Animate

Menu access : Kinematics | Animate

Description :

Allows you to animate a defined kinematics.

General philosophy:

Click on the sensitive areas of the picture above:

The record button enable to save the movie as an AVI file :

Once activated, the record button opens a configuration window to set recording options. Then every new generated image is recorded. Therefore, you can use the play button, but also the slider. You can change the camera and the zoom window during (note that it’s better to pause the animation, then change camera and zoom, and finally continue playing).

Available option(s):

The  "Check clash" square allows to activate the check of collision if it is ticked..

The square "Stop" allows to stop the animation if a clash is detected. (By default clashed parts become red without stopping the animation).

The combo box allows to choose the group in witch you want to check the possible clashes.

The groups of parts ere defined using kinematics | clash control set

Specific point(s):

It is possible to interrupt the animation using the Esc key.

You can use the dynamic rotation during the animation.