Virtual Walk Thru in SW2005

[CLinn]

Hi again folks.

I have been asked by a contractor friend to model a home in SW and produce a walk thru to show potential clients.

I have heard that SW2006 has a Camera feature to do this. Does anyone know how I do something similar in SW2005?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

CLinn

 

[dezignstuff]

In 2005 you would have to do section views or cut away anything behind the "camera". Questionable if that will really work or not. Any reason why you can't use 2006?

 

[CLinn]

The problem is that I don't have 2006.

 

[Jabberwocky]

In Solidworks (Professional at least) there is an Animator add-in which should be able to do fly-throughs for you. You could combine this with Photoworks and have pretty graphics, wallpaper on the walls etc. I think this could still be done in 2005, but honestly don't recall.

Otherwise there are some (relatively) cheap graphics programs out there, like Rhino, POV-Ray, or Animation Master. You could export your model through IGES or VRML and use one of these apps to create your walkthrough.

 

[Badwolf]

Animator is the key but it would be very tricky in any SolidWorks version before 2006. You need the camera facility of 2006 to be able to easily get inside a model.