making curve in slot for mechanism

[2ms1]

Each of the curved cut-out bits in the part shown below is a slot for a mechanism where pins with diameter equal to the width of the tracks will slide back and forth as the wheel spins.


So I need to connect the pins with slot connection. But I do not know how to create the curve that will be used for each slot connection. I need to add a curve to the center of each slot that matches it curvature.


For some reason I can't think of what the best way to do this would be. They are circular arcs so I suppose I could use a parametric equation to create circles, but I'm not sure that's the easiest and I'm not sure I'll know how to match up the ends precisely.


Anyone have any recommendations on what might be a particularly good way of going about this? <BR ="Apple-interchange-newline">






Edited by: 2ms1

 

[[-Skint-]]

Assume you just need a central curvature for the path to follow ? Cant you just create the central arc as an offset, or a copied radii. If you take the internal radii, and the external radii and go for the middle of the two lol.

 

[2ms1]

Okyeah that was really easy. For some reasonit never occured to me that it'd be possible to just use a bunch of curves from a sketch. For some reason I was under assumption that it'd want datum curves. Turns out slot connections are about as simple to create as any.