Hey everyone! It's not often I get to post in this section, so this is awesome!
This is an indexing mechanism that I modeled several years ago after I had graduated. I saw this animation by Gareth Fowler:
http://garethwashere.tumblr.com/post/124060065152/150716 and wanted to try to make it myself. This gif was my only reference, so it was interesting to get all of the geometry figured out. I wanted to 3D print it so once I had the geometry figured out I set to making it so I could print and assemble it.
I recently had some free time and decided I wanted to try animating it. I made some visual changes to clean the look up some since it didn't need to be assembled. The animation was created in SolidWorks (with no shortage of frustration, I might add

). I rendered two versions with some materials that were fun to make. The last image is a photo of the printed version, just for kicks.
Hope you like it!
