Infeed Screw Laboratory
Design a variable-pitch infeed or timing screw, watch containers move through it in a rigid-body simulation, and export STL or STEP.
Product pages are in English.
Highlights
- Pitch profile set through the entry, transfer and exit zones of the screw
- Containers simulated as rigid bodies pushed by the screw and carried by belt friction
- Transfer statistics, including tipped products
- Screw body exported as STL or STEP in millimetres, from the same section as the view
- Save and reopen your inputs on your computer or in your cloud
A question it answers
What pitch profile takes containers arriving shoulder to shoulder on a belt and hands them to the starwheel on a fixed pitch, without tipping them?What you put in
Root and outer diameter, length, the pitch profile through entry, transfer and exit, hand, an optional twin-screw arrangement, belt speed, and product diameter, height, mass and friction.
What you get
3D screw with live product transfer, transfer statistics, STL and STEP download, and a validation list keyed by stable issue codes rather than by prose.
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