About ready to light the fuse.....Animation wierdness #2

[DeanLong]

Keep an eye open for the mushroom cloud developing over South Florida in about an hour.

To avoid a crisis I need to get answers to the following questions:

#1 WHY does my servo motor speed driving my gear traindecrease when a transparency is applied to part in the assembly?

#2 WHERE is the Save Animation to Mpeg function hidden now in Creo2?Wouldn'tit be simple to add a big friggin "SAVE TO MPEG" icon in plain sight? Hell we have big friggin icons for EVERYTHING ELSE...why not that?

#3 WHY did I have RECREATE the transparencyat time waypoints ofan unrelated partwithout using the MDO playback import for the "Ignore Surface Properties" to stay unchecked?

#4 WHEN does retirement start to alieviate me from this STOOOOOOPIDITY?

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[kimndave9]

Blender. Even if you don't use it, it shows how animation could work.

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[DeanLong]

David,

Is Blender still open source?

[kimndave9]

Blender is so open that when you go to select a command on a menu, it can (often) show you the code that it will execute to run that command. I swear,if the Blender people ever get the idea to create a decent drawing package it will easily compete with PTC, just as soon as PTC creates a decent drawing package. Foghorn Leghorn voice - "That's a joke, I say, that's a joke, son."

From Blender.org - Blender is an open source project licensed under the GNU GPL. All code is written in C, C++ and Python.

Python, why is it always Python? (Indiana Jones fans, anyone?)
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[DeanLong]

David,

I had that very thought a while ago. Give me a 2D drawing function within Blender and I might give it a look!

I wonder what it would take to get an open source MCAD solution off the ground? I mean judging by the awesomefunctions within Blender, static CAD models has to be a piece of cake.