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Introduction[edit | edit source]
Animation Toolkit for FreeCAD
This Workbench can be used to create sequences of pictures.
It is still under construction - all contributions welcomed ...
References[edit | edit source]
- Author: microelly2
- Home page: Animation
- Source code on github: Animation
Installation[edit | edit source]
This workbench can be installed from the Addon Manager. For manual installation see Installing more workbenches.
Tools[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
- 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