Hi, I'm working with an assembly in Solidworks 2007. The
assemblycontains multiple solid-body parts and an intersection
curvebetween the parts. The intersection curve is created by
selectingeach solid-body part from the appropriate solid body
folder in thedesign tree. In the Animator, one of the parts moves
and the otheris stationary and the intersection curve is connected
to boththroughout the range of motion. My goal is to create a video
in AVIformat that shows the movement of the intersection curve as
theinterface between the parts changes. The strange problem
thatarises is that I can reach this goal in about 10% of my
assemblies.In each case I do every step identically (or as close as
humanlypossibly). In the instances that succeed, if I simply drag
thetime-bar and release it, the intersection curve will
update/rebuildautomatically after a second or two. When the process
does notwork, the intersection curve will only update after I click
therebuild button. To the best of my knowledge, the settings for
eachmodel are the same. I've searched extensively through the
optionsmenu for any discernable differences and have come up empty.
I'massuming/hoping that there's a reason this is happening or
thatthere's a solution for this problem. If you have any
questions,please don't hesitate to ask. Any help would be
greatlyappreciated. Thank you very much for your time. Rich p.s. I
triedto attach two videos in AVI format but got an error message
statingthat that format is not permitted. I'll upload the videos
todemonstrate my problem if someone can tell me how. Thanks.
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Did you do this animation in SW2007? I don't know how to make the Intersection Curves auto-rebuild during animation.
You need to use a Auto-rebuild macro to force rebuild the animation over the time and use screen capture to capture the avi.