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TomBurton1-Visitor
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June 27, 2012
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Animation in Creo Illustrate 2

  • June 27, 2012
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I can't seem to create even simple animations in Creo Illustrate 2! (That's not entirely true - sometimes it looks like I've made one, but it plays backwards!!!) Actions don't result in timeline entires.

I've tried to follow the animation examples in the Precision LMS My Learning, but those don't work either.

I tried using Creo Illustrate 1 on an assembly that I had tried to animate in IIlustrate 2 --- It worked perfectly as expected.

Operator error?

Thanks in advance!

Tom Burton

p.s. - Seems like these discussions are getting less used! Where is everybody?

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VladimirN24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
June 27, 2012

Hello,

Tom Burton wrote:

...I've tried to follow the animation examples in the Precision LMS My Learning, but those don't work either...

Can you please attach your 3cdi file to the message?

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TomBurton1-VisitorAuthor
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June 27, 2012

Here's a simple 3cdi file. I'm trying to animate the shaft sliding out of the roller.

Many thanks in advance!

Tom Burton

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VladimirN24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
June 28, 2012

Did you use 2.0 M010 service release?

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VladimirN24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
June 28, 2012

The solution of this problem:

1. Find and delete the complete folder "Illustrate" (this folder contains the user settings), which is located in the following path: "C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\PTC\Illustrate" (in Windows Vista and Win7), or in Windows XP: "C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Application Data\PTC\Illustrate".

2. Reinstall Creo Illustrate 2.0.

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TomBurton1-VisitorAuthor
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June 28, 2012

Vladimir -

Here's what we wound up having to do:

1. We used the Windows Uninstall to uninstall Creo Illustrate.

2. We deleted the folder you described above.

3. We used RegEdit to delete any register keys that included the term "creo".

4. We reinstalled Creo Illustrate 2.0.

and it now works perfectly!

Thanks for your help.

Tom Burton

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24-Ruby III
VladimirN24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
June 29, 2012

No problem.

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24-Ruby III
VladimirN24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
June 29, 2012

Tom Burton wrote:

...p.s. - Seems like these discussions are getting less used! Where is everybody?...

Just a two of us .

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AnneM.Simoncell1-Visitor
1-Visitor
June 29, 2012

...but there may be others like me who have just been lurking in the background, in the hope of learning a little something about Creo, but never have input to what's being discussed ...so please, continue talking! thanks!

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24-Ruby III
VladimirN24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
June 29, 2012

Hello,

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TomBurton1-VisitorAuthor
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July 2, 2012

Oops!

After we did all the stuff I noted previously it worked fine.

For 1 day.

I was able to create a multi-step animation, modify some of the time durations, all that sort of good stuff. Some aspects seemed like voodoo (getting an annotation to appear starting at a certain point and disappear when desired), but I felt like I was making good progress. I even exported a movie!

But now it's back to useless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I started trying to improve the animation. It quickly went flaky, and I couldn't edit any tracks or keys.

I then tried some simple animation using simple parts (including the .asm I had sent you last week). No tracks, no keys, no timeline. When I tried to playback the animation I had tried to make, it played backwards.

Any idea what's going on?

Tom Burton

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24-Ruby III
VladimirN24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
July 3, 2012

Tom,

Can you plesae record a demo video from your program screen?

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TomBurton1-VisitorAuthor
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July 3, 2012

Vladimir -

Does the attached work? Open the zip file, and then double-click the file.

Again, thanks in advance,

Tom Burton

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