Create animation in UG
Create animation in UG
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I am quite new in unigraphics and I use NX5.
I would like to create animation of a simple assembly consisting of a shaft and a wheel which is turning. I have difficulty defining a trajectory curve and key frems.
Can anyone help me by writing the steps to follow in order to create animation
I would like to create animation of a simple assembly consisting of a shaft and a wheel which is turning. I have difficulty defining a trajectory curve and key frems.
Can anyone help me by writing the steps to follow in order to create animation





RE: Create animation in UG
Best regards
Hudson
RE: Create animation in UG
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
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RE: Create animation in UG
That would be great to be able to create a movie of the animation, but unfortunately I have trouble making the wheel turn around.
RE: Create animation in UG
Now if you only want a sort of screen capture AVI type of movie, then your best bet will be to use Assembly Sequencing and drive the model directly and then use something like Camtasia to capture the AVI.
Now for future reference, in NX 6 we are adding a built in AVI capture and in fact we are even building it into Assembly Sequencing so that it will automatically capture even single frame of a sequence as an AVI without even having to worry about getting the capture to synchronize with the playback which is the current limiting factor in creating AVI's of Assembly Sequencing, but that has been fully solved in NX 6.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
RE: Create animation in UG
Attached demo file file is 2+ MB.
RE: Create animation in UG
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Even a complicated looking example like this is simply created by rotating the flywheel to cause the rest of the mechanism to reciprocate.
John,
Does that mean I can get a higher resolution movie file as AVI in NX-6? And can I increase the resolution (i.e. in the order of 1600 x 900) without needing to save individual TIFF files?
Best Regards
Hudson
RE: Create animation in UG
No, the AVI's will be captured using the native screen resolution, but depending on the graphics card/display combo that you're using, that could start to climb up there in terms of 'native screen resolution'.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
RE: Create animation in UG
So basically a built in Camtasia? I'd think that the stumbling block there might be that thus far I've only seen that work when NX is able to display the animation in real time. Currently the engine takes 10 hours to generate 2 minutes of footage.
Best Regards
Hudson
RE: Create animation in UG
If you go back you will see that when I was talking about creating an AVI, I was NOT talking about capturing 'Animations' but rather an Assembly Sequence since they do run in real time.
To see what I mean, attached below is an AVI of an Assembly Sequence which literally was captured (in NX 6 using the built-in AVI capture) in about the same amount of time that it took to run it, which is virtually the same as the time it takes to PLAY the film clip.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
RE: Create animation in UG