Chapter 33: Animating with MotionManager
Animating with Key Points
In this chapter, I have already shown you a little about key points to introduce the idea, but here
you will learn about how to use them in more detail. You can think of key points as snapshots at
particular moments in time. If you said, “At the 4-second mark, the wheel needs to be three inches
from the wall,” this statement describes a key point. To create a key point, drag the time bar to a
new time, and make a change. Any of the animatable items I listed earlier in the chapter can create
a key point.Getting started
Consider this easy and useful example: a customer wants you to make a little animation of a holder
for a stethoscope that he will show to a potential client in PowerPoint. The holder opens, the
stethoscope slides out, and then the animation is reversed.The assembly with the animation saved in it is on the CD-ROM as Chapter 33 – scopecozy.
sldasm. The assembly and the completed animation timeline is shown in Figure 33.15.FIGURE 33.15The stethoscope animation setup