ProjectWise Navigator V8i - Animating Element Transparency within a Scheduled Simulation

I have created a 4D schedule simulation using ProjectWise Navigator V8i and would like all chosen elements to fade into view as the simulation progresses through the schedule. I have created particular named groups of elements and linked them to start date/time and finish date/time tasks. The start transparency of the named group is set to 100% transparency and the finish transparency to be 0% for each related task. I assumed that as time progressed through the related tasks in the schedule the elements would fade into view, however after the task linked to the named group completes the elements pop into view, they do not fade in at all.

Could anyone shed some light on this one for me please? The only other way i can think of doing this would be to stager the tasks to have multiple start and finsh transparency date/times, however that would be lenghty for the size of model i have!

Thank you for taking the time to read through my post.

Regards,

Carl

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Offline Paul Johnson Tue, Nov 24 2009 5:54 PM
Carl,

The schedule simulation does not animate the morphing between the start and end points. I have filed a Change Request (286554) for our Product Management team to consider for future enhancements.

Regards,

~Paul
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Carlos2804 Mon, Dec 7 2009 10:03 AM in reply to Paul Johnson

Paul,

Thanks for your reply much appreciated. Do you know of a way to do it through the animation? At present i can animate transparency to morph elements into view however they suddenly morph out of view at the end of the task? Very strange logic.

Kind regards,

Carl
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Carlos2804 Mon, Dec 7 2009 1:13 PM in reply to Bear

Thank you both for your input. Bear going back to my original post, is it now possible in the latest version of Projectwise Navigator V8i to show elements fading in through Schedule Simulation Tasks rather than animation?

Kind regards,

Carl
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Offline Bear Mon, Dec 7 2009 1:19 PM in reply to Carlos2804
Sorry Carl, I haven't tried this in PWN as yet.
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Carlos2804 Mon, Dec 7 2009 9:16 PM in reply to Bear

Bear do you know where i can find any information on animating transparency through the means you described?
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Offline Bear Mon, Dec 7 2009 11:43 PM in reply to Carlos2804
Have a look at the help file, but if you find it too hard let me know and I'll put together a Blog based on the small example model I did.
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Offline Bear Mon, Dec 7 2009 11:55 PM in reply to Bear
The dgn and pdf in this may help.

http://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/microstation_v8i/microstation_v8i_printing/f/19568/t/13824.aspx
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Offline Bear Mon, Dec 7 2009 11:55 PM in reply to Bear
The dgn and pdf in this may help.

http://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/microstation_v8i/microstation_v8i_printing/f/19568/t/13824.aspx
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Carlos2804 Thu, Dec 10 2009 1:25 PM in reply to Bear

Hi Bear,

I've read the help file thoroughly however i don't completely follow the logic with animating transparency for a schedule simulation. If you do have time Bear then i would be very interested in reading your related blog!

Thank you in advance for your help.

Best regards,

Carl
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Offline Bear Thu, Dec 10 2009 1:58 PM in reply to Carlos2804
It's one option, but I have also animated levels etc to get some sort of simulation. It's not viable on bigger selection sets, but smaller jobs it's ideal. I'll put something together ASAP and post it up.
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Offline Bear Mon, Dec 14 2009 2:17 AM in reply to Bear
Hi Carl,

Before I get too far with this Blog, can you check the dgn attached from the thread I linked earlier? It shows how to celection sets can be turned into actors to animate a time line of sorts. Let me know what you think?
MK lid lifter model- ANMTN rev 2.dgn
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