High Quality Animations

[hudson888]

I know how to make high quality images, and I know how to make key frame animations. I even know how to make an mpeg from my animation.

Does anyone how do you make high quality animations?

What licenses do you need? I think that we have most licenses.

I know that I have seen it done in the past. I think we even tried it out once like you do. But I can't find any way to get a decent resolution out of the movies it appears to be able to create?

Best Regards

Hudson

 

[JohnRBaker]

Bennett,

Yes, I graduated in 1971, BSME (no CAD back then, just slides rules, and T-Squares & Triangles). None of the prof's are there anymore except Tom Grimm and he was only a grad student back then. In fact, I was a lab assistant for him for awhile and I helped document (I was the department's photographer and ran the darkroom) experimental setups for his doctoral thesis. So if you see him, say hello.

BTW, I'm involved in the PACE Program of which 'da tech' is one of the participating schools and so I usually get to campus at least once a year for PACE related activities although I think I've missed this academic year's events due to poor scheduling at least someones part ;-) Maybe next year.

Anyway, glad I could help.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

 

[VillanMotorSports]

Trying to do one again. but in NX4

Last time I did one it was in V18. I'm trying to export a moton animation to an mpg, so that I can merge it with the visual animator.

I know in V16 and V18 you had the option of exporting the moton animation to an mpg.

Where is this now located. Or am I doing something wrong and over complicating things.

I've no training in this but managed to figure it out on my own in the past.

 

[hudson888]

Okay what you're looking at is mating conditions driven by expressions. The animation software allows you to increment one expression, "FrameNumber". Which is to say you can still use that expression in a formula of your choosing via another expression to control the movement of one or more elements at a more or less constant rate. But is still isn't as sophisticated as using motion to show the actual scenario that you may have been able to define there.

At one stage I experimented using an If/else expression to accelerate the rotation for the first hundred or so frames until it reached its idling speed. BTW this was all artificially slow for the sake of the video it becomes a blur when we videoed the real one running.

I have a colleague who tells me that he has animated a several axis machine using motion. Necessarily to show that it works safely with a satisfactory cycle time. I'd like to do the same for him eventually, but the only way I'm certain that it works is to basically screen capture the animation using third party software.

You can also build up a sequence of motion in segments using the animation software and then you would merge the videos together.

Best Regards

Hudson