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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

• Mover: moves objects during a time intervall along the motion Vector.
• Rotator: rotates objects during a time intervall. Further parameters are Rotation Axis/Direction, Center of Rotation and Angle.
• Tranquillizer: slows the render process if the animation runs to fast.
• Photographer: creates a picture of a given format and size to a render directory for every time step.
• 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.
• Adjuster: enables to calculate a value by a basic linear function. Now sketches can become animated by changing values in constraints.
• Styler: controls the Gui-object. Visibility, Transparency and Shape Color can be changed on the fly.
• Billboard: Billboard and Moviescreen are features to display extra information like texts or images during the animation.
• Moviescreen: Billboard and Moviescreen are features to display extra information like texts or images during the animation.
• Extruder: can be used to demonstrate the functionality of a miller or a 3D printer.
• Viewpoint:
• Manager:
• Bounder: limits the values of the Placement to an intervall. It is the projection of a motion to a min/max limited space.
• 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.
• Gearing: animates the rotation of 2 or 3 gears or a star-planet-moon system.
• Kartan: animates a Kardan joint.
• Scaler:
• Placer:
• Diagram:
• Collision:
• Combiner:
• AnimationControlPanel:
• Pather:
• Snapshot:
• ViewSequence:
• Speeder:
• Toucher:
• Tracker:
• Trackreader:
• Abroller:
• Delta:
• Sum:
• Assembly2Controller:
• Connector:

Other

• Animation:
• Case action:
• False action:
• Follow me:
• Loop action:
• Query action:
• Repeat action:
• Script action:
• True action:
• While action:
• Reset:
• Icon1:
• Icon2:
• Icon3:

Links to Animation WB

• Workbench Wiki: www.freecadbuch.de
• FreeCAD Wiki:
• FreeCAD Forum: https://forum.freecad.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.
• Addons