2010

Animate Objects
In Autodesk Navisworks Simulate 2010 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 Simulate 2010 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 (e.g. 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 Simulate 2010:
■ Animation specified by anything other than objects, for example spline or
path.
■ Animation of lights.
■ Moving a whole object and then creating an independent trigger to move part
of object (e.g. move whole crane and have button that triggers arm moving
at any point).
■ Opening/closing of multiple doors without having to create a separate script
and animation for each door. Currently there are no cut-and-paste capabilities
in scripting.
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