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Traveling along a path

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Traveling along a path

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- [Instructor] So in this animation, what we wanna do is we wanna show this marble over here moving along a path, moving through the maze. So how do you do that? Notice I've got a path right here and it's basically a spline that I've drawn. What I did was I created a plane that was located basically at the center point of my marble and cutting the marble in half, and then I drew this path on top of the plane to show where I wanted the marble to go, and then I created a PathMate. And I'll go to right-click, Edit Feature, so you can see how that works. Basically, you pick a point on the component, and I picked the origin of the marble which was the center of the marble, and the path is the spline path, the spline that I created on that path sketch, and the path constraint is the percent along the path. Notice you have choices. I could go free, distance along the path, a percent, and right now it's at 0% so if I increase the percentage, it's moving along the path. See that? So depending…

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