Animator Question

[Mitsu50]

Hi all,

Is it possible to animate a section view transition? Meaning start with a solid part, and transition to a section view? Or animate configurations being enabled and disabled? I've tried different things but I'm not having any luck. Perhaps its not possible. Thanks in advance!

 

[SBaugh]

Configs - No you can't animate configs... still.
Sections - No you can't animate sections

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

faq731-376

 

[Mitsu50]

oh well, looks like a transparency transition will have to do! Thanks for the quick reply!

judging from the response, animating configs is a wanted feature..... It would be cool@

 

[rockguy]

There is a technique to animate to a section view. You create a "dummy" part in your assembly and use it to cut through your model which in effect is animating a section view. The Animator tutorial used to show how this could be achieved. I haven't look at it for a while but it should still be in there?

Rob Rodriguez CSWP

http://www.robrodriguez.com

SW 2005 SP4.0/SW 2006 EV

 

[J-C]

Hmm......fun with Animator

http://home.midsouth.rr.com/gildashard/motor.zip

Jason

 

[Mitsu50]

thats pretty cool, what technique did you use to create that?

 

[Mitsu50]

actually i figured it out. just using screen capture.

 

[SBaugh]

There is this too faq559-1118

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

faq731-376

 

[AlWat]

Yeah to animate a section view (you mean cut-away view, right?) you make a dummy part that consists of an extrude-cut only, and in the animation you move it into the assembly. You can edit the "feature scope" so that it only cuts through the parts you want it to.

Look here for more details:

http://www.solidworks.com/pages/products/solutions/documents/animator_guide.pdf