Furling animation

[dinges]

I have made a small animation showing the furling action of the elliptical furling system, viewed from various angles. Hopefully it helps to demistify it for those who have trouble understanding its operation.

Warning dial-up users, it's an 8 MB .avi file :

http://www.anotherpower.com/albums/dinges/animation_yaw_assembly.avi

It is presented 'as is' to the community. I hope it's of use to anyone.

Peter.

[dinges]

A still shot of it...

Peter.

[ghurd]

That should be in the FAQs.

Nice work Peter!

G-

[TheCasualTraveler]

Wow, thanks for taking the time to do that. I puzzled over furling for quite a bit and finnally figured it out and your animation was what I needed to confirm it. Again, thank you.

[Norm]

It does make it nice and clear how it works.

very nice !

[Ungrounded Lightning Rod]

Nice.

Would be good to have a shot from the frame of reference of the generator, showing how the tail moves aside and "takes the wind with it".

[elvin1949]

Peter

 I have a slow dialup.

Well worth the wait.

thank's

later

Elvin

[Capt Slog]

Nice.  I couldn't do anything like that and so hardly dare offer a criticism, but I found the top view the clearest and would prefer that this was first.  Just personal choice.

Excellent animation all the same, and should help a lot.

[Bobbyb]

Hi very nice animation!!

I'm curious which software did u use to make it?

[g reif]

cool, good job

what program did you do it in?

[kitestrings]

Peter,

Nicely done.  Try explaining this to someone on the grouound without using your hands, or a pad of paper...

It only needs a "foooooosh" of the blades.  You can add sound effects?

-kitestings

[SparWeb]

My guess is Solidworks.

I got to play with that for a week, then had to go back to AutoCAD...

[dinges]

Steven,

You're the winner!

Am transitioning from AutoCAD to SolidWorks and the furling mechanism was a nice challenge to model, to learn the new software. The animation was piece of cake after the model was finished.

Peter.