Animations are motion studies that model changes in component position
and appearance in time. You can create animation motion studies to display how parts move in
a mechanism. You can use animations for presentations or marketing materials.
You can create motion studies from a Motion
Study tab for a SOLIDWORKS model. When you open the motion study, you
can use the MotionManager tools to define the motion of the mechanism. The
MotionManager tree lists the model features. The most basic method of defining
motion is to modify the feature position, appearance, or other properties in time.
You can define an animation by adding keypoints along the MotionManager timeline for
selected features, and modifying the properties of those features at the keypoints.
There are two lessons in this tutorial: