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specific viewpoints for Autodesk Navisworks to interpolate into a viewpoint
animation later.
Viewpoint animation is controlled through the Animation tab and the
Saved Viewpoints window.
It is worth remembering that you can hide items in viewpoints, override colors
and transparencies and set multiple section planes and these will all be
respected by a viewpoint animation. This way you can easily create powerful
viewpoint animations.
Once a viewpoint animation is recorded, you can edit it to set the duration,
the type of smoothing and whether it loops or not.
There is also nothing to stop you from copying viewpoint animations (hold
down the CTRL key when dragging an animation on the Saved Viewpoints
window), dragging frames off the animation into a blank space on the Saved
Viewpoints window to remove them from the viewpoint animation, editing
individual frames attributes, inserting cuts or dragging other viewpoints or
viewpoint animations onto the existing one, to continue developing your
animations.
Animation Cuts (Pauses)
Cuts in a viewpoint animation are simply points where the camera pauses for
a while. They are inserted automatically when you click Pause during the
interactive recording of a viewpoint animation, or you can insert them
manually into an existing viewpoint animation.
To create a viewpoint animation in real time
1 Click Animation tab ➤ Create panel ➤ Record
.
To the far right of the Animation tab, notice that the Recording panel
displays.
2 Navigate around in the Scene View while Autodesk Navisworks records
your movement. You can even move the section planes through the
model during your navigation, and this will be recorded into the
viewpoint animation too.
3 At any point during the navigation, click Animation tab ➤ Recording
panel ➤ Pause
.
This will pause the recording while you maneuver into a new position.
To continue recording the viewpoint animation, click Pause again.
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