SOLIDWORKS: Making Movies

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About this Course

SOLIDWORKS boasts movie-making functionality that engineers and product designers can use to tell a story about their designs.

These animations can help you sell others on your design ideas, as well as clearly communicate how a product should be built and operated.

In this course, expert steps through how to make a movie of your own in SOLIDWORKS. Expert covers how to create motion studies, work with cameras, create your script, control the appearance of your objects, and work with camera views and movement.

To wrap up the course, expert goes over rules and best practices that can help you determine the overall message of your movie, craft a great script, set up your model, and more.

 

Contents

 

Introduction
Want to create animations?

What you should know

 

1. Introduction to SOLIDWORKS Movie Making
Gallery of animations

 

2. Exploring the Motion Study Interface
What the different tools do

How the timeline and keypoints work

Understanding the motion browser

 

3. Starting Off Easy: The Camera Wizard
Rotating the model

Exploding the model

Collapsing the model

Saving and adding views to the animation

Saving the animation

Playing the animation

 

4. Writing a Great Script
Components to a great script: Lights, camera, action!

 

5. How to Make Things Move
Drag a component

Copying and pasting keypoints

Editing a distance mate

Editing an angle mate

Traveling along a path

Setting up a path

Aligning the camera to the path

Setting up the animation

Creating a walkthrough

Reviewing the animation

 

6. Creating Keypoints for Camera Views
Creating saved views

Posing the model

Using saved views with keypoints

Writing the script to create the animation

What views when?

Reviewing the animation

 

7. Changing Appearances in Animations
Turning parts invisible

Turning parts transparent

Changing colors

Turning parts visible

Writing a script to control appearance

What changes when?

Create the animation using different approaches

Reviewing the appearance animation

 

8. Elements of a Great Movie: Appearances, Camera Views, and Movement
Writing a script that combines appearances, camera views, and movement

Animate the appearances

Animate the camera views

Animate the movement

Review how the timelines overlap in the motion timeline

Create the animation

Review the animation

 

9. So, You Want to Make Movies? Let's Review!
What type of movie do you want to make? What is your message?

The message guides the script

Reviewing the rules for a great script

Figure out your timeline

What happens when?

What makes the movie more entertaining or interesting?

Reviewing the rules for file formats when saving your movie

Is the file going to be edited or combined with other footage?

Reviewing the rules for setting up your model

Don't use configurations use mates that can be edited

Set up saved views

Create exploded views

1. Language: English. 

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6. 30 days refund.

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