Any tips for making cogs?

**Intbel** · 30 July 2006, 04:09 AM

Originally Posted by BroncoFanCam

I am having a bit of trouble with these cogs...
I am certain they are perfectly circular, but I am getting an annoying little wobble, as if they are ovals.
(Sorry for the gigantic file size.)

Okay .. I took your cogs into the workshop and repaired 'em.
Did you know your wobble took upa lotta space?
Your original file was 518 KB and is only 53 KB with the wobble removed.

http://www.intbel.com/images/TEMP/Repair.gif

**Zabon10** · 30 July 2006, 07:02 PM

I feel like an ant under a magnifying glass compared to what you guys acomplish with this software, yet it's gratifying to know that T.E.A.M. stands for Together Everybody Achieves More!!!

Kudos to all of you for the support, creativity and imagination....

**BroncoFanCam** · 30 July 2006, 11:40 PM

Originally Posted by Zabon10

I feel like an ant under a magnifying glass compared to what you guys acomplish with this software, yet it's gratifying to know that T.E.A.M. stands for Together Everybody Achieves More!!!

Kudos to all of you for the support, creativity and imagination....

Some of the stuff these guys do blows your mind doesn't it?

**kandy44** · 04 August 2006, 07:02 PM

Originally Posted by BroncoFanCam

Some of the stuff these guys do blows your mind doesn't it?

Great Stuff ...Your right!

**Seagull** · 04 August 2006, 10:36 PM

Hi Mike

Meanwhile, a cog anim of my own, using Egg's cogs.xar file

God, your a bit annoying. Posting an absolutly great cog animation like this and then going away and leaving us all hanging. Post some hints, post your 3d file, post something to help us poor wantabees to learn a bit. Throw us some of your left over scraps and tidbits and then maybe, just maybe I will be nicer to you in the next post

.............frank

**simsmj** · 05 August 2006, 08:04 AM

OK, Frank, it's a fair cop, I'll do up a tutorial over the weekend.

Meanwhile here's a taster:

It's a 4-page 4-frame swing-2 animation with the swing animation paused on frame 2, that frame from each page exported into XaraXtreme for assembly into a 4-frame animated gif. Doddle!

Hope that'll keep you going till I can supplement it with the technical drawings.

Mike

**Soquili** · 05 August 2006, 01:33 PM

It's a 4-page 4-frame swing-2 animation with the swing animation paused on frame 2, that frame from each page exported into XaraXtreme for assembly into a 4-frame animated gif. Doddle!

Ouch! Brain Sprain!!

**Seagull** · 05 August 2006, 03:38 PM

Ouch! Brain Sprain!!

No odds, I've been suffering that for years now.

Hope that'll keep you going

After reading that, I am not just going, I am running away from you as fast as I can, Mike......it not only sounds hard, it sounds scary, the only thing missing so far is the square of pie and the root of 3.....ouch, starting to babble from strained brain cells......looking forward to the tutorial
.....frank

**Intbel** · 06 August 2006, 01:49 AM

Originally Posted by simsmj

It's a 4-page 4-frame swing-2 animation with the swing animation paused on frame 2, that frame from each page exported into XaraXtreme for assembly into a 4-frame animated gif. Doddle!
Mike

Thank you for a clear, concise and most excellently written explanation.