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Playing with Blender For Artists (Bforartists) - Easier way to learn Blender?
vtsteam:
Looks like it's a contrast reduction, instead of dimming. Notice the blue background has lower saturation, typical of lowering a contrast control.
BillTodd:
I'm impressed by your progress. After years if using solid works , I found blender incomprehensible.
sorveltaja:
This is partly off-topic about mechanical contraption, that I once tried to build to find out how it works, by using 3D printed parts. But in practice, if memory serves, there was way too much accumulated friction to achieve usable, or actually enjoyable result to tinker with.
There are many variations, and from what I've read, this is a Wilson type preselector gearbox. It also has different flavors; some have more gears than others:
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So, after watching few more tutorials, this is an attempt to simulate associated parts in Blender. So far, I think I've managed to figure out how to engage gears 1, 2 and 3:
Wheel with two holes represents the output, while small, animated cube imitates gear shifting brakes.
What comes to gears in the above animation, no, I didn't model them in Blender. I guess it can be done, but some tools are just pain in the butt to work with. Instead, they were imported from a project I did in Rhinoceros. Additional objects, like linkages between gears were done in Blender, though.
Brass_Machine:
Very cool. I tried blender and had no luck. I do use Alibre almost weekly though.
sorveltaja:
This is again sort of an off-topic one.
Blender 2.92 is the last version that works in Win 7. It has far fewer functions, and it doesn't seem to be as stable as the newest versions.
That's why I've had to use Win10. But the more I use W10, the more I want to avoid using it.
One option that's left, was to install Linux. As I'm not too much into learning it (Linux) at the moment, I tested several distros in VM, to see which one has most easily configurable (or "windowsy") settings.
One that stood out was Pop OS. It has a GUI that imitates W11, having options to customize it a bit more easily available(although some settings require some serious searching). Plus it supports browsers like Brave, Opera, and Waterfox, which I've constantly used in Windows.
It also has a version that has Nvidia drivers included, and that's what I'm using.
It might not be the best of the best option, but so far, after few days of using it, Blender has worked without problems (as well as the browsers mentioned), and it feels that it could be good enough alternative to W10:
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What comes to running Blender on Linux in VM, only a lot older version of Blender worked; newest one installed just fine, but gave an error message and simply refused to run.
I guess one has to have a PC with quite beefy specs, and to know how to configure hardware for VM for that kind of CPU-heavy tasks.
So, what a better excuse to utilize a moped class PC, than to install software on bare metal instead?
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