Can anyone give me some advice? Million thanks!
Have you modeled your object in Blender? I think after you’ve modeled the object in the program, you can try it to see if it works for you. I think after Constraints, it is a Driver that can help with animate the object.
If this doesn’t work for you, try alternative means to animate your object.
If you want to animate with IK constraints, you can try and go to Pose Mode (if you can), and move a target for the bone. But, you need to first copy the transformation to a new bone chain before you can make options.
For the options, you can try Pole Target for rotation if you want to open the object and do an IK stretch by enabling it.
But if you only want to animate and not make poses for it, you can wait for another user to help you since I’m fairly inexperienced with Blender at the moment. I may not be the best help for this, but I do want to help as much as I can.
Sure! thanks by the way, I think I would like to animate it for sure.

