one of my problems is that I don't have mechanism license assigned to me, the rest of the office use the three licences we have.
what I am doing is I need to create a simulation of a drilling machine we use here, it isn't detailed, but the pyhisical dimension are correct so we can test capacity, and I need to generate videos so that a suppleir can understand the operation.
I have constrained the turret and the table by using the pin option you have described in the other post
i have posted two short videos on youtube ,still a lot more work has to go into this, but at least the turret is now functional , they are at http://youtu.be/V6cgp-TNGEs and http://youtu.be/BxrSLtMgf8U
even now that the table is constriant by a mechanism pin, the rotation axis is still funny, and the wheel moving when constrained to the tables three datums, just shouldn't happen.
How I am using animation, I am setting positions by parameter, then taking snapshots, then using animation snapshot to create the keyframes.
I will try to zip the files, maybe later today, I have been assigned a more urgent task that now has priority.