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Animation
Techniques
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Objective
By the end of this you will be able to:
• Use slides or other animation techniques
to illustrate graphic design solutions
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Using Slides
• How to use slides for the purpose of
presentation has already being covered in
a previous presentation called:
• “using_powerpoint”
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Animation Techniques
• SolidWorks has a software add-in which
will create animations for you
• If it is not turned on in your package you
can do so by clicking on the “Tools” menu
and selecting “Add-Ins”
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Animation Techniques
• Select the “SolidWorks Animator” tick
box to activate the animator
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Animation Techniques
• This will now give you a new toolbar in the
SolidWorks interface
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Animation Techniques
• To start using SolidWorks animator click
on the “Animation 1” tab at the bottom of
the drawing
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Animation Techniques
• This will open a new task plane
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Animation Techniques
• To start creating the animation click on:
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Animation Techniques
• This will open up a series of dialog boxes
where you can set what you want to your
animation to do
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Animation Techniques
• When you press next you will see you can
change the axis of rotation, the number of
rotations and the direction of rotation
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Animation Techniques
• The final thing you need to do is to set the
duration of the animation
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Animation Techniques
• Once this is done click on “Finish”
• The animation sequence shows on the
timeline
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Animation Techniques
• You can now play you’re your animation by
clicking on the play button
• You can loop the sequence so that it is
continuous by selecting the option
• You can save the animation
SaveLoopPlay
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Animation Techniques
Saving your animation
• Click on the “Save” tab
• This will open a dialog box where you can
select the location of the animation and
you can name the animation as well
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Animation Techniques
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Animation Techniques
NB:
• When saving save the file as in the
“Microsoft AVI File” format (.avi) as you
can then insert it into PowerPoint
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Animation Techniques
• Click on “Save” and when the next dialog
box appears click OK for video
compression
• The file will then be compressed into the
video format• Compression impacts the image quality and the file size
• The higher the compression rate the higher the image quality and the larger
the file size
• The lower the compression rate the lower the image quality and the smaller
the file size
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Animation Techniques
• To insert the animation into PowerPoint
simply click on the “Insert” menu and
select “Movies and Sounds” and then
“Movies from File”
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Animation Techniques
• In the dialog window select the location
and movie you want to insert and select
“OK”
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Samples
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Samples