Use of substitute of mechanisms for tolerance investigation of guidance mechanisms

Abstract

In spite of known methods and available tolerance software there are tolerance investigation problems of guidance mechanisms and especially convertible roof mechanisms that can be suitably solved only with special knowledge of kinematic coherences. A new method will be presented that uses substitute mechanisms to solve special tolerance investigation problems of guidance mechanisms. With the help of an example of use the new developed method will be compared with standard tolerance investigation approaches. © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009.