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!
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.