PRO E Animation

[Laserxenon]

Any help would be apprectiated on this: I am trying to learn how to animate assemblies in Pro E, so that I can show the animation to a client. Unfortunately, my PRO E help function is not working properly, so I dont have that as a reference. If anyone could offer some suggestions on where I could learn how to do this, it would be great

Also, is it possible to save the animations say as a movie (.mpg), so it could be accesible on a website for people without PRO-E (consumers)??

 

[im4cad]

Check this out:

http://www.ts.mah.se/utbild/mt7130/des_anim.pdf

im4cad
Pro Design Services, Inc.

http://www.cadproe.com/pds/home.asp

 

[Laserxenon]

im4cad: thanks alot, looks like a very good reference.
do you have much experience in animating assemblies in PRO E??, can the animations be exported as movies?-drew

 

[taozh]

Sure you can.

In 2001, after you finished your analyses in Mechanism, pick Results --> Playback. You'll get a widow... I don't have an asm file handy, otherwise I'll show you the detail menu pick. But it's pretty intuitive once you get the window, I'm sure you can figure it out.

Give me a shout if it doesn't work.

Cheers,
Tao

 

[peglor]

Before you start trying, there's no way of changing the shape of a part during an animation, so springs can't be animated. Also, the rendered versions of the animations have a nasty habit of not showing the same view as the unrendered version (Much like the standard photorender really), you usually have to adjust the view each time, but it's very tedious for an animation, especially when the rendered frames aren't the same size as the window in animation mode.

Another annoying behaviour is that when you render an animation the model moves slightly relative to the room. Because of this making the model sit on the floor of the room for the duration of an animation isn't possible.

If you have a reflective floor on the room and one of the parts of the assembly is under the floor, a ghost of the part will appear when the model is rendered too.

I'm being a bit too critical really though. ProE is not an animation package - it's far too useful for other things