Add Life to Design with Animation

Many CAD programs include at least basic animation capability, but this article gives you a springboard for adding more animation power to enliven your designs. Among the useful tools: third-party applications like Dassault Systemes' Bunkspeed and Luxion's KeyShot that provide fast, easy, photorealistic renderings of geometry, according to this reviewer. Both employ wizards to generate simple animations and also let you animate an entire model, selected parts of a model, or materials and lights within a design. Read on for advice on importing models into more sophisticated animation programs, such as Deltagen or Maya.

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