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ASAaron Snyder22/08/2013

Ok I'm just starting out with Solidworks Motion so I have a very stupid question which has been driving me crazy for hours.  How can I move the initial position of an assembly in a motion study?  I have an assembly in it's exploded state.  In the motion study tab I have animated the collapse.  The only problem is that the position of the assembly is too far to the right.  When I try to save it as a video part of the assembly is cropped off.  All I want to do is move the entire assembly to the left a bit so that it will be centered in my video.  I try to pan to the right, I have my model exactly where I want it, the animation plays flawlessly.  When I slide the timer bar back to zero the assembly jumps back to it's original (wrong) position.  I tried moving the assembly to the position I want and recalculating, the assembly immediately jumps back to the original, wrong position.  I try saving the animation and it also jumps back to it's wrong position.  I tried toggling "Orientation and Camera Views" off and on, nothing.  How can I simply center my assembly so it will show up correctly when I make a video?  I'm not even doing anything more advanced like creating key points, I just want to move the assembly.