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I recently built a prop with a hinged door that I would like to have swing open with a minimum of tweaking or headaches on the part of the user.  Can someone point me to a simple tutorial for setting up the door.  I would love to set it up so that it will open/close using a dial, but I’m not sure how to do this.  Any advice/instruction/suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance….

take a look here http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/userguide/creating_content/start  and here http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE026B44096BBD507 while most of it is in relation to clothing creation the principles of rigging can be carried over to the props.