assembly animation

[anishjm]

hi friends,


iam doing a project on modeling of a large assembly with around 400 parts of which around 150 are moving parts....within this assembly, there are quite a few subassemblies also.......


Can anybody please tell me how to animate the sequence of assembling parts within a subassembly and also to animate the sequence of assembling parts and subassemblies in the Main assembly .


i want to make it clear that im not talking about the animation of the motion or the mechanism part of it.....it is the animation of the assembly process that i need to know......if anyone has any knowledge about this, please share your ideas with me...or else if any good tutorials are available, plz send it to me.....


waiting for ur response


regards


ANISH

 

[james.lynch]

Anish,


what you'd probably need to do is look firstly at each of your subassemblies and create an animation of each of those first of all.


so what you want to do is create an animation of the parts (I presume in some kind of exploded view) being assembled in some particular sequence ..


to do this you need to use the advanced body drag options within th Design animation option (applications/Animation)


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as you drag you components you can create snapshots of positions of components which can be then arranged in a timeline. various display/view and transparency states can then be added to give your animations that bit extra.


there is an excellent webcast replay in the educational resource library


http://www.ptc.com/appserver/it/icm/cda/template_lib/replay/ replay_v.jsp?&im_dbkey=24701&icg_dbkey=362 but you do need a maintenance contract to access it ..


hope this helps,


James
Edited by: james.lynch

 

[anishjm]

hi james


thanx a lot for the info





Regards


ANISH

 

[SRINIVASANIYER1]

Dear Anish,


There are two things. Firstly, as told, you are working on a large assembly. I believe you must have made simplified representations, to representyour assembly sequence. Explode the assemblies and make snapshots of the assembly process.


Create the animation of the snapshots v/s time.


With wildfire 2 simplified representation do not need Pro/Process licence.


I hope this has been useful.