I have thought about something like that. Only a Movie countdown. Something like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_iGD-5qmSs

Which I did entirely in Blender, but with some gears added. I was thinking something steampunkish.

--- On Tue, 12/9/08, Philip Stubbs <philip@...2526...> wrote:

From: Philip Stubbs <philip@...2526...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape to Blender:Planetary gears To: chrysalis_reborn@...12..., "Inkscape User Community" inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 10:38 AM 2008/12/9 Elwin Estle <chrysalis_reborn@...12...>:

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Original gears made in Inkscape with the gear effect,

then the .svg's are imported into Blender, extruded and animated.

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First attempt, 2 gears:

http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/5567/planetaryxl1.gif

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Second attempt, 5 gears (1 annulus gear, three

planetary gears, and a sun gear). Had a heckuva time figuring out the rotation for the central gear. Run the vid twice. For some reason, the first time it runs way too fast.

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http://vimeo.com/2425916

Third attempt, Complete clock mechanism: ......I look forward to that :-)

-- Philip Stubbs

Claus Cyrny wrote:

Elwin Estle wrote:

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Original gears made in Inkscape with the gear effect, then the .svg's are imported into Blender, extruded and animated.

First attempt, 2 gears:

http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/5567/planetaryxl1.gif

How did you animate this? Did you import the SVG into Blender?

Sorry, I should have read your post more thoroughly! ;-)

Claus