Assembly Motion Record

[abeschneider]

Can Unigraphics record dynamic assembly motion? ie: without having to use "UG Motion", can I record the motion of parts in an assembly on the screen? How?

 

[Erland]

YES, it's amazing what you can animate just by controlling the expressions of one or more parts, by linking them to the system parameter FrameNumber.

You need to create the system expressions :

FrameNumber=0 (note the capital letters)

If you make some mating conditions creating expressions (or any other feature etc. creating expressions) you can use the FrameNumber expression.

e.g. change a distance mating condition from 100 to 200 during 20 frames:

distance = 100 + (200-100)*Framenumber/20

Now, in Animation options, tick the "update expressions" field, and create an animation after defining some frames (just add one with 20 frames).








Erland R. Nielsen
Denmark

 

[abeschneider]

hmm, this looks really interesting. I'll try it out.