Modeling a Revolving Door
In this tutorial, you learn how to model and animate in Autodesk VIZ. You will construct an animated revolving door for a
hotel lobby. In the course of doing so, you'll learn about creating objects and transforming them. You'll learn about using
snaps and pivot points for alignment, as well as general user interface navigation skills. You'll learn to instance objects
and link them into an animated hierarchy. You'll also learn to merge files together.
Skill Level: Beginner
Time to complete: 25 minutes
Features Covered in This Tutorial
After completing this tutorial, you should be able to:
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Have a working knowledge of the Autodesk VIZ user interface.
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Create a revolving door by using primitive and AEC objects.
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Apply materials to objects and sub-objects.
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Animate the doors in the scene using rotation transforms and parametric animation.
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Merge objects from another file into your scene.
All the files necessary to do the tutorials can be found on the program disc. Before doing the tutorials, copy the \tutorials directory from the program disc to your local program folder.
