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Reversing an animation

Reversing an animation - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Reversing an animation

- [Instructor] Another very handy tool within SolidWorks animations is the ability to reverse an animation. So, for example, if we have some specific animation that we spent quite a lot of time on to create, and then we want to actually do the exact opposite, for example, an explode and collapse would be a good example. I don't actually have to re-create the exact opposite of this. I can just flip, or reverse, my entire animation. So, in this case let's see if we just play through this simple animation here. Just pausing for a few seconds then clamping for a few seconds. So very simple animation, but let's say I wanted to now do the exact opposite, or reverse of that. It's a fairly simple process once you've run through it a few times. All I have to do is essentially copy, and paste my entire animation. So I can just box select so I'm gonna click, and drag here to do a box select. I'm gonna make sure I get kind of my entire animation here. Everything within that animation, and we can…

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