animation techniques © copyright william rowan 2007
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Animation Techniques
© Copyright William Rowan 2007
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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
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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• 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
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Now you try!
• Create a drawing in SolidWorks or use one you have already created and animate it
• Once you have this done insert it into PowerPoint and create a presentation about the object (max 5 slides)