How to animate a spinning Coil Spring (mechanic watch)

Asked Jan 24 '21 at 13:45

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In a mechanic watch you will find such a coil spring. The spring is fixed in two points (green crosses) and has a spinning attractor at the inside of the spiral which is moving first clockwise and then after clockwise. The effect is a "breathing" coilspring. Its compressing and decrompressing from insideout.

I already tried to solve the issue with the "AnimAll" plugin to animate the edit points, but I'm not able to handle the move...

If someone want to try, I can send the hairspring

Balance Wheel Hairspring Video

edited Nov 06 '21 at 06:08

Chris

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asked Jan 24 '21 at 13:45

Fabian

Should be doable with an armature and converting the spring to a mesh. – Jeff Lange Jan 24 '21 at 18:23
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This might assist - I just did a Blender search for "Watch". -
https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/148794/can-anyone-help-me-rig-a-watch-escapement
– Edgel3D Jan 25 '21 at 03:36
Here's another resource that might help - https://youtu.be/HasNkycRZ4c?&t=768 – Jeff Lange Jan 25 '21 at 03:52

How to animate a spinning Coil Spring (mechanic watch)

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