If anyone else stumbles on this issue: I circumvented it by adding a fake link (consisting of a single sphere) to the assembly at the point of the ball joint. I set the material of this fake link to ...

A common CAD operation is to take a 2D shape and extrude it into a 3D shape. But what happens if you take a gear and replicate it along a sphere and then rotate it and do it again? As you can see i… ...