Open/close doors/drawers

[ntxdave]

You have some good examples of this.....perhaps you could post one for him or share an skp that shows him how it is done.

[Dave R]

@ntxdave said:

You have some good examples of this.....perhaps you could post one for him or share an skp that shows him how it is done.

I'll have to hunt one up when I get home from work.

[JQL]

Dave's answer is spot on but I think it should be clear that there is no official way of making Dynamic Components "open/close doors/drawers" per scene. If you want to control that per scene, it's better to follow the layer aproach than the DC aproach.

EDIT: Well you could have layers within your DC, but I guess the cool thing about the DC and open close movements is the animate aproach and that is not possible with scenes driving the animation, unfortunatelly.

[ntxdave]

If you want an animated version, you can also use one of the animation plugins. I would recommend Animator. It would be a simple process.

I think the real key though is how @onebad wants to view the things. Two images, a movie, an animated gif, or on a web page with the ability to click and watch the drawers/doors open.

[Dave R]

Here's an example of what I was describing with the use of layers. In the first screen shot notice the visibility for the "Open" layer is turned off. And in the second, it's the closed layer that is turned off.

[ntxdave]

I knew you would have a perfect example of exactly what he was asking for - even in his wood working field.

[Dave R]

Thanks Dave.

[onebad]

I am hoping to animate the movement within a scene. Thanks for the info, I'll take all the help I can get.

[Dave R]

Than you should look at Animator and see if that will get you what you need.

BTW, you should be using SketchUp Pro, not Make.

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