Chapter 23: Animating with the MotionManager
If you keep your animation relatively simple, the MotionManager tools in SolidWorks Standard should produce adequate results in some situations. If you are using mates to drive motion, be sure to follow best practice recommendations for mates. If you are manually positioning parts, remember to place key points closer together if the motion curvature changes abruptly.
If you are making larger animations and the end product is just an AVI file, it's acceptable to break the animation into smaller bits. This makes each part of the animation much simpler to do, and work can even be delegated to other users or other machines for parallel processing. It may also be beneficial to use post-processing to add captions and narration to your movies; a few words of explanation might be valuable to viewers.
- Master It In a blank assembly, create a camera with a circular path that focuses on the origin. Save the assembly as a template, and then...
