From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Animations
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Move with Triad - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Animations
Move with Triad
- [Instructor] Another very useful tool when generating manual animations with the click and drag method is to use the Move with Triad tools. What I can do here is just right click on any component I'd like to move and I have this option here, Move with Triad. And what this does, it generates my triad on my specific component, the gear in this case and with this now I can just have a better ability to fine tune my movements with my click and drag. So, I can move exactly about the X, Y or Z axis and I can also rotate a little bit more exactly with this Move with Triad command as well. For example, let's try to make an animation here where I wanted to rotate that gear wheel say exactly 45 degrees. So, I might go, first move my timeline bar here to about two seconds, so I'm gonna wanna rotate that gear from about zero to two seconds there. I'm going to click on my gear and again I could just click and drag here but that would just be kind of eyeballing the angle and I'd just be kind of…
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