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2020 (15.0)

Animation > Playback/Capture Settings > Common

To create Display Set and Key Frame animations, you must install the Simulation and Visual Effects module. To use ScheduleReview, you must install the Construction module.

Provides the following functionality for all Smart Review animations:

  • Set the start and end times when creating Display Set and Key Frame animations.

  • Change the animation playback time block (start and end dates) to play either all your animations, or specific ones that are within the same time block.

  • Set the animation playback speed.

  • Set the animation type to show in the playback. For example, click Display sets to show only your Display Set animations. Click Display sets and Key frame if you want to see both Display Set and Key Frame animations.

Options

Start

Sets the start date and time for all animation playback. For Display Set animations, you can set the start date when creating the animation.

Current

Displays the current time.

End

Sets the last date and time for the playback. For Display Set animations, you can set the end date when creating the animation.

The following shortcut keys are also available to set the animation playback type:

  • ALT + K = Key Frame

  • ALT + P = Display Sets

  • ALT + W = ScheduleReview

Even if there are no animations in your project, the Animation menu commands are always enabled if the End date and time is greater than the Start date.

Dynamic update

Sets the playback rate or speed for an animation. The rate is the number of days the animation moves in n number of seconds.

  • Step in days - Selects the number of days per step to advance the current date during playback. The current date and time are automatically incremented. This value also determines the time delta used when capturing display set positional changes.

  • The Step in days setting also determines the Video output length record setting in the Record page of the Animation Playback/Capture Settings dialog box. When you enter a new length, the Step in days setting is automatically changed to correspond to the setting.

  • Per seconds - Sets the number of seconds in between points in the path during a playback. Decimal values, such as 1.5, are accepted. The actual playback time may be slower because of the time of updating the display. That is, the playback can only be as fast as this time plus the time to render the model per update.

The interpolated or tweening points in between the placed points in a Display Set animation path determine the smoothness of the playback. Animation playback granularity is currently down to the second. The number of possible interpolated points is the number of seconds between the times of the two points.

Select animation playback types

Sets one or all types of animations to display. For example, you can play a Display Set animation along with a ScheduleReview animation. Animation types that are not checked are not recorded and are not available in the resulting playback. If you have display sets, key frame view groups, and ScheduleReview tasks defined in the file you have open, Smart Review automatically selects the available playback types.

Set Extents

Updates the Start and End dates to span the entire playback range of the selected animation types. Different animation types could have different start and end dates. Select this option to combine the times of the animation types into one playback length ranging from the earliest start time to the latest end time. For example:

  1. If you select Display sets and Key frame animation types, and then click Set Extents, the Start and End dates change to include the times of both animation types for the playback.

  2. Click Play on the Animation Player or Sequencer to see selected animation types in the playback, starting at the earliest time of the animations.

If Smart Review detects display set animations, key frame view groups, and active ScheduleReview projects, the animation types are automatically selected.