Learn how to animate your CAD designs in SOLIDWORKS. Discover how to generate simple animations, create complex animations with manual techniques and motion drivers, and more.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know
- Activating the MotionManager
- User interface
- Animation timeline and terminology
- Rotate animation
- Explode animation
- Collapse animation
- Click and drag
- Suppressing mates
- Move with Triad
- Using mates
- Editing the timeline
- Reversing an animation
- View keys
- Auto-view key and disable view playback
- Changing display and appearances
- Using display states
- Scenes and lighting
- Using scenes and lighting in animations
- Controlling animation with mates
- Using the Mate Controller
- Adding motors
- Filters
- Animation vs. basic motion
- Adding gravity and contact
- Motors and contact and gravity
- Introduction to cameras
- Introduction to cameras part 2
- Creating walkthrough animations
- Creating walkthrough animations part 2
- Camera sleds
- Next steps
Taught by
Justin Flett
