- [Instructor] Now that we've completed our gear assembly,
let's create a simple motion study animation
to see how our gears interact.
First, we'll create a new motion study
by right clicking on the existing Motion study one here
and hitting Create new motion study.
For the type of study, we're going to set it
to be a basic motion rather than animation
because basic motion allows you
to have more realistic movement
and use elements such as motors, springs, cams
and gravity in your video.
We're going to use a motor to rotate our gears.
So let's click on that icon,
there'll be a rotary motor.
For the component direction,
we're going to select the bore of year one
and for the speed,
we're going to set a constant speed of 30
and hit Okay to create our motor.
As you can see, a five second video was created.
So we'll hit Play to see what that looks like.
We can see our gears are spinning as they should.
We'll stop that.
Now we can expand out our video and create new views.
So let's do that.
Let's actually drag this key here
all the way to the ten second mark.
This will create a ten second video
and we want to change the view from the ISO view it's in now
to a front view at five seconds
and then back to the isometric view at 10 seconds.
And we're going to do this
by creating keys under the orientation and camera views.
The first thing we have to do is make sure
that Disable view key creation is not highlighted.
And as you can see here, it's not shaded in,
so we're good to go.
Now, if we drag our timeline to five seconds,
we can set a view and it will create a key there
so that it'll transition from the initial view
when the video starts to the view at five seconds
over the course of this time slot here.
So let's set our view at five seconds to be the front view.
As you can see, a key is created.
Now let's drag the timeline to 10 seconds
and we're going to set our view again to be isometric
and as you can see, another key is created there.
Now that we have our position set,
we can hit the Calculate icon to generate our motion study,
that's this icon here.
And as you can see, we're transitioning to the front view
and then back to the ISO view.
Everything seems to be working correctly.
So our motion study is now complete.
We will stop it.
The last thing we're going to do
is save out a copy of our video as an AVI file.
This will allow us to share the animation with others
without having to run it in SolidWorks.
To do this, we're going to hit the Save animation icon
and we'll save it on our desktop
and let's name it Dear Animation One
and we're saving it as a Microsoft AVI file
and hit Save and hit Okay.