MOVEMENT THROUGH MACHINE
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Re: [Tutorial] Animator Quick Start
Subject: Animator (Fredo6) – Simple Beam Movement Through Machine Animation
Hello everyone,
I'm new to Animator by Fredo6 and am trying to create a very simple industrial animation for sales training purposes.
I have a SketchUp model of a glulam beam sanding machine. The machine itself remains stationary, and I simply want to animate a glulam beam moving through the machine.
My objective is:
Beam starts at the machine entrance.
Beam moves through the machine.
Beam exits the machine.
Eventually I would like to rotate the beam 90° or 180° and run it through again to demonstrate different sanding processes.
The beam is a separate SketchUp Group and can be selected independently from the machine.
So far I have:- Installed LibFredo6
- Installed Animator v4.6a
- Created a new film
- Opened the Clip Editor and Positioner tools
- Selected the beam group
However, I cannot determine the correct workflow to create the first movement animation.
When I open Positioner → Manage Positioners and click "Save current position as...", nothing appears to happen. No position is created and no prompt appears.
What is the correct sequence of steps to:- Register the beam as an animated object (actor?)
- Create a starting position
- Create an ending position
- Animate the beam moving from Point A to Point B
- Preview and export the animation
I am not trying to animate machinery, cameras, or complex assemblies. I simply need a beam to travel through a stationary machine.
If anyone has a step-by-step example for moving a single group/component through a model using Animator v4.6a, I would greatly appreciate the help.
Thank you. -
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You need to use the Clip Editor (first icon on toolbar) to use the GUI to add a Movement
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Thank you, but how do you select the object to move
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Did you click New Movement?
It will refactor the GUI to a dedicated Movement panel.
The order of operation would be pick your transformation choice then select the object to apply that transformation to.
You don't pre-select objects. Pick type then object to apply type.
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got it thanks
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I seem to be having problems making a MP4... probably doing something wrong. Is there an easy process?
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Is there an easy process?
Did you install FFmpeg?
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