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ilyachaban16-Pearl
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March 26, 2025
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Creo simulate *.gif export

  • March 26, 2025
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Hello,
I'm trying to export *.gif files from a modal analysis, but the quality is extremely poor. The only available formats are *.avi and *.mpg — which is fine, I can convert them afterward — but the video quality is unacceptable.

I don’t understand why I can export simulation images as *.jpeg in absurdly high resolution, yet when it comes to videos, the quality is so low. There are compression artifacts, text becomes unreadable, and any small details in the model are completely lost in a blur of pixels.

Is there any way to improve the quality of exported video or gif files?

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Best answer by ilyachaban

So, let's try approach you've recommended.

step 1: create mapkey which goes through all frames.
step 2: create mapkey which makes screenshots
step 3: join them together

 

NOW WE HAVE ALL SCREENSHOTS AT THE SAME FOLDER( MAPKEY IS RIGID SO IF THERE IS MORE OR LESS FRAMES MAPKEY WON'T WORK PROPERLY )

step 4: create something which is callable from creo and can make gif from screenshots for us
step 5: creating python script which parces folder and collects frames
step 6: creating part of code which joins all frames into 1 gif
step 7: creating *.bat file which is now callable from PTC creo (bat file can call compiled python as *.exe file or we can do it and call python script by py command)
step 8: test everything
step 9: WIP create modifications which will allow flexibility of this mapkey(more/less frames, go through modes, etc. )

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RESULT:

output.gif

 

1 reply

skunks
skunks19-Tanzanite
19-Tanzanite
March 26, 2025

I use the free software CamStudio 😂

 

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ilyachaban16-PearlAuthor
16-Pearl
March 26, 2025

😂This seems to be a solution for a specific case. However, we often use mapkeys to export multiple results in one go. If we want to export results directly from Creo, this functionality needs to be supported by PTC Creo Simulate Results.

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Chris321-Topaz I
21-Topaz I
March 27, 2025

PTC hasn't updated this since the code was written and back then that resolution was "good enough". I have done this two different ways:

 

1. Write a macro that saves a frame of the animation as an image and then clicks on the next button and repeats for all of the frames. Then you can take all of those exported frames and make your own GIF from them. GIMP supports this if you put them all on a layers. PowerPoint can do it too if you put the images on separate slides.

 

2. Use ScreentoGIF. This is what I use most of the time because it is very user friendly

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