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Animation by Graphical Positioning

A simple way to create an animation in a motion study is to drag components to specify the positions of
the moving parts of a mechanism at different times.

You can include appearance changes or suppress features for a time period during the animation. You
can insert keypoints along the feature timeline to specify the times when feature position or other feature
changes occur.

In this lesson, you learn the following:

l Create an Animation motion study.
l Drag components in the graphics area to specify component positions at different keypoints along the

timeline.
l Run the animation.
l Modify the animation by changing the component positions at different keypoints along the timeline.
l Modify the animation by changing the appearance of components during a time interval.
l Change the playback mode.
l Save the animation as a movie.

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