Working on my hot water solar dish design and testing BodyBuilder. When complete the dish will pump hot water/steam to a fan driven register in the house. The sun tracking structure will also hold a couple solar panels to run the pump and fan i.e, a stand alone system, just add water
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Here is a video of BodyBuilder at work, the macro is designed to do quick testing/prototyping of complex models. My work style is a little different than recommended, I add very few dimensions to my objects because it's mostly concept and design verification. I want to verify the design idea and test different parts to see if they fit. Once I understand the structure and how everything fits I go back and start to add real material sizes.
This is why I made the macro, it allows for quick try this and that, don't like it, then delete it and try again. Put some brackets up there and think about wind loads, move things around and try for a balanced system.
I will be uploading 4.1 to git and will start writing usage instructions. This is my last video on this post, hope you liked them, it's time for me to finalize the macro. It works!