Animation Workbench

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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: