3d-viewer: how to use animation?

Software
1

Greetings - I am running 5.99 and I noticed there is an “Enable animation” option in the 3d-viewer options. However, I have not figured out how to initiate the animation. The render is static unless I click to rotate.

Is this a feature still in development, or am I missing something?

thanks,
drew

Application: KiCad
Version: (5.99.0-1908-g4357c1d3b), debug build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.4
libcurl/7.68.0 GnuTLS/3.6.13 zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.2.0
libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.2.0) libssh/0.9.3/openssl/zlib
nghttp2/1.40.0 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Linux 5.7.0+ x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
Build date: Jun  5 2020 14:15:49
wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.24
Boost: 1.71.0
OCE: 6.9.1
Curl: 7.68.0
Compiler: GCC 9.3.0 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings:
KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
KICAD_SPICE=ON
KICAD_STDLIB_DEBUG=OFF
KICAD_STDLIB_LIGHT_DEBUG=OFF
KICAD_SANITIZE=OFF
2

It just affects animated rotation when you rotate the board with Zoom to Fit, Top/Bottom view etc. With “Enable animation” unchecked it immediately changes the view, with checked it animates the rotation from the current position to the selected position.

2 Likes
3

Thanks!

That is pretty fun to watch it zoom out.

4

This topic was automatically closed 90 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.