I must be doing something wrong but what?
For the past couple of days I have been trying to animate the operation of a machine for a sales agent meeting with no success. There are 9 motions to animate with a real time operation of 20 seconds. I can set up the path of any one of them and it operates flawlessly. However I can not get them to operate simultaneously. The animation always stops when 4 movements are required at the same time. After that point the movements become intermittent and jump several steps at a time. Some movements are dependent on others. For instance a Z axis on the end of a Y axis mounted on an x axis slide. Others are pendulum style. I have simplified the assemblies as much as possible, and even tried saving assemblies as parts to cut down on the calculation time required. I have increased the time span to allow more time to calculate and still no go. The computer is a pentium 4 3.2ghz with 2 gig ram. The model uses about 500 meg when loaded. Is there a limit on animation movements? Any tips. I need all the help I can get. SW 2004 sp 4.1
Thanks Dave Rhodes Mechanical designer G.N. Plastics Ltd.