Animated 3D models of Steam Engines

[atmaja]

Thanks brother,,

[dferbas]

Hi,
I am trying to animate exploded assembly of box parts with 2 pbs inside (both imported from a step model, made by Altium). I started with Exploded Assembly WB, you can see video https://www.solarmonitor.cz/download/pu ... -LU/video/. Now I am trying to animate pcb exchange with the Animation WB. I have an issue when I want to put 2 Placers in a Manager and both Placers are using Pathers to move along a BezCurve, Speeder is used for a bakward move. When I trie to do this an error occure and object Pather is moved out from the Manager:

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Exception (Wed Feb 10 20:29:41 2021): Object can only be in a single Group  
Unhandled Base::Exception caught in GUIApplication::notify.
The error message is: Object can only be in a single Group

Then a tedious job follows - remove link from Speeder to Pather, remove link from Placer.src to the same Pather, move Pather back to Manager and setup links again. Any idea?
2nd question is - what is a proper way tp configure Styler, to change box transparency at the beginning of animation? MTB

[dferbas]

I found a workaround - objects an be manipulated in the tree, while they have no links between them. Solution for now is to remove links, manipulate objects, e.g. remove and add to containers and then recreate links.

Sorry for c&p at end of code, I needed a fast workaround.

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doc = App.ActiveDocument
cam = doc.getObjectsByLabel("My_Photographer GPRS")[0]
cam.fn = "C:/workspace/Altium/modules/SM3-PG/rev A/Released/MBAExportSTEP/video_GPRS"
cam.camDirection = u"View"

def remove_objects(name_speeder, name_placer, name_pather, name_mgr):
	speeder = doc.getObjectsByLabel(name_speeder)[0]
	placer = doc.getObjectsByLabel(name_placer)[0]
	pather = doc.getObjectsByLabel(name_pather)[0]
	mgr = doc.getObjectsByLabel(name_mgr)[0]
	
	speeder.target = None
	placer.src = None
	mgr.removeObject(placer)
	mgr.removeObject(pather)
	mgr.removeObject(speeder)

def add_objects(name_speeder, name_placer, name_pather, name_mgr):
	speeder = doc.getObjectsByLabel(name_speeder)[0]
	placer = doc.getObjectsByLabel(name_placer)[0]
	pather = doc.getObjectsByLabel(name_pather)[0]
	mgr = doc.getObjectsByLabel(name_mgr)[0]
	
	mgr.addObject(speeder)
	mgr.addObject(pather)
	mgr.addObject(placer)
	
def order_objects(name_speeder, name_placer, name_pather, name_mgr):
	speeder = doc.getObjectsByLabel(name_speeder)[0]
	placer = doc.getObjectsByLabel(name_placer)[0]
	pather = doc.getObjectsByLabel(name_pather)[0]
	mgr = doc.getObjectsByLabel(name_mgr)[0]
	
	speeder.target = pather
	placer.src = pather

remove_objects("My_Speeder", "My_Placer_GPRS", "My_Pather", "My_Manager_GPRS")
#remove_objects("My_Speeder001", "My_Placer_NB-IoT", "My_Pather001", "My_Manager_NB-IoT")
remove_objects("My_Speeder001", "My_Placer_NB-IoT", "My_Pather001", "My_Manager_GPRS")

add_objects("My_Speeder", "My_Placer_GPRS", "My_Pather", "My_Manager_GPRS")
add_objects("My_Speeder001", "My_Placer_NB-IoT", "My_Pather001", "My_Manager_GPRS")

order_objects("My_Speeder", "My_Placer_GPRS", "My_Pather", "My_Manager_GPRS")
order_objects("My_Speeder001", "My_Placer_NB-IoT", "My_Pather001", "My_Manager_GPRS")