Create and Edit Viewpoint Animations

There are two ways to create viewpoint animations in Navisworks. You can either simply record your real-time walk through, or you can assemble specific viewpoints for Navisworks to interpolate into a viewpoint animation later.

Viewpoint animation is controlled through the Animation tab and the Saved Viewpoints window.

It is worth remembering that you can hide items in viewpoints, override colors and transparencies, and set multiple section planes, and these will all be respected by a viewpoint animation. This way you can easily create powerful viewpoint animations.

Once a viewpoint animation is recorded, you can edit it to set the duration, the type of smoothing, and whether it loops or not.

There is also nothing to stop you from copying viewpoint animations (hold down the CTRL key when dragging an animation on the Saved Viewpoints window), dragging frames off the animation into a blank space on the Saved Viewpoints window to remove them from the viewpoint animation, editing individual frames attributes, and inserting cuts or dragging other viewpoints or viewpoint animations onto the existing one, to continue developing your animations.

Animation Cuts (Pauses)

Cuts in a viewpoint animation are simply points where the camera pauses for a while. They are inserted automatically when you click Pause during the interactive recording of a viewpoint animation, or you can insert them manually into an existing viewpoint animation.

Share Animations

You can export animations to AVI files for playback with Windows Media Player.

For more information, see Export Images and Animations.