Animation-SW Parts
Animation-SW Parts
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Hello All,
Hey, I’ve been reading some threads on animation and have a question… Is there a way to animate a SW part (not an assembly) to show a user how it was built/modeled by another user? I think this would be really cool. I know we have the command manager and it shows you feature by feature, but feel a one mouse button click function would be a nice addition. This way, we can kickback with a cup of coffee (or a beer…CBL…lol) and watch everyone’s bad modeling practices.
If SW doesn’t have this functionality, this would be a nice ER request, no?
Hey, I’ve been reading some threads on animation and have a question… Is there a way to animate a SW part (not an assembly) to show a user how it was built/modeled by another user? I think this would be really cool. I know we have the command manager and it shows you feature by feature, but feel a one mouse button click function would be a nice addition. This way, we can kickback with a cup of coffee (or a beer…CBL…lol) and watch everyone’s bad modeling practices.
If SW doesn’t have this functionality, this would be a nice ER request, no?
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Colin Fitzpatrick
Mechanical Design Engineer
Solidworks 2007 SP 5.0
Dell 390 XP Pro SP 2
Intel 2 Duo Core, 2GB RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB






RE: Animation-SW Parts
Then when a part is rolled back, single LMB click on the rollback bar (it should turn blue), then use the up/down arrow keys to navigate.
I was told once that Solid Edge has this ability. It would be a very handy tool if you were making "How To" videos. Especially if it could show the sketches or other elements used per feature.
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I've no idea where it came from though. Probably from here somewhen in the distant past.
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Colin Fitzpatrick
Mechanical Design Engineer
Solidworks 2007 SP 5.0
Dell 390 XP Pro SP 2
Intel 2 Duo Core, 2GB RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
RE: Animation-SW Parts
CODE
' delay in seconds
Const DELAY As Single = 1#
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thread559-166022: Screen capture animation
Also include the tip in the second to last post.
I should have guessed handleman was involved.
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Colin Fitzpatrick
Mechanical Design Engineer
Solidworks 2007 SP 5.0
Dell 390 XP Pro SP 2
Intel 2 Duo Core, 2GB RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
RE: Animation-SW Parts
Did you also change per my last post?
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Since that post I found out the reason for the above. Many SW functions return what they call a VARIANT_BOOL. This is different from a standard VBA boolean in that the numeric value of a VBA Boolean True is 1, but the VARIANT_BOOL True is -1. False is 0 for both types of booleans. Because of the way VBA evaluates things when it expects booleans, sometimes it seems to behave and sometimes not. So basically, to revise that "tip in the second to last post", as long as we compare to the "false" value of zero then we will get proper behavior. In the code below, we compare the numeric value of bRet to the universal numeric false zero. the CLng function ensures that VBA looks at the numeric value of bRet.
CODE
If CLng(bRet) <> 0 Then
sNow = Timer
While sNow + DELAY > Timer
' need to allow SW to refresh screen
DoEvents
Wend
End If
CBL, you know me too well.
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Ummm, yeah ... that's exactly what I was thinking.