MECH-A Sunday - Ball Design / Motion Animation / Visualization / CAD File (1/2)

Hello Students Community,

This MECH-A Sunday I want to show you ball design, motion animation and visualization on SOLIDWORKS  and  SOLIDWORKS Visualize 

This post also first design of  2024 Project Team. As 2024 Project Team, me and my teammates aim to create many different posts about SolidWorks, xApps, SolidWorks Visualize and etc. and in this process we wanted to share our experience how differences between SolidWorks and xDesign/ xShape and also wanted to show you several knowledges. I also wanted to thank our mentor @RP

This post will contain Ball Design / Motion Animation / Visualization / CAD File

 

Visualization on SolidWorks Visualize

 

Motion Animation of Ball

GIF version

 

Motion Animation Preparing Process

Information about how to make this ball motion animation

  • Gravity feature added in -y direction with 125 mm/s^2 accelarition
  • Added linear motor feature that decreases from 150 mm/s to 50 mm/s on the x-axis.
  • Added rotatory motor feature on the bal, decreasing from 100 RPM to 20 RPM.
  • Solid body contact feature added between ball and surface without friction, without material, with elastic properties: restitution coefficient = 0.8

     

The motion process of the camera

 

Camera transitions demonstration on SolidWorks Visualize

Some information about the rendering of animation

Rendering Software: SOLIDWORKS Visualize 

Video Quality: 1920 x 1080 

Total Elapsed Time: nearly 3 hours

Pass Count: 250

 

Demonstration on SolidWorks Platform

 

CAD File

 

To be continued ...

 

Edu