This "ON SHAPE" program (cloud based and FREE! D ) looks like the ticket. I just want a visual and accurate representation of gears, levers, chains, belts, rods, actuators, etc. A lot of the animation software focuses on games, with animated characters who fight battles. I am currently looking at ON SHAPE, which seems very good, but I won't know until I delve deeper into it. I have DesignSpark Mechanical, Google SketchUp, and a few others. I have spent the entire day on this computer, looking at dozens of software offerings. I have this CRAZY idea in my head, and lots of time, lots of tools and (almost) enough money to accomplish it now. This will be a BIG project that wraps an entire 32'圆0' workshop with a moving, mechanical DO NOTHING that is for the sole purpose of eye candy, and to attract people to my shop. I would appreciate any help finding the software that will let me design this thing, and create the DXF files to cut the skeletal frames on my CNC plasma table, and plan and make the various components. sort of, by moving the mechanism (n) distance and taking another photo of the screen, and then the animation happens when you play them together, but that is VERY time consuming. I can DRAW all of this easily with my DesignEdge software, and get all of the measurements to create the skeletal frames, etc., but DesignEdge does not have the ability to animate the design. The arm would move something else, that would in turn affect another component. Įxample: I need something that will allow me to create a gear, wrap it with a chain, drive a second gear that will move an arm attached to the side (think locomotive). I want to plan out a complex mechanical array of things, gears, chains, levers, fulcrums, etc., and design and animate it on the PC before I start cutting metal and other materials. This is sort of what I seek, but I am looking for something with more umph! I found some software called "Linkage" which allows me to draw various things, link them together and then animate the contraption to see how it moves.
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