Video of simulation

bert_fourie

Is there a way to get a video of a simulation happening in Assembly? Can an auto sequence be specified?

coleman

You can animate a mate.....
This is a very limited feature at this point.  I too am looking forward to more advanced animation.  

malay_kumar

We thought video capture can be done using external application. 

@coleman @bert_fourie Can you please list kind of features you would like in animation (ordered by priority if possible). 

coleman

@malay_kumar

I think with onshape collaboration capabilities, an animation feature set will fit perfectly in the onshape package. 

Basic key-framing to animate assemblies would be nice.  
 

bert_fourie

I used a piece of free software called "Screen Capturer". It worked fine and relatively painlessly, but who knows what other gimmicks is now installed on my computer! I tried several applications and this one was the best of the lot. In Onshape I chose the primary rotary relationship, set angular limits, ran a simulation and used Screen Capture to capture a movie at 10 frames/second - the result was good.

I would propose the good folk at Onshape talk to Simsolid - they have an in-build capturing capability which works well - maybe Onshape can "borrow" from them?