First time user with eDrawings viewer on a Mac. I'd like to know if it's possible to create a 360 rotation animation within the viewer. I have an object (screen shot attached) and I'd like to create a loop of a rotation on a horizontal axis, preferably without the shadow and reflection. I see there's a rotation tool, but couldn't figure out how to create the loop I wanted.
Any help is appreciated!
Al
Hi Blake,
Thanks for the response, very helpful. One last question, when hitting the play button, the rotations seem to be sort of random. Does it just cycle through a handful
of basic rotations?
Thanks again,
Al
No Problem Al,
As for the rotations, I do not have the Mac version on hand to try, but I know on the Windows version you have the ability to reorder the views in the animation pane that displays on the left side of the screen. I want to say a similar functionality should be available in the Mac version as well. It would be located in the pane the slides out of either side of the window for additional tools, and it would have 6 basic names that you can drag and drop to reorder.
Cheers,
-Blake
Hi Al,
If you just want to rotate through the major orientations of the model you can do this by simply using the animate (play) button in eDrawings, but if you are looking to have something like the model rotate on a table top, you can't create this using eDrawings at the moment. You can definitely still achieve this, but you need to create the animation in SolidWorks first and then save the file as an .eprt or .easm. Nearly any animation you make in SolidWorks, you can save with the eDrawings part and play back using eDrawings. An Animations tab will appear in eDrawings if you have animations saved with the file and you can toggle between them however you may like.
Hope this helps
-Blake