After a few days wading through a lot of total overkill, I found
  this. Like #happywheels ? Well this does the same #physics but
  you can really make and control stuff. It's what I was looking
  for - and to think I downloaded one CAD program after another...
  looked at programming hooks and things... but all I wanted to be
  able to do is draw easily and animate how it works. This does it
  - and its fun.