Hello everyone!
I’m currently working on a 3D model of a wind turbine and I’ve run into a bit of a challenge. I want to set up a linked chain so that when the nacelle (the part of the turbine housing the generator and gears) rotates, the hub and blades follow in a realistic manner. Same when the hub rotated the blades follow as they rotate as a unit. You get the point
My objective is to create an animation where wind speeds and directions as parameters that would result in realistic movements of orientation of nacelle, rotation of turbine’s hub and the yaw to adjust the direction of the blades
Here’s what I’ve done so far: (attached 3dm file)
windturbine.3dm (882.2 KB)
- Modeled the tower, nacelle, hub, and blades separately.
- Added the pivot points
However, I’m unsure about the next steps. I’d prefer to avoid complex scripting inside grasshopper to correctly link these components. Are there simpler, more straightforward methods within Rhino to achieve this? I don’t have Bongo which as a Inverse Kinematics options and I am not sure if the method shared by Daniel Piker using Kangaroo (Inverse kinematics - #2 by DanielPiker) is the right approach (i never used Kangeroo before)
Thank you all in advance for your time and help!
Awesome and thanks for sharing your definition