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Screen capture animation

Screen capture animation

Screen capture animation

(OP)
Is there a way to capture screen shots and them animate them with Solidworks? or a recommended app that will do this? I also would like to animate my history tree, It would be cool if I could put all of the history steps in an animated show & tell.

tom..

Tom Malinski
Sr Design Engineer
OKay Industries
New Britain CT

RE: Screen capture animation

SW 2007 has a screen capture utility under the view menu.  You could then use windows movie maker (included with XP I believe) to compile the images into a video file.

Rob Rodriguez CSWP
President: Northern
Vermont SolidWorks User Group
www.robrodriguez.com (updated 8/12/06)
SW 2006 SP 4.0 / SW 2007 SP 0.0

RE: Screen capture animation

(OP)
Thanks for your help with this, I pasted the code into a macro from this link    thread559-83357  it runs, but the 1 second delay does not work. It just rips through at full speed. I'm running SW 2007 maybe the code needs a tweak. Any suggestions?

Tom Malinski
Sr Design Engineer
OKay Industries
New Britain CT

RE: Screen capture animation

I've noticed that VBA is sometimes a bit hoky about doing boolean comparisons.  Toward the end of the macro, try changing the block:

CODE

        ' only pause if we have successfully rolled back
        If True = bRet Then
            sNow = Timer
            While sNow + DELAY > Timer
                ' need to allow SW to refresh screen
                DoEvents
            Wend
        End If

to:

CODE

        ' only pause if we have successfully rolled back
        If bRet Then
            sNow = Timer
            While sNow + DELAY > Timer
                ' need to allow SW to refresh screen
                DoEvents
            Wend
        End If

Only one line changed, but I inluded the context so that you can find it easier in the code.

RE: Screen capture animation

(OP)
Thanks handleman, this did the trick.
We have a bunch of students coming in this week. Now I can run through the history of some projects to show them how the models were built.

tom..

Tom Malinski
Sr Design Engineer
OKay Industries
New Britain CT

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