Hello, I'm new to here and FreeCad but I'm trying my best. I have an assembled sketch that I want to animate on FreeCad 0.18. I'm not sure how to do it, if I should use exploded assembly or something else.
I simply want to animate the two gears I have in the sketch. The larger gear I'd like to rotate 90 degrees clockwise. Which means the smaller gear may rotate a couple times. At the end I want to record it so it plays like an avi. file. Please help.
I tried to download Assembly 4 but it doesn't work with my version.
Also I suppose it's possible to use Python to code it but I have never used Python before so that may be difficult.
Animation help
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Re: Animation help
Hi and welcome to the forum!
If you are not familiar with python programming you may try the animation workbench. I'm not sure it works with 0.19, so please report back.
If you are not familiar with python programming you may try the animation workbench. I'm not sure it works with 0.19, so please report back.
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Hi chrisb! Oh my God thank you so much! That worked great! My animation isn't perfect but I didn't have it downloaded as a workbench so I couldn't use it before. Thanks so much! You have no idea have you have helped me!
I watched some Youtube videos on how to use it and now I'm all set! I've attached my finished project~
Now I might add some more animations or make the bar on the larger gear move too. Thanks again chrisb!!
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Also I need to figure out how to make it into an avi. file.... I'm not sure if I can do that
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OK. I downloaded the "Active presenter" screen recorder app and you can export the video as an avi. file. Solved my own issue!Orangeblossm wrote: ↑Fri May 08, 2020 3:40 amAlso I need to figure out how to make it into an avi. file.... I'm not sure if I can do that
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Thanks go, of course, to the creator of this workbench. Did you use it with 0.18 or 0.19?
I don't think you can do this directly. You need a program which can grab part of the screen and create an avi. This depends on the operating system you use.Orangeblossm wrote: ↑Fri May 08, 2020 3:40 am Also I need to figure out how to make it into an avi. file.... I'm not sure if I can do that
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That's a great program; I used it to make my video tutorials some years ago when I was using Windows XP...