
I don’t need to recreate those views I can run the animation in reverse. Right now, to show the reassembly of those components. I’ll capture that and hide the battery for view number eight. I do want to update this view and you can see that the thumbnail reflects those components that are not visible in this view.įor view number seven, I want to move the battery out of the way. And from here I can use Control/Select to grab the components in question and hide them using the key or by dragging this opacity scale down manually. Now that I’ve moved those components out of the way, I can hide them. I’ll take this last component and capture one more view, so you can see that the thumbnails of each of these are showing those intermediate steps. Then I’m going to remove the plate and capture another view. What this will do is move the screws out of the way.

First, I will Control/Select these two screws by selecting Transform > Translation. For the next view, we’re going to start removing components. We’ll call this the “battery detail” for the next view. I’m going to zoom in to a close-up view of that area and capture that view. We want to show the battery components being removed. The start position will be a new view with the model sitting in the standard ISO position in the middle of the screen. To do that, we need to create our start position. The first step is to start thinking and planning out our views as intermediate steps in the animation. Let’s take the file from scratch and create this animation. Then we will turn to the side and watch these components explode. The animation will be disassembling components to replace a battery before reassembling those components. This is a pre-made version of the animation we’re going to walk through. In this video, I’ll show you how to create a simple animation using SOLIDWORKS Composer views and dragging them into the animation timeline.
