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Connect the conveyor drums to the pulley

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Connect the conveyor drums to the pulley

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- The first step for rigging this conveyor belt is to get the drums rotating. So the drums are actually driven by the pulley system so I'm going to go ahead and make that visible. You can see that we have a direct connection from the axle of that pulley to the drum. So all we have to do for this is really just connect it using any number of techniques. Probably the easiest one to use is the connection editor. I'm going to go ahead and select my pulley. Then shift select the drum. Go into Windows, General Editors, Connection Editor. And we've done this before so what we have here is we have the pulley controlling the drum. So I want rotation in Z, in the pulley, so all I have to do is dig through the attributes, find rotation Z on one side and connect it on the other. When that happens they both connect. Now we can do this again with the other drum. I'm going to go ahead and select this drum here and do Reload Right and then just go back down to rotate and connect that one as well. Now…

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