If you want to show the teeth of a Belt / Chain you will have to attend to the PCD ( Pitch Core Diameter ) . To get the size of the pulleys / sprockets . You will see I have cheated by having the Teeth animated with the Belt and the core of the pulley running separate . The main reason being I could not mesh them correctly . Obviously I should have selected the rotation speed before the animation speed . In the old days what we used to do is film stuff high speed and analyse it frame by frame to see how out out sync we were . Even at 30 FPS you get good data .
As I mentioned before you will do yourself a favour and not show too much meshing .
Nice bike by the way . Proper Job .
thank you
I drew the bike to visualize my restorations beforehand.
if i find a nice old frame, it’s fun to put it back on the road.
since i drew every component myself, i can now use the individual elements well for this clockwork.
In the places where I can’t get the graphics right, there will be suitable, shapely covers afterwards 
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Looking forward to the Shapley covers . They used to do that with the chains to stop them spraying black oil all over the Town .
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Because of the short animation, the timing and the geometry, I had to adapt my planning.
the gears are all ready and should all work good with a chain.
The big one in the middle has 60 teeth, so it makes a full rotation per minute.
the others are each half.
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Reminds me of a toy I highly desired in childhood (and never got): the Visible V8!
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I would point you to similar topic by @bradtc
[Watch Faces] Chain Drive, Tube, Steel Barrel - Show Your Style! - FACER Community
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thanks for the hint
I’ll read it later in peace.
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plus / minus 0.01mm may vary
but for now I’m satisfied
now i can think about the right colors for the gears, screws etc
I’m just wondering how much longer the pc will keep up
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That’s quite an elaborate gear matrix there @SR-Design.vision! Looks great! If you can get that all moving in sync with one another, that would be really really impressive! I suspect if you have the skills to turn the chain into a sequence, it might be easiest. The gears can just have an appropriate spin set to them. Nice!
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the idea is to split the gears in 3 levels.
level 1 the teeth are animated with the chain.
level 2 are the spokes, these are rotated with the appropriate coding.
level 3 are the shapes in between with the light effects.
these are fixed.
so I don’t have to do without correct shadows and light effects.
at least that’s the idea.
we’ll see if everything works at the end.
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It will be intresting to know how many Man Hours were spent on this when it is Done.
Actually everything is correct, but I can’t get rid of the slight twitching.
maybe that’s the point where the loop starts all over again.
6 frames…
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Sadly all I can see moving is the two sprockets with 5 spokes . You get jumps on the Simulators . The only way to check it is on a watch . Red is very recessive but I get the Point . As it is not inspectable at the moment I can not check the maths . You might have to look at round, ceil or floor.
I was just working on the wheels
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Oh wow . I see some slippage between the sprockets and the cores That can be sorted out . Hel fire that is some chain . I think there will always be a jump using a sequence on something like this . I was doing some work on Real Time Image Animation . I will mod the test and post it here .
Amazing work . Well done . Got to get a Bigger Watch . Thanks for switching Inspection ON .
