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You can already very easily animate an assembly in modern CAD programs by setting up connectors and constraints, which you normally do as a matter of course any
by himinlomax 3y ago
You can already very easily animate an assembly in modern CAD programs by setting up connectors and constraints, which you normally do as a matter of course anyway. There's literally nothing to do, you just click on the "assembly" tab and start dragging parts around.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoYes, in the same way as you can trivially restyle a Word document with a few clicks around the Style section of the ribbon - making it easy to adjust for the demands of your publisher, or to the new corporate color scheme. That is, it's trivial if you carefully followed the best practices, did everything correctly at every step to make sure the internal representation is semantically correct and complete - and not bashed stuff around, copying and pasting and dragging by hand, until it looked okay-ish on the screen, like everyone else does.
- yowzadave 3y agoBut if you want to publish something that will be visible to the public, you can't just export the default output from your CAD app. You want something that fits with your brand's aesthetic/guidelines, that looks professional, that clearly communicates without distraction. These things require consideration. Look at an IKEA diagram—they are carefully designed to make assembly as obvious as possible to a layperson; animations are invariably slower to produce than a static print diagram.