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  • TodCast #23 Animation Organization Techniques
    You may have noticed I’ve been gone for a bit. I’ve taken a new role as a SolidWorks Composer TTM.  This episode I’ve decided to revisit using Selection sets and Filters to help organize and edit your animations. Remember, naming selections in proper order can be a very powerful asset when editing your animation. Enjoy, […]
    Tod CRUIKSHANK
  • Copy Keys
    For most of you this is a refresher on one of the capabilities within 3DVIA Composer Authoring. When animating repetitive tasks it is helpful to utilize the “Copy Selected Tracks of the Selected Actors” from the context menu in the timeline. In this example I am applying a rotation to a single bolt and then […]
    Tim HORSCH
  • Building a configurator application
    There have been many requests for an instruction on how to build a configurator application. Actually, it’s not so difficult to build such an application if you have good understandings of views in Composer and some knowledge of HTML coding. Here is a procedure you can follow. In this tutorial, we just use the GotoView() […]
    Shuji MOCHIDA
  • Moving multiple parts with “Local Transform”
    Composer has many useful functions to help your authoring processes faster and more enjoyable. The first function I would like to introduce is “Select Instances” that can select all the same geometry referenced in several positions of the model. With this function, you can select multiple instances with just one click. Then, select Transform > […]
    Shuji MOCHIDA
  • Fundamentals of Creating Great Technical Communication
    Discover how to shorten production, minimize overhead and surpass your competition by creating modern assembly instructions with 3DVIA Composer. Share with us how 3DVIA Composer has helped you in your daily missions !   Sammy  
    Sammy GAD

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TodCast #3: Animating Conveyors

July 29, 2011 Posted in  3DVIA, CAD reuse, Podcasts, Tips and Tricks 5 comments

For those of us in the northern hemisphere — hot enough for ya? Welcome to the dog days of summer! To help keep you cool, Tod has put together a set of tips and tricks that will turn complicated animations into quick and easy work — getting you out of the hot seat, on your way home, and into your hammock in no time!

Tod shows how powerful yet easy it is to mix up and incorporate some advanced stuff: assembly groups, parent/inherited animations, assembly selection mode, grid snapping, primitives, timeline filtering by selected objects… just to name a few.

Enjoy!

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5 comments to TodCast #3: Animating Conveyors

  • August 31, 2011 at 1:17 pm
    Jaz Lee  says:

    This is a great video thanks for sharing. I stumbled across it when researching about conveyorsand conveyor systems.

  • July 13, 2012 at 9:42 am
    Georgina Clark  says:

    This is really clever stuff what you can do. Can you do that kind of thing with these conveyors?

  • September 6, 2012 at 9:05 pm
    Tod  says:

    Hi Georgina,
    Sorry I did not notice teh post but absolutly you can do this kind of animation on the conveyers you linked to.
    Hopefully you can have fun animating conveyers in Composer yourself.

    Tod

  • December 12, 2012 at 6:28 am
    Heather Nowton  says:

    Cool video. I would love to have a go at animating this