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.
December 27, 2009 at 2:25 pm
I have looked at Animation Lab and its looks great, however a bit put off by the price as all I really want is to generate a walk through – I do not need to animate what I am looking at.
As far as I can tell this is hard to do in teh basic TurboCAd Pro v 16. – someting of a dissappointment.
Is there some wayto make a simple walkthrough into an AVI file without extra software. I suppose one could do lots of screen captures and then stitch them together but perhaps there is an easier way.
December 29, 2009 at 11:50 am
David,
It is on offer in December at half price £60. Give me a call in the first week of the year and I’ll do it at that price. However I’m not sure that it’s what you are looking for. Creating a walk through with TurboCAD Pro is easy enough, so you just need to record that action. I have done this in the past for some training videos that I made, but these were line drawinings and I don’t think that the package that I used would handle rendered images. Give me a week to check out the best way to do this. Perhaps give me a call mid January and I should have an answer.
Paul
Paul
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