Fun With Gears XII

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Using a Pinterest animation as inspiration, the mechanism features a planetary system consisting of 1 sun, 1 arm, and 6 stationary planets that only translate around the sun. The "scheme" image provides a visual representation of this setup. This intriguing effect was modeled in Solidworks 2016 and rendered with Simlab Composer 7 Mechanical Edition. The resulting frames were edited in Virtualdub before being saved as AVI/X264 and BMP formats. The video was then remuxed to MP4 using MyMP4BoxGui, while gifs were created with PhotoScape. IrfanView was used for editing the renders. Additionally, the 3D-PDF, ZIM, and SIMLAB files are all animated, with the ZIM file being compatible with IOS and Android devices via the Simlab Viewer app. The model is available in various formats such as Solidworks 2016, Simlab Composer 7, DAE, STEP, IGES, Parasolid, OBJ, 3D-PDF, SketchUp, 3DS, and ZIM.