Nevermind I figured it out.

For anyone else who didn't catch it at first looking at tutorials, after joining the hinge to the parts it needs to be grouped to one of the parts, then it will follow the motion of that part.

Hello all,

I'm experienced using sketchup and wanted to make a complex hinge mechanism. So I've just installed the sketchyphysics plugin but I'm having a problem with the joint objects. I've scoured Google and these forums but don't see anyone else having this issue so I'm sorry if I missed one and this has been answered before.

Any joint I make behaves statically regardless of what state I use for it. That is, they will not move in the xyz axis and nothing attached to them responds to gravity.

My current model is just 3 "bars" hinged together. The two on the ends will spin about the hinge but the one in the middle is locked in place by two unmoving hinges. Any clue what I'm doing wrong?

Sketchup Make 15.3.330 32-bit & SketchyPhysics 3.5.6.

Thank you,
Sythem