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Play Back Animations
In Autodesk Navisworks there are two types of animation: viewpoint animation
and object animation.
Viewpoint animation contains pre-recorded user and camera movements in the
model. Object animation contains pre-recorded object movements in the model.
You cannot record any animation in Autodesk Navisworks, but you can play back
animations saved with the model. If there are any animation scripts, you can
switch them on and interact with animated objects.
Play Animations
You can play back both pre-recorded object animation and viewpoint
animation in the Scene Area.
The viewpoint animations play in real time; this means that the
Autodesk Navisworks engine is still attempting to maintain the
guaranteed frame rate so some drop-out may still occur, just as in
real-time navigation.
To play back an animation
1 Select the animation you want to play back from either the
Saved Viewpoints window, or from the Available Animations
drop-down list on the Animation toolbar.
2 You can use the Animation Position slider to quickly move
forwards and backwards through the animation. Full left is at
the beginning and full right is at the end. The text box next to
the slider shows the point in time (in seconds) through the
animation that the camera is. You can type a number into this
box to set the camera at a certain point in the animation and
play back from that point.
3 For viewpoint animations, you may notice that the frame in
the animation in the Saved Viewpoints window is highlighted
when the animation is playing. You can click on any frame to
set the camera to that point in time in the viewpoint animation
and continue playing back from there.
4 Use the VCR buttons on the “
Animation Toolbar” on page 33
to step and play forwards and backwards through the
animation.
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