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Getting ready to animate

Getting ready to animate - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Getting ready to animate

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In the last movie, we prepared a motion study and now we're ready to save out the file and run our animation and rendering of that study. To get started, let's go ahead and open Motion Study 2, at the bottom of the screen, and you can see here's exactly where we left off in the last movie. Now, I'm going to click on the Save icon. What this allow me to do is save it as a AVI movie from the SolidWorks screen that we're seeing right now. And I can give it an aspect ratio and a size. I can fix the aspect ratio, and make other changes here. I can also adjust the frame rate, frames per second. So standard movie frames per second is 24 frames a second. Standard video frames is 30 frames per second. But in general, something like this, you probably want to be around 10 to 15 frames per second. 7.5 might be a little bit slow and a little bit more jittery but it really depends on what you're actually going to be using it for in the long run. We also have the option, instead of a screen render,…

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