Help Creating 360 Rotations of 3D Designs

DavidB&G

Newbie Joined: Feb 13, 2018 16:19 Messages: 2 Offline

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May 09, 2018 15:19

Hi All,

Very amateur user here. My company creates solution designed for retail security. I make instructional videos that normally just show a human actually applying the solution (molded plastic) to something else. For example, one of the products is a ring that gets applied to the neck of a liquor bottle.

I don't know how to phrase what I'm looking for, so I'm having a hard time finding it. I'm looking for instruction or a tutorial on how to take a 3D design from an engineering software such as SolidWorks, and apply that to a video so that I can show an animation of the molded plastic part turning and possibly stopping at different points.

Is there a specific term that I should be searching? Is anyone able to point me toward a tutorial or helpful forum answer?

Thank you for your time.

-DavidB&G

BarryTheCrab

Senior Contributor Location: USA Joined: Nov 06, 2008 22:18 Messages: 6240 Offline

May 09, 2018 19:59

The 3D animation can be given a green or blue screen backing layer that can be keyed out in PD. Actually any color will work as long as it’s not a color used in your actual animation. It’s also possible an alpha channel background would work but I’m away from my machine and can’t confirm. HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
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ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

May 10, 2018 02:24

Hi DavidB&G -

I’ve never used SolidWorks myself, but (from what I’ve seen & read) you should be able to render an animation from within SolidWorks. Discussion here.

If that’s a possibility, you can use the animation or video within PDR to make your demo video.

PDR, alone, would not be able to generate the kind of 3D rotation you’re after. It can only do 2D rotation.

Cheers - Tony

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