jjatho Posted October 31, 2012 Posted October 31, 2012 I've never really dealt with any kind of animation programs before, so this is new territory for me. I did do a search, but it didn't fully answer my question. I use an external program that controls various heavy construction machinery in the 3d environments I work in. My new employer wants me to look into animating the construction plans I come up with, really just for the sake of eye candy for clients. The way the program seems to interact with AutoCAD is via the command line. Every time a I click a button to make an incremental change, it sends a series of commands like: Command: (build_machine with ton of numbers behind it and basically it erases the machine and rebuilds it in the new position. It's all made of up Xrefs. One thought I had was maybe capture all the commands to move the machine through a series of moves, then insert some kind of command between each move to render the image, then put all the separate images into another program to essentially make a cartoon. I've never used 3ds in any capacity, though I suspect it will be something that gets recommended. Quote
fuccaro Posted October 31, 2012 Posted October 31, 2012 Not the best way these days, but yes, it is possible to put images one after the other in order to make a short animation. I did so in the past: http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?883-AutoCAD2004-AutoLisp-and-animation&highlight=animation Quote
JD Mather Posted October 31, 2012 Posted October 31, 2012 I've never really dealt with any kind of animation programs before,..... Are you limited to using only AutoCAD for this, or do you have a budget to purchase software/training for animation? I remember years ago saving slides in AutoCAD and then writing a bit of code to play back the slides, but I have long forgotten how to do this. A search might turn up some instructions. mslide vslide Quote
fuccaro Posted November 1, 2012 Posted November 1, 2012 There was a tutorial on the main page, writen by CADTutor, about slides and slide presentations inside AutoCAD. Probable there is stil there. But if we are talking about 3D, I would render to file (or even just screen-capture some images) and put togheter those images. Quote
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