Hey all,

I've been searching for days now to understand how I can get a motion study based on a chain to work....

My application is a chain conveyor with buckets attached like this:

http://www.anexmfg.com/images/products/belevator.gif

In my motion study I want the conveyor to move the buckets around the path and drop items into the buckets with gravity (so keyframed animation wont work).

I thought the belt and chain feature was ideal but it turns out the belt does not rotate with the pulleys so the buckets didn't move. I also found links to animated chains which use mates to follow paths but these were only good for key framed animation.

I have to believe this is possible and hope you can share some insight on what to do.

Thanks,

Mark.