Omni-Directional Walker

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If the radius of holes in the rods change, the bars change accordingly, and as a result all of the relations propagate and the entire model fixes to accommodate the change in sizes. This is a toy project I did to get a handle on Pro E relations. The project was made while holding onto design intent as much as possible with the time I had.The design itself is the Theo Jansen walking mechanism. The color scheme were used from another strandbeest model on this website by Scott Bruins to make it easier to model and understand. The idea of a hamster powered walker was taken from the video attached here. In mechanics I could not find a way to get the ball to control all of the axles so the ball is static. Since this was a tool for me to get a handle on relations, it takes five or so regenerations for all of the relations to propagate. The next step will be to make it efficient and only have to regenerate once. The walking mechanism itself is also inside the file