- [Instructor] In a very similar manner,
I can create a collapse animation
using the animation wizard, as well.
So I'll go back into my animation wizard here,
and now I'll choose Collapse.
Again, we do need an explode view within SOLIDWORKS
to generate this explode and this collapse.
If you don't have an explode view within your project,
you're gonna find that explode and collapse are grayed out
and you'll only be able to select the rotate model.
But again, since we created that explode view,
I now have explode and collapse available to me.
In this case, I'll just choose Collapse
and click Next.
And exactly the same as before.
I'll just give it a start time and a duration.
In this case, I'm not gonna start at six seconds
or zero seconds.
I'm gonna start a little bit later.
So I have my explode from zero to six seconds,
then maybe I'll just hold for two seconds until eight.
So I'm gonna say my start time will be eight seconds, then,
and then I'm gonna say the duration of my collapse
will be another six seconds or so.
And if I'm happy with that, I'll say Finish.
So now we can see if we play through,
and I can hit the Play button
or the Calculate button if this is my first time through.
And I can see the collapse occurring
in the exact opposite manner as my explode.
So my total animation now has an explode
from zero to six seconds,
then it holds for two seconds until eight seconds,
and then it collapses for another six seconds
from eight to 14 seconds.
So let's play through that entire animation.
Hit Start.
Then explode of a few components here.
Then it should hold for about two seconds.
And then should start to collapse those components
back to its original state.