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6 Click OK.
Play Animations
You can play back both pre-recorded object animation and viewpoint animation in the Scene Area.
The viewpoint animations play in real time; this means that the Autodesk Navisworks engine is still attempting
to maintain the guaranteed frame rate so some drop-out may still occur, just as in real-time navigation.
To play back an animation
1 If the Saved Viewpoints window is not already displayed, click View ➤ Control Bars ➤ Saved Viewpoints.
2 Select the animation you want to play back from either the Saved Viewpoints window, or from the Available
Animations drop-down list on the Animation toolbar.
3 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.
4 For viewpoint animations, you may notice that the frame in the animation in the Saved Viewpoints window
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.
5 Use the VCR buttons on the “
Animation Toolbar” on page 66 to step and play forwards and backwards
through the animation.
To enable 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 script to open a door on pressing a specific
key on the keyboard, pressing this key will open the door.
Share Animations
You can export the animations to .avi files for playback with Windows Media Player
™
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For more information, see “Export Images and Animations” on page 266.
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