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Posted on March 15, 2024

Tilt Pad Bearing Preload Explained (Video)

Tilt Pad Bearing Preload Explained (Video)

Second of four videos comparing tilt pad bearings, this one on preload. Animations in Blender, audio in Adobe Audition.

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Filed under: Video, Animation, Engineering

Posted on March 8, 2024

Why Tilt Pad Bearings Have 5 Pads (Video)

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First of four tilt pad bearing videos: why five pads beat four or six. Made with Blender line art, the video sequencer, Audition and an AI voice clone.

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Filed under: Video, Animation, Engineering

Posted on February 15, 2024

Blender Tip: Reveal text from left to right

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Animate text appearing left to right in Blender with a material node tree: generated coordinates, a Less Than node, two keyframes and the EEVEE alpha setting.

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Filed under: Blender Tips, Animation

Posted on August 10, 2022

Safety Barrier Video

A product-reveal style animation of the safety barrier model, made in Blender and posted to YouTube.

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Filed under: 3D Models, Animation, Video

Posted on April 29, 2019

Quadcopter

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An animated quadcopter modeled in Blender after the real drone ended up in a tree. On CGTrader with a short video.

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Filed under: 3D Models, Animation, Video

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Blender, SolidWorks, photogrammetry and 3D printing notes from an engineer's workbench. Posts since 2016 on Blender, SolidWorks, photogrammetry, free 3D models and practical 3D printing. About the author.

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