2011

Animate Objects
In Autodesk Navisworks Simulate 2011 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 2011 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 (for example, 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).
The following is not currently supported in Autodesk Navisworks Simulate 2011:
■ 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 (for example, 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.
■ Linking to TimeLiner to have different TimeLiner tasks trigger animations that
depend on each other (for example, one task moves crane to a specific point,
another task moves arm of crane).
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