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(OP)
Question,
How do I delete the animation "tab" along the bottom of my assembly. I created an animation and would like to delete it. I put my cursor over the tab and RMB and delete is grayed out.

Macduff spin
Colin Fitzpatrick
Mechanical Design Engineer
Solidworks 2007 SP 5.0
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Intel 2 Duo Core, 2GB RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB

RE: Animation

Turn the addin off.  Go to Tools --> Addins.

RE: Animation

(OP)
I tried that and it does work, but would like to premanently delete it

Macduff spin
Colin Fitzpatrick
Mechanical Design Engineer
Solidworks 2007 SP 5.0
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Intel 2 Duo Core, 2GB RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB

RE: Animation

You need to create another animation first, then delete the old one--since we all know that you absolutely MUST have an animation on the tab, just as the Flying Dutchman MUST have a captain.  So I think you right-click the tab and select new animation or whatever.  You'll probably get starting point errors when you do this, but you can ignore that.  From the new animation tab, right-click the old animation and select Delete.  You are now free of the unworthy animation.

Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
What did you dream?  It's all right--we told you what to dream.
    --Pink Floyd, Welcome to the Machine

RE: Animation

(OP)
Crap, I give up. Can't seem to get it to work.

Thanks Ron and Jeff

Jeff,
Great Floyd tune!

Macduff spin
Colin Fitzpatrick
Mechanical Design Engineer
Solidworks 2007 SP 5.0
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Intel 2 Duo Core, 2GB RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB

RE: Animation

You cannot rid yourself of the animation tab itself, but if you do what I wrote, you can delete a particular animation (such as "Animation1") after creating a "new" animation.  I do this all the time, since a slight mistake when programming an animation cannot be remedied--so the whole thing must be deleted.

Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
What did you dream?  It's all right--we told you what to dream.
    --Pink Floyd, Welcome to the Machine

RE: Animation

You cannot rid yourself of the animation tab itself, but if you do what I wrote, you can delete a particular animation (such as "Animation1") after creating a "new" animation.  I do this all the time, since a slight mistake when programming an animation cannot be remedied--so the whole thing must be deleted.

Regarding the lyric, I liked the match of that with the re-re-release of BladeRunner (Final Cut).  (If you understand the plot twist toward the end, you see the match.)  Good song, good movie.

Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
What did you dream?  It's all right--we told you what to dream.
    --Pink Floyd, Welcome to the Machine

RE: Animation

(That's odd--I edited a post, but apparently it let the first one through anyway.  Oops.)

Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
What did you dream?  It's all right--we told you what to dream.
    --Pink Floyd, Welcome to the Machine

RE: Animation

(OP)
Hey Jeff, check out what I added to my signature. This was base on the Pink Floyd topic from this morning. It's one of my favs from SNL.

Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2007 SP 5.0
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
I'm just a little verklempt. Talk amongst yourselves. I'll give you a topic. Pink Floyd, was neither Pink nor Floyd. Discuss!--“Coffee Talk” Mike Myers SNL

RE: Animation

HA!  Yeah, that bit was a good one.  I never see SNL anymore after one of their periods of irrelevance (and I also have no TV here).

Floyd Pinkerton from The Wall?

Pink Anderson?

Floyd Council?

Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
What did you dream?  It's all right--we told you what to dream.
    --Pink Floyd, Welcome to the Machine

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