2012

Animate Objects
In Autodesk Navisworks Simulate 2012 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 2012 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 2012:
■ 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).
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