×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Adding animated flow lines to a composed DXF

Adding animated flow lines to a composed DXF

Adding animated flow lines to a composed DXF

(OP)
I am trying to animate flow lines in a Hydraulic schematic made in AutoCad, as an overlay showing direction of flow. Can you offer suggestions on how to do it.

Thank you

RE: Adding animated flow lines to a composed DXF

Maybe you could use the graphics engine in Excel, provided you can get the schematic in there.  I'd take a picture of the drawing, scale it to fit on a spreadsheet page, overlay some arrows, then maybe use VBA to alternately hide and display the appropriate arrows.  

http://virtualpipeline.spaces.msn.com

"What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know, its what we know for sure" - Mark Twain

RE: Adding animated flow lines to a composed DXF

Animated gif?

RE: Adding animated flow lines to a composed DXF

(OP)
Big, Gator,
            Thank you I have tried both suggestions, I was able to move the schematic to Excel, but there are no features there for the process "animation", Keeping it simple a stream or flow of fluid colored red & white movement in line from a pump to a valve etc.   Having said that I have not lost hope. I know there is a way.

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources