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About the Animation User Interface
The Animation tab consists of commands, tabs, and playback buttons. Click Applications > Animation to open the Animation tab.
Model Animations Group
Use these commands to create new animations, to view animations, and define animation settings
• Animation Settings—Opens the Settings dialog box.
• Animation Interpolation—Opens the Interpolation dialog box.
• Animation Display—Opens the Entity Display dialog box.
• New Animation—Click the arrow to display options for creating new animations.
◦ Explode—Opens the Define Animation dialog box to define an explode animation.
◦ Snapshot—Opens the Define Animation dialog box.
◦ Import from MDO—Opens the Define Animation dialog box to import a playback file.
Playback Group
Use these commands to playback and export an animation.
• Playback—Opens the Playbacks dialog box.
• Click Playback to display the Export—Exports the animation FRA file to your working directory.
Create Animation Group
Use these commands to create and manage your animations.
• Key Frame Sequence—Opens the Key Frame Sequence dialog box.
• Event—Opens the Event Definition dialog box.
• Remove—Removes the selected entities in the animation timeline.
• Manage Key Frame Sequences—Opens the Key Frame Sequences dialog box.
• Click Create Animation to display additional commands.
◦ Selected—Allows editing of the selected object.
◦ Subanimation—Opens the Include in Animation dialog box to include a second animation in the selected animation.
Graphic Design Group
Use these commands to change the timeline display.
• View @ Time—Opens the View at Time dialog box.
• Trans @ Time—Opens the Transparency at Time dialog box.
• Style @ Time—Opens the Style at Time dialog box.
Mechanism Design Group
Use these commands to define movement and bodies in the mechanism assembly.
• Drag Components—Opens the Drag dialog box.
• Servo Motor—Opens the Servo Motor Definition dialog box.
• Manage Servo Motors—Opens the Servo Motors dialog box.
• Connection Status—Opens the Connection Status dialog box.
• Lock Bodies—Opens the Lock Bodies dialog box.
• Body Definition—Opens the Bodies dialog box.
Timeline Group
Use these commands to change the display of the timeline.
• —Zooms in on the timeline.
• —Zooms out on the timeline.
• —Resets the timeline zoom level.
• —Opens the Animation Time Domain dialog box.