ProE Animations Guide for ME170 By: Mike Philpott Animate the following simple pneumatic cylinder. 1.

. Assemble the 2 parts together using a cylinder or slider connection (see Joint Connections attached)

2. Create snapshots at intervals desired. Use the icon to click and drag the mechanism to the desired locations. Expand the snapshots dialog box to view and record the snapshots:

Use the camera

icon to record each snapshot. You can view, move to and check .

each snapshot with the spectacle icon

3. When you are happy with the snapshots, enter animation mode by Applications -> Animation on the top ProE menu bar. 4. Create the Key frame sequence (KFS) with the film strip icon allows you to add each snapshot with the total of 10 units (ie seconds). . The dialog box

icon at different time intervals up to a

5. Now you can start the animation with the start icon

and wait for it to run through .

once. After this initialization you can use the movie icon to fully control playback