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TodCast #3: Animating Conveyors

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Garth| 1 Comment

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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TodCast #2: Routing Wires

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Garth| Leave a comment

So you want to route some wires on your 3DVIA Composer animation, but:

(a) you don’t have 3D models of wires, and (b) you don’t have a way to make parts flexible.

So what to do?

In this latest TodCast, Tod shows an interesting way to use geometry primitives + associative paths to simulate wire routings. Enjoy!

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3DVIA your iPod… wait a minute… Introducing the TodCast!

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Garth| Leave a comment

We have a TON of new videos to share with you. I was about to post our next “3DVIA your iPod” video, and quickly eclipse our 100th video, and the title itself struck me… we’ve been doing this for several years, and when we originally started, this was the era of the video iPod. And the way to get the video on your iPod was through iTunes podcast feed.

A lot has changed in the last few years. We’re in the YouTube era, social era… iPhones and iPads, Android, tablets… it’s easier than ever to share videos. We don’t need iTunes video feeds or any other complicated uploading/downloading procedures and syncing. So while I was hoping to soon mark our 100th video “podcast”, it’s time to get current and refresh the name. Plus, I’d like to introduce you to our producer of these videos: Tod.

With that… I’m happy to announce our NEW video series: The TodCast!

Here’s introducing “TodCast #1: Technical Illustration Standards” where you will learn about how 3DVIA Composer supports S1000D, WebCGM, and ATA iSpec2200. Tell us what you think! (Or, tell Tod what you think!)

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3DVIA your iPod #90: “More Kinematic Tips”

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Garth| Leave a comment

Podcast: Download (25.9MB)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhfO_fC6So4

Hi folks, and Happy New Year to everybody.

Tod’s been busy with kinematics again, and has prepared yet another informative video on this topic. He provides a couple of nice tips to help simulate moving parts around, like a robot, where you need to first pick up the piece, move it with the help of kinematics, and then drop it.

Enjoy!

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3DVIA your iPod #88: “Intro to Kinematics Part 2″

Posted on September 20, 2009 by Garth| Leave a comment

Podcast: Download (46.8MB)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmqCRYty7Ps

Here is Part 2 of Tod’s introduction to 3DVIA Composer kinematics. Remember that with Composer, the goal is to use kinematics to facilitate the creation of animated procedures.

Enjoy the tutorial.

And we’re always looking for more ideas for future videos. Please let us know what you’d like to see!

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