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It is also possible to highlight all the tasks that are being worked on during the interval. By selecting the Show
All Tasks in Interval check box, and, for example, setting the Interval Size to 5 Days, all tasks being worked on
during those 5 days will be set to their Start Appearance in the Scene Area, including those that begin and end
within the bounds of the interval. The Simulation slider will show this by drawing a blue line under the slider.
If this check box is clear, tasks that begin and end within the bounds of the interval will not be highlighted in
this manner, and will need to overlap with the current date in order to be highlighted in the Scene Area.
You can define the overall Playback Duration for the complete simulation (the time needed to play it through
from start to finish). Use the Up and Down arrow buttons to increase or decrease the duration (in seconds). You
may also enter a duration directly into this field.
You can define whether the current simulation date should be overlaid in the Scene Area, and if so whether it
should appear at the top or bottom of the screen. From the drop-down, choose from None (to display no overlay
text), Top (to display the text at the top of the window), or Bottom (to display the text at the bottom of the
window).
You can Edit the information displayed in the overlay text using the
Overlay Text Dialog Box. This dialog box
also makes it possible to alter the Font Type, Style and Size by clicking on the contained Font button.
You can add animation to an entire schedule, so that during the TimeLiner sequence playback, Autodesk
Navisworks will also play the specified viewpoint animation or camera.
The following options can be selected in the Animation field:
■ No Link - no viewpoint animation or camera animation will be played.
■ Saved Viewpoints Animation - links your schedule to the currently selected viewpoint or viewpoint animation.
■ Scene X - ➤ Camera - links your schedule to a camera animation in the selected animation scene.
You can pre-record suitable animations for use with the TimeLiner simulation (see “
Record and Play Animations”
on page 251). Using animation also affects the
Animation Export.
Views. Each view will playback the schedule depicting Planned and Actual relationships:
■ Actual. Choose this view to simulate the Actual schedule only (that is, only use the Actual Start and Actual
End dates).
■ Actual (Planned Differences). Choose this view to simulate the Actual schedule against the Planned schedule.
This view will only highlight the items attached to the task over the Actual date range (that is, between Actual
Start and Actual End. See diagram below for graphical representation). For time periods where the Actual
dates are within the Planned dates (on schedule), the items attached to the task will be displayed in the Task
Type Start Appearance. For time periods where the Actual dates are early, or late in comparison to the Planned
dates (there is a variance), then the items attached to the task will be displayed in the Task Type Early or Late
Appearance, respectively.
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