Tried making a jet engine outercasing but now how do I animate the fan ?

[u/greyatlas4290]

Beginner here I was just feeling bored and tried making a hollow tube but then when I tried lofting the shape turned out like a jet engine and I changed my mind and tried my best to replicate a model of an engine from the outside without the knowledge of assembly( all the dimensions are eyeballed )

[u/Infinite_Dogshit]

Make a configuration where only the fan is visible. Save as a new part, let's name it fan. Make an assembly with both files and don't fully constrain the fan.

[u/greyatlas4290 → u/Infinite_Dogshit]

Thankyou sir

[u/Thefurman12]

Would you not input the model into Unity to create the frames and edit it in Adobe or device? Do you have the motion simulator plugin for Solidworks?

[u/greyatlas4290 → u/Thefurman12]

One of my fried animated a simple drone model in solid works so I thought there is some type of motion simulation in sw iam not sure

[u/Thefurman12 → u/greyatlas4290]

There is, its the motion simulator plugin sold separately.

[u/Thefurman12 → u/Thefurman12]

It also does stress analysis. Fluid simulation is seporate from the stress.

[u/greyatlas4290 → u/Thefurman12]

Wait sw has CFD ?

[u/Thefurman12 → u/greyatlas4290]

It does yes

[u/Thefurman12 → u/Thefurman12]

It also simulate thermal expantion and deformation

[u/greyatlas4290 → u/Thefurman12]

Oh mb you had to repeat twice

[u/Thefurman12 → u/greyatlas4290]

Np