Animation Workbench
Introduction
Animation Toolkit for FreeCAD
This Workbench can be used to create sequences of pictures.
It is still under construction - all contributions welcomed ...
References
- Author: microelly2
- Home page: Animation
- Source code on github: Animation
Installation
This workbench can be installed from the Addon Manager. For manual installation see Installing more workbenches.
Tools
Detailed description here
Toolbar
Drop down menu
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**Mover**: moves objects during a time intervall along the motion Vector.
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**Rotator**: rotates objects during a time intervall. Further parameters are Rotation Axis/Direction, Center of Rotation and Angle.
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**Tranquillizer**: slows the render process if the animation runs to fast.
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**Photographer**: creates a picture of a given format and size to a render directory for every time step.
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**Plugger**: connects a newly created object to an already animated shuttle object or to a vertex of an animated sketch to enable using sketcher to calculate complex transformations with some constraints by means of the shuttle object.
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**Adjuster**: enables to calculate a value by a basic linear function. Now sketches can become animated by changing values in constraints.
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**Styler**: controls the Gui-object. Visibility, Transparency and Shape Color can be changed on the fly.
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**Billboard**: Billboard and Moviescreen are features to display extra information like texts or images during the animation.
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**Moviescreen**: Billboard and Moviescreen are features to display extra information like texts or images during the animation.
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**Extruder**: can be used to demonstrate the functionality of a miller or a 3D printer.
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**Viewpoint**:
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**Manager**:
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**Bounder**: limits the values of the Placement to an intervall. It is the projection of a motion to a min/max limited space.
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**Filler**: can be used to fill the volume of a part from bottom to top like to fill a bottle with wine. It can work as running slice trough the part like a ct scan.
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**Gearing**: animates the rotation of 2 or 3 gears or a star-planet-moon system.
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**Kartan**: animates a Kardan joint.
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**Scaler**:
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**Placer**:
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**Diagram**:
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**Collision**:
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**Combiner**:
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**AnimationControlPanel**:
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**Pather**:
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**Snapshot**:
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**ViewSequence**:
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**Speeder**:
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**Toucher**:
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**Tracker**:
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**Trackreader**:
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**Abroller**:
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**Delta**:
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**Sum**:
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**Assembly2Controller**:
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**Connector**:
Other
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**Animation**:
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**Case action**:
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**False action**:
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**Follow me**:
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**Loop action**:
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**Query action**:
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**Repeat action**:
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**Script action**:
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**True action**:
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**While action**:
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**Reset**:
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**Icon1**:
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**Icon2**:
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**Icon3**:
Links to Animation WB
- Workbench Wiki: www.freecadbuch.de
- FreeCAD Wiki:
- FreeCAD Forum: http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?t=8976&start=10
- Tutorials: Toolset
- Videos: Animation videos
- Files: Examples
- Test cases: Test cases
- Report bugs: Please report bugs at FreeCAD forum, or at Animation issues
Other useful links
- ExplodedAnimation: FreeCAD workbench to create exploded views and animations of assemblies.
- Assembly2: Assembly workbench for FreeCAD with support for importing parts from external files.
- External workbenches
⏵ documentation index > User Documentation > Addons > External Workbenches > Animation Workbench
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