Animating w/o special software

[gregl]

Does anyone have a technique for rough animating assemblies without using any extra software such as mechanism? Possible using several screen shots to make an animated .GIF file???



-GL

 

[proximo]

You can use a program called smack it. It will allow you to take many screen images or any type of image and Smack them together to make a windows movie file.



It's allot of work, but I had to do this for a video presentation.

 

[proed]

Yep - I've done a few animated gifs:

- Set up relations / program to step your assembly thru the different positions

- Set the Pro/E background colour / lights, etc

- Printscreen for each position (to clipboard)

- Save each individual screenshot as a gif (I just use Paint in Win2K) - make sure they're all the same size

- Use a freeware prog to join the gifs together... (I use unFREEz from: www.whitsoftdev.com)



Regards

Ed

 

[aandersen]

If you already have photoshop you can use image ready to make animated gifs or Macromedia Fireworks works well too.



Instead of using print screen I would just use the SAVE A COPY option in the file menu. It will only allow you to save your image as a tif or jpg but I believe if you are using image ready or fireworks you can still bring those images in without any trouble. Mabey not though, I'm not sure and I don't have either program with me at work here to try it out.



Like proed was saying if you do not want a blue gradient backround you will have to change your config.pro options

system_geometry_color, system_letter_color, system_background_color, etc...



Good Luck

 

[fhodshon]

i bit the bullet and bought 3D Studio MAX.



i use it for ALL my rendering and animations.



Great software!!!!



fred

 

[wbonne]

Failing using Max which I agree is great software if not a little pricey, another option is Camtasia recorder (a free downloadable trial copy has all the functionality of the full product and it comes as part of a suite to edit the animations once they're done too).

It allows you to record direct from the ProE window and is dead easy to use....Wayne