The Animate Menu contains a number of commands that enable or disable different settings during animation. Any of these Animation Settings can be changed during shape animation.
If checked, shape values for all DOFs on the structure model with Interpolated Links are animated by evaluating the Interpolated M# Links
If not checked, only the Interpolated M# Links are not used during animation
Animation with Using Interpolated M# Links Disabled.
Animation with Using Interpolated Links Enabled.
Sweep animation is achieved by sweeping the cursor and M# values at the current cursor position are displayed as the shape
Sweeps through the shapes,displaying each shape for one or more cycles of Sine Dwell animation
The number of cycles of animation is specified on the Animation tab in the File | Shape Table Options box
During animation, the current shape is modulated by multiplying it by a different sinusoidal value (between -1 & +1)
Drag the cursor to a desired location to display the shape at the current cursor location
During animation, the current shape is modulated by multiplying it by a different sinusoidal value (between -1 & +1)
Click on a Select Shape button to display that shape
Same as Sine Dwell, but shapes are not modulated with sinusoidal values
Press the Left or Right Arrow key on the keyboard to change the cursor position to the next or previous sample
Same as Sine Dwell, but shapes are not modulated with sinusoidal values
Press the Left or Right Arrow key to display the next or previous shape
When enabled, each shape component is divided by the maximum component of the shape.
When Dwell animation is selected, Auto Scaling is automatically enabled unless Fixed Scaling is enabled.
When enabled, each shape is divided by the maximum of all data in Data Block or Acquisition window M#s
When Sweep animation is selected, Relative scaling is automatically enabled unless Fixed scaling is enabled.
When enabled, each shape is divided by the maximum shape component of all data in the Shape Table
When enabled, each shape is scaled using a user-defined fixed scale factor.
When fixed scaling is selected, a dialog box is opened
If an animating structure model has the following values;
The largest structure coordinate = 100 Length Units.
The Animation Amplitude = 1.
The largest shape component (M# value) = 10.
To fix the maximum amplitude of an animated shape so that it is 20% of the largest structure coordinate.
Shape Amplitude = 0.20 x 100 = (Fixed Scale Factor) x (1) x (10)
Therefore: Fixed Scale Factor = 20/10 = 2