UTILITY SETUP ANIMATE Control

                          

This command provides controls for animation sequences requested by the `DRAWING RECOVER ANIMATE' command.

Control Comments

DURATION n Controls the duration of the animation. The duration is specified in seconds and can be from 5 seconds to 36000 seconds (10 hours). The default is 20 seconds.

SPEED n Controls the speed of animation and can be set from 1 to 100, where the maximum speed is 100. The default is set to 75.

COLOUR Selects colour animation.

MONOCHROM Selects monochrome animation. This is the default.

OSCILLATE Specifies that the frames will be displayed as a cyclic sequence. e.g. 1 2 3 4 3 2 1 etc.

LINEAR Specifies that the frames will be displayed as a linear sequence. e.g. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 etc.

Notes:

1.

Hardware requirements
Animation is only available on a selected number of graphics displays. Colour animation will only be available on displays with a fast redraw time e.g. workstations.

2.

Use of Start-up files
The above UTILITY SETUP commands can always be stored in a file and read in at the start of a FEMGV run, see Appendix I of the User Manual Appendices.

Examples:

1.

UTILITY SETUP ANIMATION DURATION 60

This command sets the duration of animation to 60 seconds.

2.

UTILITY SETUP ANIMATION SPEED 100

This command sets the animation speed to the fastest that the hardware can achieve.

3.

UTILITY SETUP ANIMATION OSCILLATE

This command sets the animation sequence as an oscillation. This might be used to animate a mode shape.

4.

UTILITY SETUP ANIMATION COLOUR

This command selects colour animation for displays that are capable of supporting colour animation. In general, colour animation will be slower than monochrome animation where the hardware has limited memory.

5.

UTILITY SETUP ANIMATION MONOCHROM

This command selects monochrome animation. In general, monochrome animation will be faster than full colour animation where the hardware has limited memory.

See also the following commands

'DRAWING RECOVER'
'DRAWING SAVE'