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Why does the Composer these?

Question asked by Kiss Peter on Sep 22, 2015
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Hello,

I use this program for 3 months, but I could not find solutions or explanations to these problems.

1. If I make an animation in SolidWorks Composer, then sometimes it looks a bit different in SolidWorks Composer Player. Everything is "closer" to the view point and the player buttons, which I have always placed in the bottom right corner falls out of the picture in SolidWorks Composer Player. It happens only some animation, in general everything is ok.

2. Sometimes happens that the color of a spare part changes (mostly in the rotation and approximation of view) when I play the animation. After a restart, the problem is over, but that would be good if it never happened.

I hope you can help me.
I thank you in advance for the help!

Peter

Scott Harvey Sep 22, 2015 9:35 AM

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1. Are you viewing the paper space correctly? If you don't know what that means its the size of paper you are publishing too. You can hide it but can't see where your items are relative to the paper and the items will be shifted to your perspective of where you think you are placing objects on the paper.

2. I don't know. Guessing you accidentally changed the color and didn't save your work and it goes back. If it happens again click the part and scroll through your animation manually and watch the color swatch to see if it changes colors. If it doesn't then use your Assembly selection tool and select the part again and watch it again.

You can always filter by part and by part properties to quickly see any "keys" that were made for that part if you animation is heavy with keys.

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Scott Harvey Sep 22, 2015 9:35 AM

You can always filter by part and by part properties to quickly see any "keys" that were made for that part if you animation is heavy with keys.

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Kiss Peter @ Scott Harvey on Sep 28, 2015 2:58 AM

Hello,

Thanks for the answer! Your first response has helped me. I have not dealt with the paper size.
I hid it and thought it has no role. Do I have to set the paper size for all animations (there are a lot) or you could recommend another solution?

Unfortunately the second answer didn’t help me. I have not changed the properties of the components.
That's why I can certainly say so, since the color does not change in the same animation after a restart.

Can it be that it's a software problem?

But it is not as important as the first one.
Thank you again for the help!

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Scott Harvey @ Kiss Peter on Sep 28, 2015 9:07 AM

Yes, every individual Composer animation file needs 1 paper space so you will have to go into every file and change it. Set the default document properties to the paper space you want so every time you open a document its set. You could search to see if someone made a macro if you have 100's of animations but I doubt it. Go into the API section of the SolidWorks Forum and ask for "Macro to change paper space on SolidWorks Composer"

For the color problem. Send a file with the problem. I can't spend too much time with it but will give it a quick look.

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Kiss Peter @ Scott Harvey on Sep 30, 2015 5:07 AM

Hello,

the macro would be a good idea, but I can already see that the setting of the paper size is only the smaller part of the task. I have the positions of the text and image to fit the paper.
The next time I'll already mind of the paper size.

It's very nice from you that you would check my Animation.
Unfortunately, I cannot send it, because there is not a concrete animation, but I have many. And, we must not send out the data. The problem always comes before elsewhere and disappeared the next time. Fortunately, only rarely.

In any case, I think it is not so huge mistake that we would have to spend more time.

I was just curious, but not so much

Thanks for the help and your time that you have spent!

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Scott Harvey Sep 22, 2015 9:35 AM
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1. Are you viewing the paper space correctly? If you don't know what that means its the size of paper you are publishing too. You can hide it but can't see where your items are relative to the paper and the items will be shifted to your perspective of where you think you are placing objects on the paper.

2. I don't know. Guessing you accidentally changed the color and didn't save your work and it goes back. If it happens again click the part and scroll through your animation manually and watch the color swatch to see if it changes colors. If it doesn't then use your Assembly selection tool and select the part again and watch it again.

You can always filter by part and by part properties to quickly see any "keys" that were made for that part if you animation is heavy with keys.
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- Kiss Peter @ Scott Harvey on Sep 28, 2015 2:58 AM
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  Hello,
  
  Thanks for the answer! Your first response has helped me. I have not dealt with the paper size.
  I hid it and thought it has no role. Do I have to set the paper size for all animations (there are a lot) or you could recommend another solution?
  
  Unfortunately the second answer didn’t help me. I have not changed the properties of the components.
  That's why I can certainly say so, since the color does not change in the same animation after a restart.
  
  Can it be that it's a software problem?
  
  But it is not as important as the first one.
  Thank you again for the help!
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  - Scott Harvey @ Kiss Peter on Sep 28, 2015 9:07 AM
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    Yes, every individual Composer animation file needs 1 paper space so you will have to go into every file and change it. Set the default document properties to the paper space you want so every time you open a document its set. You could search to see if someone made a macro if you have 100's of animations but I doubt it. Go into the API section of the SolidWorks Forum and ask for "Macro to change paper space on SolidWorks Composer"
    
    For the color problem. Send a file with the problem. I can't spend too much time with it but will give it a quick look.
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    - Kiss Peter @ Scott Harvey on Sep 30, 2015 5:07 AM
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      Hello,
      
      the macro would be a good idea, but I can already see that the setting of the paper size is only the smaller part of the task. I have the positions of the text and image to fit the paper.
      The next time I'll already mind of the paper size.
      
      It's very nice from you that you would check my Animation.
      Unfortunately, I cannot send it, because there is not a concrete animation, but I have many. And, we must not send out the data. The problem always comes before elsewhere and disappeared the next time. Fortunately, only rarely.
      
      In any case, I think it is not so huge mistake that we would have to spend more time.
      I was just curious, but not so much
      
      Thanks for the help and your time that you have spent!
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