Animation of Rotations

[microelly2]

FreeCAD is for me not only a tool to design parts but also a way to demonstrate the motion of parts inside of machines. This is a short example to explain the Property Placement.Rotation.
The green Arm rotates along the x-axis 90° and then along the y-Axis 90° . The red one rotates first along the y axis and then along the z-axis both times 90°.
And at the last the yellow makes only one rotation along the axis (1, 1, 1) with 120°.

This is exactly the Placement.Rotation value of all three arms you will find in the property tab (under the condition that the shoulder is the middle of the world).

The complete animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzm7gPX ... kakjRclz2w

[clintonsam75]

Thank you for sharing your project. Animation is always cool. But, if you post the source code here as well, I think people would appreciate your contribution even more.

[quick61]

https://github.com/microelly2/Animation

but it's not quite ready for general release yet. The code is full of links to his local directory and you will need to go in and do some editing to get it to display all the icons and such on your machine. I did that tonight and hopefully tomorrow I'll have some time to give it a good look over.

If you want to see some really shiny stuff, take a look at this one - http://youtu.be/VYT3fxCOhmY

Mark

[clintonsam75]

Oh, is that what this is about? There's an actual animation workbench now? I just saw this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9nEO5Ou9yA

[bejant]

The complete animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzm7gPX ... kakjRclz2w

Quite cool, I really like that second animation (the one with the cutaways of the green vessel containing the red substance)!

I'm looking forward to release of the Animation WB!

[microelly2]

On the way to generate documentation videos I have added
a billboard - a text element which reads text from files depending on the frame number, so text can comment the motions
and a rectangle with the ability to show pictures frame dependend too

there are still some problems with transparency in png

here the demo
http://youtu.be/lY855FrbyFA
and the structure of the model