From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Animations

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Click and drag

- [Instructor] So the animation wizard as we saw, is very useful for generating quick and easy animations really with just the click of a button. However, in most cases we may require some more complex animations that can't just be generated from our animation wizard. So, we do of course have many methods to generate more manual animations. So one of the maybe easiest methods to create some manual animations is just using what I would call the click and drag method. Essentially what we can do here is just move around components within our specific timeline and set some key points. So lets take a look at that process. Here I have my brand new animation. Nothing going on so far. So what I can do is just move this time bar to whatever points I'd like. So let's say I'm gonna move this to about two seconds here. And then at two seconds I can place any key points that may represent a change in position, location, color, appearance, whatever it may be for really any component within this…

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