Procedure for Roller Chain

To create the roller chain I first had to create 5 different parts which were Roller link plate, bushing, roller, pin link plate, and the pin. To create roller link plate I used the extrude function and created 2 circles with required dimensions and using the line too I joined the outer two circles and left 2 inner circles alone. Then using the delete unwanted segments tool I delete the unwanted lines and came up with roller link plate with the thickness of 0.04 in. This was also the pink link plate. To create the bushing I again used the extrude tool and created two circle, inner (0.16) and outer (0.20) and gave the required dimensions. Also as required, I smoothened the bottom and the top edges of the tool and completed the extrusion with the height of 0.34 in. Next I created the roller with the outer circle of 0.3 and inner circle of 0.2 and the height of 0.23 in. For this also smoothed the bottom and the top sharp edge to 45x0.003. Last part that I had to create was the pin. I created this part using the revolve tool with the height of .520 in and smooth edges like before. For all these parts the material was steel. I put that in parameter for each of the part. Now I had to assemble all these part together to make one part. For that I opened a new file and using the assemble tool I first opened roller link plate with default constraint then using assemble tool I opened the bushing part. Using different tool I put that busing part in one of the whole and using repeat function I filled up the other whole with another bushing part. Next I opened up a roller part and placed it over the bushing over one of the holes and using repeat tool I placed another roller part over another bushing part on another hole. The distance offset was 0.01 between the plate and roller. To cover up, I put the roller link plate over these two holes, which completed the sub-assembly. Here offset was 0.005 in. Also, edited the way the exploded view looks. Next was to create sub-assembly using pin and the plate. For that first I imported the pin link plate and then imported the pin. I placed the pin inside one of the holes and made sure it was place perfectly without any errors. Using the repeat tool I placed another pin in the second hole. Again edited the way the exploded view looked. After that I created a total assembly of the roller chain.

For this I opened a new file and named it roller chain. First I imported the roller link that I created using plate and bushing. And then I imported the pin link and placed the pin link over roller link making sure that all the joints and the sittings were perfectly done. After this I imported another roller link and placed the pin part inside this new roller part making sure it was placed the right way. Using repeat tool I placed another pin part in this assembly. Now to complete the assembly I placed pin link plate at the bottom and then using global interference tool I made sure that there were no errors in this assembly.