3D carbon nanotube device animation

pilou

Make the animation on your screen and you can use BBFlashBack Express (free) for reccord the animation on your screen

Roger

To fully understand protein folding, one need look no farther than the narrator's hair.

gurvan

Hello Pilou and first of all, thank you very much for your help
I don't know if you have seen my attached file in my previous post?
Because I actually want to be able to create an animation where a molecule (that I can draw) will move toward the nanotube and graft on it. Then I will need to add basic blocks to the nanotube's ends to simulate electrodes (for a transistor).
Is it something that can be done?
Do you know any other program enabling it? Be cause I downloaded blender to do it but I am completely lost even with the tutorials....
Thank you so much
Gurvan

pilou

You have program like SimLab Composer Animation, but you must all modelise before in program like Sketchup or other!

gurvan

Thank you Pilou.
After reading several tutorials for different programs this week-end, i'm totally depressed and lost!
I am not able to modelise anything on blender...
I tried to contact the guy who did this video (which is exactly what I would like to achieve + a carbon nanotube) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgqsX-utMcI

So hard!!

TIG

Gurvan

Here's a simple SKP method.
I made a few 'Molecules [Atoms?] as components with different connection numbers/arrangements and then simply snapped them together, moved, rotated and mirrored [scale -1] as needed, finally I painted each one some arbitrary color - I'm sure there are standards for this !
The attached SKP contains a starter kit...
The 'movie' is a simple animation export from SUp made into a gif...
The parts themselves are static but there are several tools you could try within a SKP to 'move' them around too...MoleculeUp.skp

pilou

From the video on youtube
It's not animation!
It's just transitions between scenes!
If you don't want more
You can make this easily this inside Sketchup it-self!!!

pilou

An exemple with a zoom inside
As I have free Version of Sketchup animation are only avi (very big size file) but as soon as you upload to some videos host this is converted in compress format
here it's a free host Viddler
A model by CK with some random color by me with the Random Painter by Chris Fullmer

[flash=437,368:4jjaf3gq]http://www.viddler.com/player/3f8061c5/[/flash:4jjaf3gq]

Bucky Ball.skp

gurvan

Thanks a lot, both of you!
I'm going to try it tomorrow at my lab, I hope I will be successful!
It is very nice of you to help me!!

TIG

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=344977#p344977 might also be of interest...