Reversing sequence in Inventor Presentation

[Anonymous]

Hi

Im doing a presentation of an assembly. Making a vid that shows how to assembly a product with a lot of parts, 30-40. (Inventor Pro 2017)

So I start with the assembly, exploding it. Setting cam positions gets confusing, since the vid is going to play in reverse.

Is there a way to reverse the timeline, after explotion?

It would make it so much easier. 

I believe I found a post on some forum, explaining how to do it for an earlier version of Inventor, the other day. (Think they said to right click something in the model view box, selecting something etc) I cant find the post, since i dont remember what words I googled. Anyway, I could not find the same options in Inventor 2017.

[Anonymous]

Also:

Is it possible to delete and re-assosiate storyboards?
I have several storyboards in one presentation, but cant delete the last one, and changes made in one storyboard, does not change in the next one.

Insight appreciated 🙂

[SašoPrijatelj]

Hi,

I don't think it's possible to directly reverse the timeline. Maybe you can try this:

- quickly explode assembly. Use round values (50, 100...) for trail distances

- create new storyboard that starts from the end of the first one

- Now you have exploded model to start with. Use trails to assemble the model. Use round values from before if you want precise fit.

It's not the best workaround but for assemblies of few 10 parts it shouldn't be too complicated.

[Anonymous]

Thanks, that might be a solution. 🙂

Now ive made several storyboards, so that each part assembled could be easier managed. When i go back to change a tweak in one storyboard, the changes dont follow into the next storyboard! So annoyihng! Hours wasted!