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The resulting viewpoint animation will contain a cut (page 469) for the
duration of the pause.
4 When finished, click Animation tab ➤ Recording panel ➤ Stop
.
The animation is saved automatically in the Saved Viewpoints window
(click View tab ➤ Workspace panel ➤ Windows drop-down
➤ Saved Viewpoints). Your new viewpoint animation is called
“AnimationX”, where “X” is the latest available number. The name will
be editable at this point if you want to name it yourself. This viewpoint
animation will also become the current active animation in the
Available Animations drop-down list on the Playback panel of the
Animation tab.
While the above method is useful for creating quick viewpoint animations
on the fly, sometimes you need more control over the viewpoint camera. To
do this in Autodesk Navisworks, you need to set up several viewpoints and
add them to an empty viewpoint animation. When playing back the
animation, Autodesk Navisworks will then interpolate between these
viewpoints.
To create an animation frame by frame
1 If necessary, display the Saved Viewpoints window (click View tab
➤ Workspace panel ➤ Windows drop-down ➤ Saved Viewpoints).
2 Right-click the Saved Viewpoints window and select Add Animation.
A new viewpoint animation is created, called “AnimationX”, where “X”
is the latest available number. The name will be editable at this point if
you want to name it yourself. There will be no plus sign next to the new
viewpoint animation because it is empty.
3 Navigate to a position in the model you would like to add to your
animation and save the new location as a viewpoint. (Right-click the
Saved Viewpoints window and select Save Viewpoint.) Repeat this
step as desired. Each viewpoint will become a frame for the animation.
The more frames you have, the smoother and more predictable the
viewpoint animation will be. See
Save Viewpoints (page 445) for more
information on creating viewpoints.
4 When you have all required viewpoints, drag them onto the empty
viewpoint animation you just created. You can drag them on one-by-one,
or you can select multiple viewpoints using the CTRL and SHIFT keyboard
keys and drag several on at once.
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