SOLIDWORKS: Animations

Learn how to animate your CAD designs in SOLIDWORKS. Discover how to generate simple animations, create complex animations with manual techniques and motion drivers, and more.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know

1. Getting Started

• Activating the MotionManager
• User interface
• Animation timeline and terminology

2. Animation Wizard

• Rotate animation
• Explode animation
• Collapse animation

3. Manual Animations

• Click and drag
• Suppressing mates
• Move with Triad
• Using mates

4. Editing the Timeline and Views

• Editing the timeline
• Reversing an animation
• View keys
• Auto-view key and disable view playback

5. Appearances

• Changing display and appearances
• Using display states
• Scenes and lighting
• Using scenes and lighting in animations

6. Motion Drivers

• Controlling animation with mates
• Using the Mate Controller
• Adding motors
• Filters

7. Basic Motion: Physics-Based Motion

• Animation vs. basic motion
• Adding gravity and contact
• Motors and contact and gravity

8. Cameras and Walkthrough Animations

• Introduction to cameras
• Introduction to cameras part 2
• Creating walkthrough animations
• Creating walkthrough animations part 2
• Camera sleds

Conclusion

• Next steps