# Pausing at Specific Animation Frame!

**URL:** <https://forums.sketchup.com/t/pausing-at-specific-animation-frame/172586>\
**Category:** Pro\
**Tags:** sketchup\
**Created:** [August 13, 2021, 10:50am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/pausing-at-specific-animation-frame/172586 "2021-08-13T10:50:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aboammar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/aboammar/32/39344_2.png) [@Aboammar](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/Aboammar)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2021, 10:50am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/pausing-at-specific-animation-frame/172586/1 "2021-08-13T10:50:21Z")

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So I created a simple animation with 2 scenes. I can play and pause the entire animation but I want to be able to pause at specific frame number. Any idea?

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**Author:** ![dezmo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/dezmo/32/51058_2.png) [@dezmo](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/dezmo)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2021, 11:34am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/pausing-at-specific-animation-frame/172586/2 "2021-08-13T11:34:41Z")

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You can do it manually by play-pause where you want.  
or  
Copy paste this code and hit Return to Ruby Console:

```auto
Sketchup.active_model.pages.show_frame_at(1.8)

```

Where the number in a brackets is a relative time to frame where you want to go (in seconds)

![frame](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/original/3X/f/e/fe548750cf8997b07f460f29bb3637e2d89978df.gif)

Source:  
The [#show\_frame\_at](https://ruby.sketchup.com/Sketchup/Pages.html#show_frame_at-instance_method) method is used to show a frame in animation (of the slide show) at a given time in seconds.

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**Author:** ![Aboammar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/aboammar/32/39344_2.png) [@Aboammar](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/Aboammar)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2021, 12:51am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/pausing-at-specific-animation-frame/172586/3 "2021-08-14T00:51:54Z")

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> [@dezmo](#):
>
> You can do it manually by play-pause where you want.

I already tried that but the animation is faster than my hand and by the time I click pause, few frames already passed.

> [@dezmo](#):
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> Copy paste this code and hit Return to Ruby Console

So there is not direct and easy way than this? How about an extension for this purpose?