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Record and Play
Animations
In Autodesk Navisworks there are two types of animation: viewpoint animation
and object animation.
Viewpoint Animation
Viewpoint animation is a quick and efficient way of recording both your
movement through the model and views of the model. There are two ways to
produce a viewpoint animation in Autodesk Navisworks:
■ By recording interactive navigation
■ By creating animated transitions between saved views
You can also create slide show animations, which are, essentially, viewpoint
transitions with a number of cuts (pauses) added between viewpoints.
Object Animation
In addition to viewpoint animation, you can also animate and interact with 3D
geometry in your model. Although the ability to record animations and produce
scripts necessary to interact with animated objects is limited to users with access
to the Animator and Scripter functionality, any user can actually play them back
once they have been recorded.
See “
Animate Objects” on page 271 for step-by-step instructions on how to record
animations and scripts.
Create and Edit Viewpoint Animations
There are two ways to create viewpoint animations in Autodesk
Navisworks. You can either simply record your real-time walk
through, or you can assemble specific viewpoints for Autodesk
Navisworks to interpolate into a viewpoint animation later.
Viewpoint animation is controlled through the Tools ➤ Animation
menu, the Saved Viewpoints dockable window, and the Animation
toolbar.
It is worth remembering that you can hide items in viewpoints,
override colors and transparencies and set multiple section planes
and these will all be respected by a viewpoint animation. This way
you can easily create powerful viewpoint animations.
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