How to animate a parameter in Catia
How to animate a parameter in Catia
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I am trying to create an animation of an object that shows the variation of a single parameter -- in this case a radius length value. I would like to create a 10-second animation, using a fixed camera position in Photo Studio, that animates this parameter. I have attached a series of screen shots showing the range of the middle radius parameter -- from .5in to 3.0in -- for reference.
Any advice on how to animate this parameter would be greatly appreciated. Advance thanks.
Any advice on how to animate this parameter would be greatly appreciated. Advance thanks.





RE: How to animate a parameter in Catia
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LukaszSz. Poland, Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering : MEchanical Engineering. BsC - 2013
RE: How to animate a parameter in Catia
CODE --> VBSCRIPT
Language="VBSCRIPT" Sub CATMain() Set partDocument1 = CATIA.ActiveDocument Set part1 = partDocument1.Part Set parameters1 = part1.Parameters Set selection1 = CATIA.ActiveDocument.selection Set objViewer3D = CATIA.ActiveWindow.ActiveViewer Set objCamera3D = CATIA.ActiveDocument.Cameras.Item(1) objViewer3D.FullScreen = True exten = ".png" fileloc = "D:\" imagename="animation" objViewer3D.Viewpoint3D = objCamera3D.Viewpoint3D if selection1.count=1 then Set length1 = parameters1.Item(selection1.item(1).value.name) storedValue=length1.Value initial= InputBox("Input initial value of parameter") final= InputBox("Input final value of parameter") noOfSteps= InputBox("Input number of steps") step=(final-initial)/(noOfSteps-1) for i=1 to noOfSteps length1.Value=initial+(i-1)*step part1.Update strname = fileloc & imagename & Cstr(i) & exten 'msgbox strname objviewer3D.Capturetofile 4,strname next objViewer3D.FullScreen = False length1.Value=storedValue part1.Update else msgbox "Select only 1 parameter!" End If End SubAnyway, I wrote small macro to animate parameter and create set of images with /png extension. You can merge those files manually with almost minor of graphic programs, e.g. gimp.
Location: D:\ (You can change it manually)
Hide all unnecessary elements (sketches, etc), select parameter to animate and run macro
LukaszSz. Poland, Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering : MEchanical Engineering. BsC - 2013
RE: How to animate a parameter in Catia
I wasn't able to get the spring example to work yesterday but it seems like it is not far off. One of my goals is to render from the animation tab within the Photo Studio shooting definition so that I can use the indirect illumination settings.
I will give your macro a try now. Cheers!