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Is it possible to have a collapse animation with variable speed?

Question asked by Michael Kaplan on Jun 25, 2015
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I have created a 3D company logo using Solidworks for use in a promotional video. I utilized the Animation Wizard and came out with a nice collapse animation with cameras and lighting to show off the company in the opening scene. After showing it to my boss, he was wondering if there was a way to vary the speed to have it collapse at a constant speed at the beginning, then at a specified point in the timeline, increase the speed so that the blocks [in this case, say two blocks of wood] "crash" together. To be more specific, in a 15 second animation, the speed for 8 seconds will be at 1x, then after the 8 seconds have elapsed, it speeds up to about 2x. Is this possible?

Andrei Popov Jun 26, 2015 4:59 PM

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Yes you can, you have to change the keys positions and the animation would go faster or slower as you wish.

All you have to do is to set a key at each intermediary position.

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Deepak Gupta Jun 26, 2015 5:27 AM

How about creating animations at several speeds and then joining them together via windows movie maker.

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Andrei Popov Jun 26, 2015 4:59 PM

Yes you can, you have to change the keys positions and the animation would go faster or slower as you wish.

All you have to do is to set a key at each intermediary position.

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Michael Kaplan @ Andrei Popov on Jun 26, 2015 6:34 PM

I am having trouble accomplishing what you're talking about with key positions. For my collapse animation, it runs from 0 to 10 seconds. At the 8 second mark, that is where I want to speed up the animation. It will not let me add an intermediary key point at the 8 second mark without removing the one at the 10 second mark, I don't know why this is. There are 5 parts in my collapse that I want to do this for simultaneously, but Solidworks does the same thing for all of them, deleting my 10 second key point and replacing it with the 8 second key point. Any ideas?

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Andrei Popov @ Michael Kaplan on Jun 26, 2015 7:53 PM

First of all delete all your keys. Then move your parts in a certain position and add a key in that position, then you move the parts further in another position and add another key. When you animate Solidworks will move the parts in the first key at first position and then the second key at the second position.

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Adolf Watson Jun 27, 2015 2:15 AM

To get the other content sections to close, you'll need to create a variable for the current target and add an if statement and find .content with class of active and remove or toggle that class.

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How about creating animations at several speeds and then joining them together via windows movie maker.
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Yes you can, you have to change the keys positions and the animation would go faster or slower as you wish.
All you have to do is to set a key at each intermediary position.
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- Michael Kaplan @ Andrei Popov on Jun 26, 2015 6:34 PM
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  I am having trouble accomplishing what you're talking about with key positions. For my collapse animation, it runs from 0 to 10 seconds. At the 8 second mark, that is where I want to speed up the animation. It will not let me add an intermediary key point at the 8 second mark without removing the one at the 10 second mark, I don't know why this is. There are 5 parts in my collapse that I want to do this for simultaneously, but Solidworks does the same thing for all of them, deleting my 10 second key point and replacing it with the 8 second key point. Any ideas?
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  - Andrei Popov @ Michael Kaplan on Jun 26, 2015 7:53 PM
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    First of all delete all your keys. Then move your parts in a certain position and add a key in that position, then you move the parts further in another position and add another key. When you animate Solidworks will move the parts in the first key at first position and then the second key at the second position.
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Adolf Watson Jun 27, 2015 2:15 AM
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To get the other content sections to close, you'll need to create a variable for the current target and add an if statement and find .content with class of active and remove or toggle that class.
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