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To create a video, load the model you want to navigate into.

The trajectory can be imported from external file or created following 2 ways: 1) by manual selection of the camera 2) by points selection

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Trajectory creation by manual selection of the camera: Windows Flythrough Editor (or Ctrl+F)

Navigate your model, stop, set a point of view and press: to insert a new key point sequentially to the previous one. to set a new key point just before the last one you have selected. Press to remove a single key point and to reset the entire list.

Once you have define a number of key points, set the navigation speed and check the duration.

You can have a pre-view of the video pressing

. To stop it press

If you add or remove new keys, press to update the trajectory for a new preview. Only the key with flag are used for the video.

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If the video preview is the right one press to save the trajectory.

A 3D polyline will be inserted as Flythrough item (you can save several trajectories in the project)

Is now possible to create the final video just pressing

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Press and set:

- The movie file name (*.avi format)

- The resolution in pixels - The frame per seconds (FPS)

- Set the video compression software according to the codec files installed on your PC

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Trajectory creation by points selection: Open the Point List windows (Ctrl+P)

Alt and double click to insert points in the list. All the point coordinates are editable (i.e. to change the camera high value). Press to create a trajectory fitting the selected points and set the Up vector direction of your camera (i.e. if you want to fly parallel to the horizontal pavement, select Z axis)

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The trajectory is saved in the Flythrough folder

Once the trajectory is in the project right button of the mouse on the file-name. Then chose between: Play Edit Make movie

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Importing the trajectory from external file as .dxf or points list (*.txt). The points are automatically interpolated in order to create a smoothed and continuous flythrough

Once

the

trajectory

has

been

imported in the project, press the right button of the mouse and select filename. Then chose between: Play Edit Make movie And set the Movie Parameters