Design Animation Option (DAO)

January 15, 2003

Tom McNaney (tmcnaney@ptc.com)
Solution Specialist
Longwood, FL
(407) 786-2020 x238

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What is DAO?
Design Animation Option
Pro/ENGINEER

Floating Option
Extends native design environment to support insight and collaboration
for the designer and extended product development value chain via
associative animations
- Easy to learn and use during the design process
- Fully integrated into familiar Pro/E UI and data structure
- Fully associative with assembly designs
- Inherits and re-uses design intent from
Pro/E Mechanism Design (MDX)
- Leverages Pro/PHOTORENDER for more
realistic frames and movies
- Generate deliverables as J PEG frames or MPEG movies
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Why use DAO?
Design Animation enables enhanced communication
Further document and communicate design ideas from engineering
Design Reviews
Sales and Marketing
materials
Training materials
Assembly/Disassembly
sequences
Maintenance procedures

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Accessed as an integrated application in Assembly mode
Automated Body definition
Snapshots via drag & drop, packaging, constraints
Key Frame Sequences (kfs) from snapshots
Events (associative anchor for other elements)
Body Locking
Drivers
Mechanism Connections
Dynamic Interference checking
Views & Component Display States
Photo Rendered Animations
Animation timeline for graphical manipulation
Sub-animations
Design Animation Features & Terminology
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How to Access DAO
1. Open Pro/E design assembly
2. Acquire Floating Option
Utilities > Floating Modules > Design Animation
3. Activate Animation mode
Applications > Animation
Access commands via:
- Pull-down menus
- Toolbars
- RMB in Timeline sequencer



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User Interface
Animation
Toolbar
Animation
Timeline
Sequencer
Pull-down
Menu
Design
Assembly
Toolbar
Customization
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Command Structure
Animation
Display Icons
Body Definition
Snapshot
Key Frame Sequence
Lock Bodies
Servo Motor
View @ Time
Display @ Time
Edit Selected
Undo

Redo
Remove
Start
Playback
Export (.fra)
Edit
Default Toolbar
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Workflow
Setup
Key Frames
Optional Elements
Start Animation
Refine
Playback Results
Animation Name
Timeline Domain
Body Definition
Saved Views & Component Display States
Define Snapshots
View @ Time
Display @ Time
Events
Servo Motors
Locking
Validate sequence
Drag and Drop components on timeline

Export to JPEG or MPEG
Shaded or Photorendered
SAVE ASSEMBLY!
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Animation Timeline / Sequencer
Shortcuts
Single select click node with LMB
Multiple select CTRL + click node(s) with LMB
Edit Component Time double-click LMB; or drag & drop
Edit vertical position MMB + drag
Undo shift + LMB
Redo shift + MMB
Context menu RMB
Edit Time Domain double-click timeline
Expand subanimation select circle node at start/end