Skip to main content

Exploding FootBall made and animated in ProE - Step 01



This is one of the fun I had the other day and thought I would share with you. Its not finished yet, but I thought of keeping it updated here as I progress. Check this out.






Steps:

I had to model a Football in ProE. This is an assembly which has only two unique parts. One is a Hexagon and the other is a Pentagon. Both of these has the same edge size. As you can observe, every Pentagon is surrounded by 5 Hexagons and every Hexagon is surrounded by 3 pentagons and three hexagons.

The catch here was to get the correct size of the edge for a given ball diameter. I am sure you would be able to find a mathematical relation for that. But I wanted to derive that by geometry. That was interesting.

Then I had to assemble the whole ball in mechanism. Each part is driven by a servo motor. I can control each part by driving the motor.

So this is the first capture that I made.. Further I want to move each element sequentially and rhythmically.. or kind of bouncing like music bars.. or kind of Matrix style..

I will keep posting all the interesting outputs.. Hope i get enough time to work on this.. Keep watching for more on this..

bye for now..

Link for downloading the video:



Labels:

Comments

Nate said…
Nicely done, I am currently working with mechanisms and animations and was wondering how to create an "exploded" assembly animation. Does each component need to be controlled by servos in order to get this result?
Wednesday, March 04, 2009 11:47:00 pm
Unknown said…
hey,

thanks very much for your excellent effort.

it will help me allot in my project if you can send me assembly file of your soccer ball creation.

jokletATgmailDOTcom
joklet@gmail.com

i,ll be great full to you.

actually i have almost same project but with different panel formate. might you can help me in that too.

Best Regards,
Wednesday, April 06, 2011 1:59:00 am
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

TreeView Structure in Excel VBA

TreeView is extreamly useful in specific cases but it can be bit tricky sometimes to implement.  Last Few days I was working on a TreeView Structure and thought I will share the knowledge I gained...  This post takes you through the basic operations to create and operate a TreeView. It will be like the Folder tree window of the windows explorer.  Moreover, you can have it dynamically updated based on the data in excel.... Here we go..
7 comments
[ Read more » ]

Controlling LED through Octolapse for 3D print timelapse

Today's post is about one of the 3D Printing adaptation that I learned. This is specifically about how to control an LED light automatically through OctoLapse so that it is switched on only when the timelapse photo is taken. Just as a background, I have been learning to use 3D printer and its customizations options for a few months now and was a lot of learning since then. The best thing was OctoPi, a platform for controlling the 3D printer and the many plugin options that are developed by the community.  Most of them are like open source. Today we will discuss specifically about an adaptation to one such plugin, OctoLapse. OctoLapse is the plugin for taking timelapse photos, with many options for further customisations. One of the best timelapse method is taking photo after each layer is complete, by moving the head out of the way. You can use standard Pi Camera or a DSLR, which is great to get good resolution videos. One small flash back before we dive into the topic.  I keep the
Post a Comment
[ Read more » ]

PTC Creo | my Mapkeys for free

I have created a list of frequently used mapkey shortcuts for the PTC Pro Engineer Creo. This is the macro equivalent in creo.  I am copying them below.If you need them, copy paste the content to the "config.pro" file in your startup folder. My favourites are highlited and greatly improves the workflow.. For ex, to reach MEASURE. need to go to another menu and click.  Instead, maypkey from any selected menu on the ribbon will work.. Thats wonderful to me... Also, Edit Sketch (ES) is overloaded and will work for Extrusion, Revelution, Sweep etc.. So is aa, pp, zz..  really helps me a lot.. Hope you will start using them as well and get benefited! Let me know in comments, your feedback and issues.... Sketch View           > sv Show and Erase        > se Working Directory     > wd Hiddel Line View      > hi Close (quit) Window   > qw Measure               > mm Erase Session         > ee Insert Mode @ Sel     > is Cancel Insert Mode    > ic edit Sketch
Post a Comment
[ Read more » ]