How to rig this piece for a Stewart platform?

I Figured it out :smiley:

The problem was i was overusing locked tracks and i basically had 2 on each side looking at each other. So the solution was using a “stretch to” rig for the piston instead of locked track, and then playing around with the head/tail lookat section of the locked tracks to get around the dependancy loop.

Here is the final rig :

I Think ill make this into a youtube tutorial to help everyone else that might run into this problem.

Anyway here is the file aswell, if someone needs the solution :smiley:
Working_Rig_01.blend (4.1 MB)

Also here is a testfile i set up with a top and bottom plate and some animation to illustrate how it works in an actual stewart platform :
Test_Platform.blend (4.2 MB)

-Zal