Rubiks Cube mate / animation

brucebartlett

That's crazy but very cool

konstantin_shiriazdanov

If you designed only those trajectories themselves it would already deserved admiration 

owen_sparks

Those are some funky looking Christmas decorations there.

john_mcclary

After nearly a month of very tedious stress. It has finally come to the end!

That you everyone for keeping this thread alive with me. I may have abandoned it earlier if nobody had any interest. Even though there were many times I wanted to  

The manual cube assembly does work, but very lagy, just allow it time to calc each move, and you can manipulate each face independently. Just be sure to select each of the pieces for each turn

Enjoy the final video of this series and feel free to copy (link below)
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/936dc91e3f3998485e1f8dfe/w/4d6927be70009dc330c213a3/e/bf77cbf85325eff88c8a0c26


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMTeEhbCPzo

3dcad

    

Wow, it actually runs great! 

And I'm glad you got this out of your system, I'm sure you will be better father, husband and citizen now

Definitely a model of the month (or even model of the year). Onshape should make a blog post of this, I've already had fantasies how to implement 'your technology' to animate furniture assemblies in Onshape.

MBartlett21

Maybe ask @NeilCooke

brucebartlett

Great work John. Glad you finished this.  You are now probably also the biggest comput power user on the Onshape server. 

john_mcclary

I think that still goes to that single part studio conveyor showcased in philip's performance video XD

brucebartlett

Ok, I haven't seen that one, I'll have to take a look. Does it show examples of workflows to speed models up?

john_mcclary

Yea, some pretty good ones, a few of which I used in this document. Worth a look.

john_mcclary

It's 3am... I can't sleep...

So, Let's try and make animations in Onshape even simpler... Remember how I had the sketch grid, and a crap load of sketches for each path.
Let's try it in a spreadsheet this time.
And how about some easing curves to smooth out the animation steps as well 
While we're at it, lets get rid of all that duplication of effort and minimize tabs and sketches and make it re-usable:


Sneak Peek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqgWhkS6OPA

steve_maietta

@john_mcclary
  Very inspiring.  I'm working with students this month dealing with all sorts of mechanisms and animations.  (Hence all these posts as of late).
In the rubix cube project, a few questions if you don't mind.
0- How do you get the "pusher" (pointing towards the end of the track). to move the pointer (pointing down towards track)
 1- How do you get the pointers to stay vertical (pointing down at the track) as they slide along (tangent) the track?
2- How do you translate their vertical motion to a rack and pinion mate?  If I put a slider mate on the pointer it can go up and down, but then gets locked into place on the track. No slider mate, then I cant use the R&P relation..

The pointer I noticed has two mate connectors at one of its corners,,,  I assuming these help in the above situations?

thanks for clarifying this a bit!!!  
~Steve

Document I'm using to try this out

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/bec83899b97e0f93439c33bf/w/855b74a0d979f601d5d530f6/e/3d9c45deef0239701c47e85e

john_mcclary

I have a vertical slider attachedtto a fixed part or each axis of each part. That same part also has a Tangent that touches the guide track.

One of the videos above explains the entire process, it's a long videe, but i walk through adding one of the animation steps

john_mcclary

john_mcclary said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMtNDocbJKE

brayden_mcdonald

For me the animation doesn't work why is that maybe?

john_mcclary

It takes a minute or so to start moving