Manipulating Geometry

When it comes to animating objects, Navisworks provides five tools to manipulate the geometry. They can be used individually or in combination to fully animate the objects. As you'll recall from the earlier exercise, you used the Translate animation set to animate an object from one point to another. In addition to the basic translation function, Navisworks provides tools to rotate, scale, and change color or transparency. In the next series of exercises, you'll use these manipulation controls to modify objects in the model and capture those changes as keyframes.

Before working with the various geometry manipulation tools, you need to define the objects as animation sets. You must be able to quickly select the model objects ...

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