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How the timeline and keypoints work

How the timeline and keypoints work - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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How the timeline and keypoints work

- [Speaker] So I wanna talk a little bit about how the timeline and how the key points work. So we have here a little toy, and it's basically one of those toys that has a ball with a maze. You'll notice that we have a key point here and a key point here that has to do with the maze. I used a traveling along the path mate. I'm gonna be showing you how to set up this animation in a little bit, but just so you can see, you can see the path mate right here. And you can see at different key points, you have where the position is on the path mate. So notice, if I have it over here, it shows that my distance is at zero millimeters. And then if I come over here, the distance is at 205.61 millimeters. And then at this point, it's at 411. And you can see on the display window that as I hover over that key point, it shows you the path and it kinda previews where the path is going. And notice you can kinda see it. So if I play from the start, you can see the ball moving along the path. So you can…

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