SOLIDWORKS: Making Movies

Course details

SOLIDWORKS boasts movie-making functionality that engineers and product designers can use to tell a story about their designs. These animations can help you sell others on your design ideas, as well as clearly communicate how a product should be built and operated. In this course, Elise Moss steps through how to make a movie of your own in SOLIDWORKS. Elise covers how to create motion studies, work with cameras, create your script, control the appearance of your objects, and work with camera views and movement. To wrap up the course, she goes over rules and best practices that can help you determine the overall message of your movie, craft a great script, set up your model, and more.

Learning objectives
Working with the motion study interface
Rotating, exploding, and collapsing a model
Writing a great script
How to make things move
Creating keypoints for camera views
Writing a script to control appearance
Writing a script that combines appearances, camera views, and movement
Rules for a great script

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Want to create animations
02 - What you should know

1. Introduction to SOLIDWORKS Movie Making

03 - Gallery of animations

2. Exploring the Motion Study Interface

04 - What the different tools do
05 - How the timeline and keypoints work
06 - Understanding the motion browser

3. Starting Off Easy - The Camera Wizard

07 - Rotating the model
08 - Exploding the model
09 - Collapsing the model
10 - Saving and adding views to the animation
11 - Saving the animation
12 - Playing the animation

4. Writing a Great Script

13 - Components to a great script - Lights, camera, action

5. How to Make Things Move

14 - Drag a component
15 - Copying and pasting keypoints
16 - Editing a distance mate
17 - Editing an angle mate
18 - Traveling along a path
19 - Setting up a path
20 - Aligning the camera to the path
21 - Setting up the animation
22 - Creating a walkthrough
23 - Reviewing the animation

6. Creating Keypoints for Camera Views

24 - Creating saved views
25 - Posing the model
26 - Using saved views with keypoints
27 - Writing the script to create the animation
28 - What views when
29 - Reviewing the animation

7. Changing Appearances in Animations

30 - Turning parts invisible
31 - Turning parts transparent
32 - Changing colors
33 - Turning parts visible
34 - Writing a script to control appearance
35 - What changes when
36 - Create the animation using different approaches
37 - Reviewing the appearance animation

8. Elements of a Great Movie - Appearances, Camera Views, and Movement

38 - Writing a script that combines appearances, camera views, and movement
39 - Animate the appearances
40 - Animate the camera views
41 - Animate the movement
42 - Review how the timelines overlap in the motion timeline
43 - Create the animation
44 - Review the animation

9. So, You Want to Make Movies Let's Review

45 - What type of movie do you want to make What is your message
46 - The message guides the script
47 - Reviewing the rules for a great script
48 - Figure out your timeline
49 - What happens when
50 - What makes the movie more entertaining or interesting
51 - Reviewing the rules for file formats when saving your movie
52 - Is the file going to be edited or combined with other footage
53 - Reviewing the rules for setting up your model
54 - Don't use configurations use mates that can be edited
55 - Set up saved views
56 - Create exploded views

Conclusion

57 - Planning makes a better movie