A closer look at chains

Inventor has a pretty good roller chain creator, but really only creates a solid representation of the chain (or a sketch) leaving the user to fill in the actual links. I found quite a nice tool to help though the “Roller Chain Generator for Inventor”...

Omnichain render

So it’s reasonably simple to animate an object following a path, but then patterning that object so there are several hundred all moving along the same path feels a little trickier :p   I followed this tutorial :...