topic Re: Joint animation in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Joint animation

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 20:11:45 GMT

Is it possible to export a joint animation, if not can the Animation environment be used to reproduce the joint animation?

Re: Joint animation

TrippyLighting — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 20:58:02 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

Is it possible to export a joint animation, if not can the Animation environment be used to reproduce the joint animation?

Not sure if you can export it, however the animation workspace does not make use of joints. Dissapointing, really!

Re: Joint animation

joel.palioca — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 21:23:58 GMT

So the answer to both your questions is yes to an extent.

It is possible to export a joint animation by creating a motion study, and then rendering out the motion study. Here is a video from a couple years ago that shows what I am talking about, though some of the UI may be a little out of date. https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/fusion-360/learn-explore/caas/video/youtube/watch-v-GJD2-u0s2z0.html

As you can see leveraging a motion study and rendering out the video lets us export out the animation of a single joint, or if we so chose we could have multiple joints involved in the motion study. The most common thing I see missed during this process is to create a motion study, you must:

1. Render out an image via the cloud of the design with the motion study

2. Go to the rendered image, and you should see a new icon in the upper left allowing you to render the motion study.

One that that has been brought up in the past on the ideastation is having joints automatically converted into the animation space, while this isn't there today you are still able to simulate the motion with animations but it does require some extra work.

Hope this helps!

Re: Joint animation

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 20:31:07 GMT

Very helpful Joel thanks a lot.

Re: Joint animation

TrippyLighting — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 21:52:43 GMT

I stand corrected. Thanks!

Re: Joint animation

Anonymous — Sat, 04 Feb 2017 15:03:44 GMT

So WHY doesn't the animation workspace honor joints already created? This seems like a no brainer.

Re: Joint animation

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 14:00:17 GMT

Just came across this limitation and I too would like to know if any progress has been made on this.