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• The Exploded Assembly Presentation can be animated to show how the components and subassemblies fit together.
• Components move following tweaks and trails that have been created.
• Exploded Assembly animations can also be saved as an external AVI file.
Animating
• To animate the presentation, select the Animate tool from the panel bar. The animation dialog box will appear.
• Steps the animation forward one tweak at a time.
• Steps the animation forward one interval at a time. Click the button to move forward one interval.
• Steps the animation in reverse one interval at a time. Click the button to move back one interval.
• Steps the animation in reverse one tweak at a time.
• Plays the animation forward for the specified number of repetitions. Before each repetition, the view is set back to its starting position.
• Plays the animation for the specified number of repetitions. Each repetition plays start to finish, then in reverse.
• Plays the animation in reverse for the specified number of repetitions. Before each repetition, the view is set back to its ending position.
• Pauses the animation
playback.
• Records the specified animation to a file so that you can play it back later.
• Minimize during record: minimizes the dialog box while the animation is being recorded. Select the box to minimize the dialog box. Clear the check box to leave the dialog box active.
• The Interval is the number of steps a component will take to travel along the path. The larger the interval number, the slower the object will travel; conversely, the smaller the number, the faster the object will travel.
• The Repetitions field specifies the number of times the animation will play.
• The more button expands the Animation dialog box. (In the expanded dialog box, you can re-sequence or group the tweaks in the animation.)
• The first animation
is the Gasket:1, followed by Bolt:5.
• The order can be changed and sequences can be grouped together.
Look at the Animation Sequence:
• Moves the selected tweak up one place in the list.
• Moves the selected tweak down one place in the list.
• Hold down the shift key to select multiple items.
• Groups the selected tweaks to keep them together as you change the sequence.
• Ungroups the selected tweaks so that they can be moved individually in the list.
• Click on the red circle on the left side of the animation dialog box.
Exporting Video from a Presentation File
• A save dialog box will appear prompting you for the file name and location in which to save the AVI movie.
• Select the location and enter a file name.
• Next, a dialog box appears prompting you for the video compression to use.
• Click OK and use the default Cinepak Codec.
• Your instructor may
request that you use a different codec.
• This will return you to the original dialog box.
• Click on the motion
that you want to be recorded.
• When you click on the motion button, it will begin recording. (The dialog box will minimize while the animation is exporting, but will reappear when it is finished.)
• When the dialog box reappears, you need to click on Reset.
• This finishes writing the file.
• If this is not done, the movie may not play correctly.
Tips and Hints
• The size of the screen will be the native size of the AVI movie. So you might want to make the window smaller to make the movie file size smaller.
• You may want to turn off the 3D axis indicator by selecting the Tools Menu, Application Options, and unchecking the Show 3D indicator checkbox on the upper right side.