@Marcel_Rijsmus gave me an idea to make a solar system in Dynamo…
I know this may sound a little stupid but I didn’t quite realise the scale… I thought, “lets scale it loads and it will work”… Well, it doesn’t really.
The distances are so huge that the planet sizes just become dots (so I unplugged the spheres).
I got bored after mars and didn’t add any moons but it’s slightly fun to watch for 20 seconds.
Maybe someone can suggest how I could improve it.
Gif shows planets orbiting without the orbit showing and then with the orbit showing.
I colour coded it: Mercury is grey, Venus : green, Earth : blue and Mars is red.
Dynamo file attached.
orbit.dyn (80.2 KB)
EDIT: Sun is wrong size in that. Should be 695508 Km.
I’ve tried making the planets and sun larger by a factor of 10 compared to the orbit distances but they’re still showing as points.
I tried doubling that too, and still just points…