15 Replies Latest reply on Jul 5, 2014 8:34 AM by Deepak Gupta

animation of assembly of parts moving one by one into place?

Dave Krum May 30, 2014 6:50 AM

Good morning all,

I had a meeting with the shop foreman this morning regarding the possibility of making some sort of assembly animation that would show the shop guys the order of how to fit/weld plates together to make a weldment. I have several plates that comprise a box with internal smaller pieces. I'm not familiar with animation but can read up on the process if what I'm trying to do is even possible. Basically looking to show each part visually move into place on the weldment as an animation (.avi) before the next piece would fit to that existing assembly and so on until the assembly/weldment is complete. Thanks in advance!

Re: animation of assembly of parts moving one by one into place?

Chris Michalski May 30, 2014 6:58 AM (in response to Dave Krum)

Dave -
is an animation of an exploded view collapsing sufficient? That sounds like what you want.
In the assembly, go to the configuration tab, then right click on an assembly. One option is New Exploded View. You can move parts around and it saves the order and locations you move them to. Then you can save it as an avi.
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Re: animation of assembly of parts moving one by one into place?

Deepak Gupta May 30, 2014 6:58 AM (in response to Dave Krum)

Make an exploded view in the assembly and then you can use that to show the animation (use collapse while making the motion). You can keep the parts hidden and then show them one by one while they are collapsing.
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  Dave Krum May 30, 2014 7:29 AM (in response to Deepak Gupta)
  
  Thanks Deepak & Chris,
  I'll have to try what you guys are suggesting and get back to you with any questions.
  
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  Dave Krum Jun 6, 2014 9:08 AM (in response to Deepak Gupta)
  
  Thanks Deepak and Chris,
  Just wanted to let you both know that I read up on what you suggested and it worked perfect. Exactly what I needed. Thanks again.
  
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  Dave Krum Jun 6, 2014 9:12 AM (in response to Deepak Gupta)
  
  Deepak,
  Forgot to ask how you hide the parts and then make them visible as they are each collapsing into the assembly.
  
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    Deepak Gupta Jun 6, 2014 9:41 AM (in response to Dave Krum)
    
    Right click on the parts in the motion manager and select hide/show
    
    You may have to adjust the keys for the timings of hide/show.
    
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      Dave Krum Jun 6, 2014 9:54 AM (in response to Deepak Gupta)
      
      Not that familiar with motion manager but from what I gather you're saying, I must set each part up to hide it at the right time on the timeline? See attached. There are 10 parts with each of them collapsing into the assembly every few seconds. The attached shows them all collapsed. I'd have to right click on each of these parts and select hide on the time line? One of them has a quantity of two. Thanks.
      
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        Deepak Gupta Jun 6, 2014 10:01 AM (in response to Dave Krum)
        
        Yes. I'll try to make a video for you showing the steps.
        
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        Dave Krum Jun 6, 2014 10:03 AM (in response to Deepak Gupta)
        
        Thanks for your help. Appreciate it. I can send you the file but I think I need to send all the parts with it or the assembly model won't work.
        
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        Deepak Gupta Jun 6, 2014 10:08 AM (in response to Dave Krum)
        
        You can do a pack and go from the assembly opened up and make a zip of it. Finally upload the zip here
        
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        Dave Krum Jun 6, 2014 10:14 AM (in response to Deepak Gupta)
        
        Here goes. Never did this before. See if it works
        
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        Deepak Gupta Jun 9, 2014 7:22 AM (in response to Dave Krum)
        
        Hi Dave, check the attached video. I've done/shown it for few components only and believe you should be able to do it for all of them.
        
        Let me know in case you need more details. Do share the final video.
        
        In case you need more realistic video, you may save out the animation as series of pictures (with photoview as the rendered) and then club them into one movie using windows movie maker OR virtual dub.
        
        Assy Animation.zip 7.3 MB
        
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        Dave Krum Jun 10, 2014 9:22 AM (in response to Deepak Gupta)
        
        Thanks Deepak! Have viewed the animation quickly and it looks great. Need to check this out in detail when I get a chance and follow your approach when I try myself. Thanks for your efforts. Much appreciated!
        
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        Bhargav Kumar Govindu Jul 5, 2014 8:15 AM (in response to Deepak Gupta)
        
        Hi Deepak,
        The animation is cool... I have a similar kind of situation where i need to work with more than 200 components having nearly 50 to 60 bolts.. As the order of assembling is important, i need to follow the same way as above to demonstrate it. Is there any automated way to do this showing of objects only after when their path of explode or collision starts...
        Thanks in advance...
        
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        Deepak Gupta Jul 5, 2014 8:34 AM (in response to Bhargav Kumar Govindu)
        
        Bhargav Kumar Govindu wrote:
        
        Is there any automated way to do this showing of objects only after when their path of explode or collision starts..
        Simple answer is NO. You'll have to manually set the show/hide for the components.
        
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