Animation fun

john_mcclary

I don't have a reason to post, I just thought it looked cool

romeograham

What ??

bruce_williams

Got to be a hamster in it...

bryan_lagrange

You need a basketball goal for it to go into. Swoosh!

brucebartlett

Show Off!

john_mcclary

Lol, that's pretty much what this thread is about. I hope others will post thier cool animations also.

I'm gonna post more here as I find time to come up with more.. 

konstantin_shiriazdanov

john_mcclary

Finally,
I have an animation project that is actually for work.

I am trying something new, at beginning of the gif you will see a  little clock.
That is what is being animated, 1 revolution. Everything else is timed through relations and the wave paths.

This way I am hoping to be able to use this sub assembly as a "caned cycle" seeing's how this is one of a dozen sub assemblies all working in unison but at different intervals.
My hope is to be able to only need a simple 1 revolution on the top level assembly every time I want to 'cycle' this operation.
Which should simplify the whole process.

brucebartlett

John, you forgot to tighten the grub screw on those bearings and also missed fitting the keys

john_mcclary

brucebartlett said:

John, you forgot to tighten the grub screw on those bearings and also missed fitting the keys

Pfft, everyone's a critic... lol

There are over 7000 parts in the main assembly, I have to draw the line somewhere

brucebartlett

Seriously super impressed with your assemblies and animations

tony_459

Way cool, John! What type of machine is it?

john_mcclary

It's part of an ASRS (automated storage and retrieval system)

tony_459

Oh, wow. I didn't even machines like that existed. Now I'm curious how they work. What brand is it? Any links to machine manuals, maybe? Sometimes they have them on the web

I love how all the parts are clearly machinable. That's an expert level of parts knowledge that I don't have...

john_mcclary

We're not really a brand. We start everything from scratch and the customer is the only one who gets the manuals. 

There are dozens of ways to make an asrs. You can find a lot of example videos on youtube.

Ste_Wilson

Asrs.. Sounds in interesting. Thing that sprang to mind was old mechanical car radios with the push buttons or am I way off target? Enjoying the animations! What do you use to capture your gifs? 

stephane_fassin

Here's my small contribution.

I like the design of this 1960's Gillette Slim Twist Double Edge Razor. I find the handle shape fascinating. Been using it for decades for the three hairs of my beard.  Thought it was a good intermediate challenge to climb the OS learning curve.  Handle and rings first made with Freecad (before OS was available) and imported.  Been searching the web to figure out how the internal mechanism works (never could I have imagined the world of collectors/historians there are on the subject!).  Terminology as per http://www.gilletteadjustable.com/home.html
Activation is done through the cylindrical mate, selecting the sliding DOF option.
Getting it to activate properly was done through a lot of trial and errors so certainly not optimized.
I haven't found a rapid way of making the handle yet. (it was tediously constructed with individual sketches for every level of troughs and grooves)

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/ca8010a6984012ca3159e806/w/6c052ed55b33adb74e284e4d/e/d264fa007507decf9df21b84

john_mcclary

That's cool, I didn't realize those razors opened up like that.
I love when a constant speed input results in a bunch of different parts moving seemingly at different times and speeds