Animation of rotating geometry

freddyk · December 19, 2012, 22:23

I have a rotor blade that was set up using the rotor wizard and rotates at 17000RPM. Is it possible to show a (slowed-down) animation of the blade rotating, with nothing else shown, just as geometry? I have displayed the blades using a periodic transform so all blades are showing, I just would like to show that they are moving via an animation

-Chris

chris12345 · December 20, 2012, 08:29

You can save each time-step as a .png file and from there you can make yourself an animation.

To take a snapshot at each time step go to your scene---> attributes-----> update

Go to the update properties and set it to "save to file".

December 19, 2012, 22:23	Animation of rotating geometry	#1
freddyk New Member Anonymous Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Rotherham, England Posts: 13 Rep Power: 15	I have a rotor blade that was set up using the rotor wizard and rotates at 17000RPM. Is it possible to show a (slowed-down) animation of the blade rotating, with nothing else shown, just as geometry? I have displayed the blades using a periodic transform so all blades are showing, I just would like to show that they are moving via an animation -Chris

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December 20, 2012, 08:29		#2
chris12345 New Member Christian Rodriguez Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 9 Rep Power: 14	You can save each time-step as a .png file and from there you can make yourself an animation. To take a snapshot at each time step go to your scene---> attributes-----> update Go to the update properties and set it to "save to file".