Animate the path of a panel from a folding door

ArgaWoW

Hello,

I am have to visualisation the opening of a folding door. The panel have two running gears the must move arround the corner.

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Any Idea how to archive this?

Thanks a lot for any suggestion

Arga

ntxdave

I do not have time to try it now but, I think if you use the Animator plugin and capture each of the positions you have in your image as a key frame, you will achieve what you want.

You might also look in the Animator Beta thread you might see something like what you want ( it is a large thread with a lot of posts)

ntxdave

ArgaWoW, I think I have found something that will help you. Look at this thread.

HornOxx

Hi - if the desired animation doesn't need to be too sophisticated, a simple gif animation, equipped with some door positions like shown in your picture, might be sufficient? I´ll link an example, done this way with only 10 frames, running back and forth...
https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=397&t=63826&p=659064&hilit=Bobby#p659064
(otherwise, Dave's animator suggestion above would be better)