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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 299). Using animation also affects the
Animation Export.
View area. 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.
■ Planned. Choose this view to simulate the Planned schedule only (that is, only use the Planned Start and
Planned End dates).
■ Planned (Actual 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 Planned date range (that is, between
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