SOLIDWORKS: Making Movies
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
Course Description
Overview
Learn how to tell a story about your product design by creating movies in SOLIDWORKS.
Syllabus
Introduction
- Want to create animations?
- What you should know
- Gallery of animations
- What the different tools do
- How the timeline and keypoints work
- Understanding the motion browser
- Rotating the model
- Exploding the model
- Collapsing the model
- Saving and adding views to the animation
- Saving the animation
- Playing the animation
- Components to a great script: Lights, camera, action!
- Drag a component
- Copying and pasting keypoints
- Editing a distance mate
- Editing an angle mate
- Traveling along a path
- Setting up a path
- Aligning the camera to the path
- Setting up the animation
- Creating a walkthrough
- Reviewing the animation
- Creating saved views
- Posing the model
- Using saved views with keypoints
- Writing the script to create the animation
- What views when?
- Reviewing the animation
- Turning parts invisible
- Turning parts transparent
- Changing colors
- Turning parts visible
- Writing a script to control appearance
- What changes when?
- Create the animation using different approaches
- Reviewing the appearance animation
- Writing a script that combines appearances, camera views, and movement
- Animate the appearances
- Animate the camera views
- Animate the movement
- Review how the timelines overlap in the motion timeline
- Create the animation
- Review the animation
- What type of movie do you want to make? What is your message?
- The message guides the script
- Reviewing the rules for a great script
- Figure out your timeline
- What happens when?
- What makes the movie more entertaining or interesting?
- Reviewing the rules for file formats when saving your movie
- Is the file going to be edited or combined with other footage?
- Reviewing the rules for setting up your model
- Don't use configurations—use mates that can be edited
- Set up saved views
- Create exploded views
- Planning makes a better movie
Taught by
Elise Moss
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