SOLIDWORKS: Animations

1h 56mBeginner2018-07-11

Authors

Justin Flett

Consultant, Engineer, Professor, Product Development Specialist

Course details

By bringing your designs to life with animation, you can communicate precisely how your product should move—and show off how your product works in general. SOLIDWORKS offers tools and functions that can help engineering, design, and product teams generate animations of existing designs. In this course, learn what you need to know to create animations with this powerful 3D CAD software. Instructor Justin Flett steps through how to generate simple animations with the Animation Wizard, as well as how to create more complex animations using manual techniques and motion drivers. Plus, learn about basic physics-based motion and walkthrough animations.

Learning objectives
Working with MotionManager
Reviewing common animation terminology
Using the Animation Wizard to generate animations
Making complex animations with the click and drag method
Editing the timeline and views
Changing display and appearances
Using scenes and lighting in animations
Controlling animation with mates
Physics-based motion
Creating walkthrough animations

Skills covered

SOLIDWORKSDassaultManufacturingProduct and Industrial DesignProduct and ManufacturingDeep Dive (X:Y)

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - What you should know

1. Getting Started

03 - Activating the MotionManager
04 - User interface
05 - Animation timeline and terminology

2. Animation Wizard

06 - Rotate animation
07 - Explode animation
08 - Collapse animation

3. Manual Animations

09 - Click and drag
10 - Suppressing mates
11 - Move with Triad
12 - Using mates

4. Editing the Timeline and Views

13 - Editing the timeline
14 - Reversing an animation
15 - View keys
16 - Auto-view key and disable view playback

5. Appearances

17 - Changing display and appearances
18 - Using display states
19 - Scenes and lighting
20 - Using scenes and lighting in animations

6. Motion Drivers

21 - Controlling animation with mates
22 - Using the Mate Controller
23 - Adding motors
24 - Filters

7. Basic Motion - Physics-Based Motion

25 - Animation vs. basic motion
26 - Adding gravity and contact
27 - Motors and contact and gravity

8. Cameras and Walkthrough Animations

28 - Introduction to cameras
29 - Introduction to cameras part 2
30 - Creating walkthrough animations
31 - Creating walkthrough animations part 2
32 - Camera sleds

Conclusion

33 - Next steps