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Gage Ball in Cone

mdobb829
I have a Pallet that has (4) cones. There is a dimension from the bottom of the Pallet over an Ø85.000 MM gage ball. Is there a way to create the gage ball tangent to the cone? Cone.pdf
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  • Didn't know you could find a sphere tangency circle like that. Not sure what you mean by "construct a point offset half the diameter from the circle." The center of the sphere will not necessarily be at any easily predictable distance from the tangency circle center. You'll need to do some calculation to figure out where it is.

    I just did a test and the sphere calculation is different than the diameter calculation

    CIR1 =FEAT/CIRCLE,CARTESIAN,IN,NO
    THEO/<8.9134,0.4921,-1.067>,<0,0,1>,0.483
    ACTL/<8.9134,0.4921,-1.067>,<0,0,1>,0.483
    CONSTR/CIRCLE,CONE,CON1,SPHERE,0.5

    CIR2 =FEAT/CIRCLE,CARTESIAN,IN,NO
    THEO/<8.9134,0.4921,-1.0352>,<0,0,1>,0.5
    ACTL/<8.9134,0.4921,-1.0352>,<0,0,1>,0.5
    CONSTR/CIRCLE,CONE,CON1,DIAMETER,0.5

    See the attached screenshot to see what I mean by sphere construction of a circle. It constructs a circle where a sphere of a given size would be tangent. That's why the diameter measures smaller than the sphere diameter. If you construct a point offset from the constructed circle by the radius value it will be where the top of the sphere is.
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  • Didn't know you could find a sphere tangency circle like that. Not sure what you mean by "construct a point offset half the diameter from the circle." The center of the sphere will not necessarily be at any easily predictable distance from the tangency circle center. You'll need to do some calculation to figure out where it is.

    I just did a test and the sphere calculation is different than the diameter calculation

    CIR1 =FEAT/CIRCLE,CARTESIAN,IN,NO
    THEO/<8.9134,0.4921,-1.067>,<0,0,1>,0.483
    ACTL/<8.9134,0.4921,-1.067>,<0,0,1>,0.483
    CONSTR/CIRCLE,CONE,CON1,SPHERE,0.5

    CIR2 =FEAT/CIRCLE,CARTESIAN,IN,NO
    THEO/<8.9134,0.4921,-1.0352>,<0,0,1>,0.5
    ACTL/<8.9134,0.4921,-1.0352>,<0,0,1>,0.5
    CONSTR/CIRCLE,CONE,CON1,DIAMETER,0.5

    See the attached screenshot to see what I mean by sphere construction of a circle. It constructs a circle where a sphere of a given size would be tangent. That's why the diameter measures smaller than the sphere diameter. If you construct a point offset from the constructed circle by the radius value it will be where the top of the sphere is.
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