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Need Help with 2005 Animator

Need Help with 2005 Animator

Need Help with 2005 Animator

(OP)
Hello All,

Does anyone else have trouble with the 2005 Animator? I am completly lost with this timeline thing. I was told by my VAR to try 2005 Animator to fix problems I was having in the 2004 Animator. I did not realize that 2005 is completly different that 2004. Can anyone give me any advice or guidelines to stick to when animating. I have had many problems where my animation paths would get deleted after changing a duration time. Also had problems with parts not showing up in the frames. Very strange stuff. I have a video card that is supported on the solidworks website so I don't think that is it. Please help...but be gentle.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. -Albert Einstein

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RE: Need Help with 2005 Animator

(OP)
Thanks for the advice guys, but this post is over a year old and I have become alot better at the animator through trial and error. I feel that I know it fairly well now.

Those are some good links for those who need to get started

Best Regards,
Jon

Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Solidworks 2006 SP0.0

RE: Need Help with 2005 Animator

For what it's worth, the 2006 tutorial (built into help files) is absolutely fabulous in getting started.  I had a project a couple of months ago and hit the animation cold.  I ended up with over a minute of large, 24-fps fully-rendered indirect lighting/high-quality-shadows animations for a PowerPoint presentation that I'm very proud of.  Impressed some shineys with it, too.  I was able to get everything started and moved into more advanced practices from the tutorial and a few tips from this forum.

(One 29-second segment took 27 hours to "render" on a client's computer--a fast AMD Opteron.  Yikes!  Hope for no power outages.)


Jeff Mowry
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