Door animation difficulties

SketchUp Pro
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Anyone?

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Select all scenes, click to show details properties in the scenes panel and uncheck the camerasetting:

allscenes
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Thanks for your reply. It’s hard to see exactly what the different options say in your gif.

Do you somehow copy the scenes to duplicate them so that they can be shown from a different camera angle?

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You can not (natively,eg.without ruby) copy scenes.

The scenes were created by you allready, but, all have the same camerasettings. If you uncheck that property, you can have different camera settings, or, views, angles.
All I did was orbiting to a different view, select all scenes in the scenepanel (click once on the top scene, hold shift and click once on the bottom scene, kind of how you would select files in a folder…)

Then click the update button, which pops up a window were you can select the properties you would want to be the same (this update-action)
Now all the selected scenes inherit the just orbited view!

If you want to more flexible with camera settings (not having to update all the time, you can unselect the cameraproperty for all scenes in the detail area of the scenepanel (little arrow down, ‘Show Detail’)
Now, you can zoom around to your likings, indepently of all the other settings.

In your case, the only properties that influence the ‘animation’ are the visible layers, so, in theory, you can uncheck all but that property in all the ‘animation’ scenes and create scenes that do not participate in the animation scenes for different angles, styles, etc

Since you only have 9 layers, 17 included in animation scenes would be enough. I have made some ‘Toggle’ scenes that are excluded from the animation (checkbox in Show Detail panel) which turns off the panels right from the drawer, two with camera angles and two different styles, all solely with the apropiate properties checked>>

Bookcase Demos1.skp (412.2 KB)

result:

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Hi, what attribute functions can I use to animate this door?

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to open like this
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It’s rotation + move to corner.

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Two ways, first with axis at center (half door thickness in on hinge side), is most likely method of hinge. Second with axis at front and position changes as rotates, requires a very fancy hinge. Both require clearance and the “backing off” of the door.

door hinge techniques.skp (81.5 KB)

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Thanks, this is what I needed.