With the assistance of API help and others, I can rotate a part in an assembly without using animation.  I desire to animate using a macro because I wish to tie the animation to a model that includes behavior that I cannot duplicate in motion.

Unfortunately, the gear mates are not obeyed during this time.  This issue is currently with SolidWorks support, but I thought it might be possible that someone from the larger audience knows how to fix this. 

If you unzip the attached file, you should see the second hand winding around when the macro is started.

Thanks very much...