Mechanical Animation software – cinema 4D

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    Ady1
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      @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

       

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      #702405
      Andy Stopford
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        @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

        #702460
        Andy_G
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          @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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