Animate an exploded view

You can develop, play, and record animations of exploded views to show the order and path of tweaks in a complex assembly.

Develop an animation

After setting up an exploded view, you can view, edit, and fine-tune it to develop the desired animation.

Set the browser view to Sequence.
Select a task or sequence in the active view, right-click, and select Edit to open the Edit Task and Sequences dialog box.
In the dialog box select a task or sequence, then:
- Click the corresponding play command to view its animation.
- Enter a description for it in the edit box.
- Set the Interval to control the playback speed for the animation.
- Use the view commands on the View tab to change the orientation of the view. Then click Set Camera save a camera view for the selected task.
  Note: To save your changes, click Apply before you edit another task or sequence.
To change the order of the animation, close the dialog box, and reorder the sequences and tweaks in the browser.

Show Me how to animate a presentation view

Record an animation

After developing an animation, you can play it when the presentation file is open or record it to an external file and replay it later. On the Presentation tab, Create panel, click Animate.

On the ribbon, click Presentation tab Create panel Animate .
Set the number of repetitions.
Click one of the play commands to view the animation in the graphics window.
To record the animation to a file, click the record command, then click one of the play commands start recording.

Note: To change the number of Repetitions, click Reset on the dialog box, then enter the new value.