Make water wheel with hinges

Question

Could I make little 'doors' in the water wheel that rotate with the wheel itself, but can also rotate around their own hinge?

sketch of wheel and doors

Ok, reduced to one question – Faceb Faceb Jun 08 '15 at 09:15 — Faceb Faceb, Jun 08 '15 at 09:15

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:57

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First set up your doors with the origin on the hinge edge, or us an empty. See this question for more info How do I create a hinged door?
Next Parent the little doors to the main water wheel.

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In the above gif I have added an empty that is also parented to the water wheel. That empty is used to control the rotation of all the doors with a Copy Rotation constraint on each of the doors.
Copy Rotation constraint

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:57

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answered Jun 08 '15 at 13:29

David

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