How to Animate 3D Gears in Maya

Maya Mechanics 1 minute read

This Free video tutorial will explain how to animate 3d gears. After this tutorial you will be able to model and animate gear system for your machines.

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Animate Gears

You must have objects before rotating them on specific attribute for a mechanical motion. So,

  • Open your file which you have saved in part 1
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  • Select one gear object
  • Set the Menus to Dynamics Menu Set
  • Go to Soft/Rigid Bodies Menu > Create Active Rigid Boy options
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  • In option’s window Go to Edit Menu and reset settings
  • Click create
  • Open up the Channel Box
  • Change the Initial Spine Y value to 100 or whatsoever speed you need
  • Change the center of Mass to 0, 0, 0 in X,Y,Z
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  • Play the animation from Playback controls
  • Next, select the second gear object
  • Repeat the same things but this time change the Initial Spine Y to -100 or whatsoever speed you need.

    • Note: it is necessary to change the value this time in minus (-)

  • Done
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  • Play the animation