Hi all - I’m trying to animate a component in my sketchup when it is rotated around an axis. I’ve watched 3 youtube videos and none of them seem to work for this sketch. The component is a rotating surface on a workbench design, and I’ve tried adding scene 1 of the start position and scene 2 with the component rotated 180 degrees. When I switch back to scene 1, it seems the rotation affected both scenes. None of the tutorials I’ve watched works. I’m using sketchup 2017 desktop. Appreciate any advice, thanks!
Basic scene animation doesn’t move geometry. You need to create copies of the moving object and make each visible in subsequent scenes.
So, make 3 layers, and three copies of your saw, as a radial array, assign each to a layer then make scene one with only the first one showing, second scene with the second one and so on…
The more scenes and copies the more fluid the animation.
Here’s an illustration of what Box describes. Three copies of the same components, each set in a different position, each set give a different layer/tag. Only one layer tag is visible per scene.
