Animating with an Active Review Using the Mechanism Player

The Mechanism player used conjointly with an active review provides the capability to capture and store multiple configurations of a mechanism and also create slides with annotations. You can use the active review instanced underneath a product or under a validation of a product that contains a mechanism.

Before you begin: As indicated in the Mechanism Manager, you must define a mechanism to animate it.
  1. Activate a review. See Design Synthesis User's Guide: Creating a Review.
  2. Click Mechanism Player .
  3. Assign a value to a command by using one of the following methods:
    • Drag the slider.
    • Type a value directly in the value box.
    • Use the arrows to step through values or select values directly.
  4. Click Close.
    The final mechanism positions (mechanism's transient position and command values) are stored in the Review object.
  5. Repeat Step 2 to animate your mechanism with the same active review.
    The animation is initialized with the overloaded mechanism's positions stored in the review (the mechanism's transient position and command values calculated during the last animation).
  6. When you are done reviewing the mechanism, click Close.