Autosaving Bmp Files

[draughtsman2001]

Hi I am wanting to create an animation of an autocad drawing form start to finish. I think the best way would be to write an autolisp program saving the drawing every 10mins or say 40 commands as a bitmap into individual files which can be combined as an animation. I have no idea how to write this autolisp program....can anyone help?
Thanks...
Bill

sorry i think i might have put this in the wrong forum

[draughtsman2001]

Hi I am wanting to create an animation of an autocad drawing form start to finish. I think the best way would be to write an autolisp program saving the drawing every 10mins or say 40 commands as a bitmap into individual files which can be combined as an animation. I have no idea how to write this autolisp program....can anyone help?
Thanks...
Bill

[Lee Mac]

Easier way - look into Camtasia - best program for this sort of thing:

http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp

The free trial should do what you need :)

[draughtsman2001]

good man..i will thanks a lot

[CADMASTER1128]

You may want to also look into a program called HyperCAM (http://www.hyperionics.com/hc/)... There is a free version but you have to put up with a line of text that say "Unregistered HyperCAM" It's small and no big deal to me.

Website - http://www.hyperionics.com/hc/

[ReMark]

You could also do it as a script file then play the script back. We used to do this at public information sessions using a series of drawings called up on the computer, in a particular sequence, displayed for a short period of time, then replaced by the next drawing. The script was written to "loop" the entire sequence over and over completely unattended until such time as a key combination would stop the display.

[fuccaro]

Draughtsman2001
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