Mechanical Animation software – cinema 4D

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

cinema4D

Pretty next level if you haven’t come across it before, especially for explaining complex mechanical movement

A minimum of windows 10 needed to do this stuff if you’re interested

Pricing looks like $20 a year… hmm

https://garethwashere.tumblr.com/

https://www.maxon.net/en

 

[Andy StopfordParticipant @andystopford50521]

It comes in a little more expensive than that:

https://www.maxon.net/en/buy

However, if you want to do this kind of stuff, Blender will cost you nothing:

Homepage

and can do pretty much everything that C4D can.

One thing to note with these Digital Content Creation platforms is that they use mesh modelling to create objects, and this comes with dimensional approximations which are not present with 3D CAD programs. You can model something e.g. an engine, but you won’t be able re-create that exactly in reality and be sure that it will fit together (this is mainly a problem with curved surfaces); you could certainly produce a satisfactory .stl file to make a pattern for casting though, and this might be easier than using CAD.

edit: I don’t know why it just says homepage there, the link works though

[Andy_GParticipant @andy_g]

FWIW Fusion 360 “personal” (i.e. free) will animate mechanical assemblies accurately (provided that they are drawn correctly)

Simple example:

 

 

 

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