Animation Lab is a plug-in for TurboCAD that does exactly what you’d expect. It comes in a DVD box with the manual as a printable PDF file on the disk.

I’ve played around with it and easily managed to make boxes fly around, a bit out of control, but it looks like it would not be too difficult to get the hang of it. Unfortunatly there are no video tutorials as yet.

It describes the movements of the objects as the ‘scenario’ i.e. the sequence of events going on in your drawing. In order to create a scenario for your drawing, you need to define which elements of the drawing will be changed, how these changes will take place and at which moment in time.

You need to enter in the list of actors, i.e. the moving parts, each element of the drawing which is going to change according to the scenario. You can define the ‘part’ of an actor – a set of commands that describe its behavior on each step of the scenario.

The actor’s ‘part’ is stored in the TurboCAD object, and it stays with the object when it is modified or copied, as well as when the drawing is saved in a TCW file.

Examples of drawings done using Animation Lab can be found by clicking here.

I have added a new section under Training called New CAD Training, this section is for Don Cheke to explain what are included on his tutorials that we will soon be selling on the Avanquest website. Please feel free to take a look through and soon you will be able to buy the proper tutorials. 

Thanks, 

Paul The CAD