- [Instructor] Another very useful tool
when generating manual animations
with the click and drag method
is to use the Move with Triad tools.
What I can do here is just right click
on any component I'd like to move
and I have this option here, Move with Triad.
And what this does, it generates my triad
on my specific component, the gear in this case
and with this now I can just have a better ability
to fine tune my movements with my click and drag.
So, I can move exactly about the X, Y or Z axis
and I can also rotate a little bit more exactly
with this Move with Triad command as well.
For example, let's try to make an animation here
where I wanted to rotate that gear wheel
say exactly 45 degrees.
So, I might go, first move my timeline bar here
to about two seconds,
so I'm gonna wanna rotate that gear
from about zero to two seconds there.
I'm going to click on my gear
and again I could just click and drag here
but that would just be kind of eyeballing the angle
and I'd just be kind of getting close
to about 45 degrees but if I right click
and use the Move with Triad,
I can just become a little bit more precise this way.
So, now if I want to rotate, in this case,
about this Z axis here,
and I can click and drag to rotate,
so I'm going exactly about that axis
and it actually gives me kind of a visual
of the exact among of degrees I might be rotating here.
So, let's say I want about 45 degrees here,
so right now I'm at exactly 45 degrees.
So, it's just the same as your click and drag
except it gives you this triad
to pretty much fine tune your movements
a little bit better there
and now if I'm happy with that,
I can place a key at two seconds
and of course I can calculate this.
But we should be able to see again calculator play through
just from zero to two seconds.
It's gonna be rotating that exact 45 degrees I set.