2012

Animate Objects
In Autodesk Navisworks Manage 2012 you can animate your model and interact
with it. For example, you could animate how a crane moves around a site, or how
a car is assembled or dismantled, and so on. With a few mouse clicks, you can also
create interaction scripts, which link your animations to specific events, such as “On
Key Press” or “On Collision”. So, for example, a conveyor belt will move when you
press a button on your keyboard, the doors will open as you approach them in your
model.
Scope
Autodesk Navisworks Manage 2012 supports both object animation and object interaction
as follows:
■ Animation specified by keyframes with linear interpolation between keyframes (similar
to viewpoints animation).
■ Camera, section plane, object animation.
■ Multiple independently moving objects independently started.
■ Multiple animations of the same object in the same scene (for example, moving a crane,
and then lifting its arm).
■ Simple scripts (for example, to open and close a specified door).
■ Linking to TimeLiner to trigger off independent animations as tasks start.
■ Linking to TimeLiner with different TimeLiner tasks play to specific points in an
animation (for example, have one animation that moves crane between all points on a
site, any task can trigger animation to move from current point to desired point).
■ Linking to Clash Detective to run clash tests at specific steps through an animation to
check for animated versus animated or animated versus static object clashes.
The following is not currently supported in Autodesk Navisworks Manage 2012:
■ Animation specified by anything other than objects, for example spline or path.
■ Animation of lights.
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