SOLIDWORKS: Animations

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About this Course

By bringing your designs to life with animation, you can communicate precisely how your product should move and show off how your product works in general. SOLIDWORKS offers tools and functions that can help engineering, design, and product teams generate animations of existing designs. In this course, learn what you need to know to create animations with this powerful 3D CAD software.

Expert steps through how to generate simple animations with the Animation Wizard, as well as how to create more complex animations using manual techniques and motion drivers.

Plus, learn about basic physics-based motion and walkthrough animations.

 

Topics include:

  • Working with MotionManager
  • Reviewing common animation terminology
  • Using the Animation Wizard to generate animations
  • Making complex animations with the click and drag method
  • Editing the timeline and views
  • Changing display and appearances
  • Using scenes and lighting in animations
  • Controlling animation with mates
  • Physics-based motion
  • Creating walkthrough animations

 

Contents

 

Introduction
Welcome

What you should know

 

1. Getting Started
Activating the MotionManager

User interface

Animation timeline and terminology

 

2. Animation Wizard
Rotate animation

Explode animation

Collapse animation

 

3. Manual Animations
Click and drag

Suppressing mates

Move with Triad

Using mates

 

4. Editing the Timeline and Views
Editing the timeline

Reversing an animation

View keys

Auto-view key and disable view playback

 

5. Appearances
Changing display and appearances

Using display states

Scenes and lighting

Using scenes and lighting in animations

 

6. Motion Drivers
Controlling animation with mates

Using the Mate Controller

Adding motors

Filters

 

7. Basic Motion: Physics-Based Motion
Animation vs. basic motion

Adding gravity and contact

Motors and contact and gravity

 

8. Cameras and Walkthrough Animations
Introduction to cameras

Introduction to cameras part 2

Creating walkthrough animations

Creating walkthrough animations part 2

Camera sleds

1. Language: English. 

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