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Record and Play
Animations
In Autodesk Navisworks there are two types of animation: viewpoint animation and
object animation.
Viewpoint Animation
Viewpoint animation is a quick and efficient way of recording both your movement through
the model and views of the model. There are two ways to produce a viewpoint animation in
Autodesk Navisworks:
■ By recording interactive navigation
■ By creating animated transitions between saved views
You can also create slide show animations, which are, essentially, viewpoint transitions with
a number of cuts (pauses) added between viewpoints.
Object Animation
In addition to viewpoint animation, you can also animate and interact with 3D geometry in
your model. Although the ability to record animations and produce scripts necessary to
interact with animated objects is limited to users with access to the Animator and Scripter
functionality, any user can actually play them back once they have been recorded.
See
Animate Objects (page 499) for step-by-step instructions on how to record animations and
scripts.
Create and Edit Viewpoint Animations
There are two ways to create viewpoint animations in Autodesk Navisworks.
You can either simply record your real-time walk through, or you can assemble
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