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You can play back both pre-recorded object animation and viewpoint animation in the main navigation
window. The animation plays in real time; this means that the NavisWorks engine is still attempting to
maintain the guaranteed frame rate so some drop-out may still occur, just as in real-time navigation.
However, you can export the animations to an .avi file for playback with Windows Media Player™ and this
will render each frame without any drop-out. Of course, you don't have the option of pausing the playback
half way through to look around the mode using this method! See “ Exporting an Animation ” for details on
how to export an animation to .avi.
Playing back an animation:
1. Select the animation you wish to play back from either the Viewpoints control bar, or from the
Available Animations drop-down list on the Animation toolbar.
2. You can use the Animation Position slider to quickly move forwards and backwards through the
animation. Full left is at the beginning and full right is at the end. The text box next to the slider shows
the point in time (in seconds) through the animation that the camera is. You can type a number into
this box to set the camera at a certain point in the animation and play back from that point.
3. For viewpoint animations, you may notice that the frame in the animation in the Viewpoints control
bar is highlighted when the animation is playing. You can click on any frame to set the camera to that
point in time in the viewpoint animation and continue playing back from there.
4. Use the VCR buttons on the Animation toolbar to step and play forwards and backwards through the
animation.
Enabling Scripting:
• To enable animation scripts in your file, click the Toggle Scripts button on the Animation
toolbar.
You can now interact with your model. For example, if there is a scipt to open a door on pressing a
specific key on the keyboard, pressing this key will open the door.
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