Can't find animate simulation results button?? nuub Q

[salesHSMXH]

So I created a static sim in 360. everything looks awesome. results are saved, wanted to capture the plots as animations, BUT,

on my tool bar, there isn't any "animate" or play button options under the results tab.??? Just view results?

I've looked everywhere, but no animation of simulations available?

What am I missing, I've read animation is supposed to be available for static results.

john

[salesHSMXH]

Per the autodesk instructions none of this is available under my results tab.

This applies to (Static Stress Analysis, Nonlinear Static Stress, Thermal Stress, Structural Buckling, and Modal Frequencies Analysis) or with changing period of the observed mode (Modal Analysis).

Maximum number of animation steps is 100.

1. In the Results tab, select Result Tools > Animate.
2. In the Animate dialog, specify the number of Steps, analogous to images that you want to cycle through to see the displacement changes.
   • To have a smoother or slower animation, increase the number of steps.
   • Valid numbers range from 2 to 100 steps.
3. Click Recordto create an AVI (MOV on Mac), specifying the save location as part of that process.
4. Specify the playback Speed. There are five speeds from Slowest to Fastest.

5. Click Play

   to see the animation.

[henderh · Accepted solution]

Hi @salesHSMXH,
Do you see it when you open one of the Sim accuracy verification samples? I see it for StaticStress_AVE-01:


There's a chance that the Animate command icon has become unpinned from the toolbar (do you see the Animate command in the Result Tools drop-down?)

Another way to get to the command is to press the "S" keyboard key that will bring up the Shortcuts dialog.  Then type Animate to see if the command appears in the list of available commands.

Hope this helps!
Best regards,

[salesHSMXH]

yes, awesome. the shortcut brought it up. Still learning my way around Fusion. Thank you so much for your response!!

That much less of a nube! Fusions simulation is WAY more powerful of a tool than my solidwurks standard seat.

john

[salesHSMXH]

Cool, But, I choose two way animate and it only records the first half of the displacement, not the return to no load condition. Am I missing something else? two way button was chosen.

john

[henderh]

Hi John,

Many thanks for getting back to us that the workaround worked for you.

We weren't aware that our two-way doesn't get recorded two-way. The issue ID-60565 is logged now that we'll strive to address in an upcoming Fusion update.

Best regards,

[rmerlob]

Hi, I'm having this exact issue but the solution posted does not work for me, the button disappeared completely.

Any thoughts?

Never mind, I was in temperature results on a stress-temperature analysis, had to switch to a different result to get the animate button, its weird because i would potentially like to animate displacement while displaying temperature but I guess this is intended behavior.