- [Instructor] Filters can be used
during the animation process.
Just to make your animations much easier to edit
or make changes to or organize and so on.
Let's take a look down at our motion manager here.
Notice in this case, fairly simple assembly,
just has a few different components and simple animation,
very simple animation, only five seconds or so.
It's not a ton of different things to change,
but imagine as a more complex project,
maybe it's an assembly with 50
or 100 different parts within it,
so this list would become much much larger
as well as a whole bunch of things occurring
within my animation,
so a bunch of different keys and change parts and so on.
I can use filters to help me select
exactly what I'm looking for.
I have filter options right here.
By default we have no filter which just means I'm seeing
everything, all components, all animations, everything.
But I can also filter what I'm seeing here.
For example I have filter animated, if I click there,
it's gonna change to now I'm only seeing what exactly
is being animated or is changing within my animation.
So it's gonna throw away everything that's not changing
or has no changes within the animation.
I also have the ability to filter for driving options only,
so those would show motors and so on.
If I click on this, it's only showing me my rotary motor,
or if I had any motors or springs, gravity, and so on.
A very useful one that I use probably most often
is the filter selected.
That one can grab whatever it is I like to filter,
it can be an appearance, it can be a part,
it can be whatever it may be.
Maybe let's say I'm only worried about looking at link one,
so I'm gonna click on link one here,
and then I'll go up to filter selected,
and it's gonna show only the selected item,
so now it filters everything within my animation,
and it's only showing me what's going on with my link one.
So this can just be very useful in larger projects.
Makes editing easier, makes reading your animations easier,
filters can be very useful for that.
And then of course once finished,
I can always jump back to no filters,
and that's gonna show you all of your information
for your entire project.