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Getting a lot of views but no responses... Initially I was going to treat this as a dynamics problem... But now I see it more as a statics problem since I'm focusing on stall torque. Overall, I do not want to damage the motor but I still want to place maximum force on the ball... I understand...

Something that helped me become "better" at CAD modeling is taking ordinary objects and modeling them. You'll notice a lot of the stuff you learned in class can be used in some way or another. Practice is key.

I am trying to design a certain mechanism. It is basically a rotating tube(a DC motor is driving it) attached to a motor at one end. There is a spring attached to just about the midpoint of the rectangular tube. The tube will spin and start stretching the spring. once it reaches the other...