Animating Assemblies in Blender

In this video I will show you how to animate CAD assemblies (in this case from SolidWorks) in the vfx software Blender. Blender is a free software that has very powerful and intuitive rendering and animating capabilities that far exceed those available in SolidWorks and other similar CAD software. In this video I create a geometry in solidworks, import the files from solidworks to blender, then set up and render the animation in blender. As a bonus I also show a trick for converting a sequence of images into an animation (mp4 file) using the software HitFilm express.

This video is geared towards beginners but can easily be adapted for more complex models and assemblies to quickly achieve near photorealistic results. In my experience, engineers are not familiar that this software exist, and they could really use it for nice presentations and for marketing purposes. I hope this tutorial helps!

Solidworks geometry: 34.19
Blender animation: 2:33.54
Hitfilm: 12:04.55

[turbo]

I was just looking to see if i could transfer models created in solidworks to blender. This is so much more. Thank you.

[ahmadzuhri]

Thanks, very useful for my school project

[IamShashi]

I know it’s too late to ask but does topology matter in product animation, I mean the cad models here are not having correct polygons…I mean during render time does they pose an issue ? & thanks for you tutorial brother…

[zakaroonetwork]

How do you get Solidworks? Pirate Bay is no more? What torrent server do you recommend?

[Shashidhar]

Hi, I am Shashidhar, I want to create an animated video in the blender of an assembly. But I am facing a problem, when I put a camera and press zero my object is not visible. Can you please help me out

[adnanshehbaz]

Keep going bro. Its a very nice video. I have learnt from it.

[doncenmotor]

wow, really love your video, It is helpful sir

[anmellie]

Dude i have a question, whenever I try to move a part, independently its only selected one, when I move it, the whole model moves... I could achieve moving just one part but I ain't know how... Do you know how to move just a part?

[vikashsahani]

Is this not going to be done in photoview360 solidworks add on

[urigroisman]

Your videos are very interesting and useful. thanks a lot. what are the specs of the server you run the simulations?, do you use the cloud? Best regards

[zakaroonetwork]

What? How could Bender Not export Video files?

[akshay.kumar.k]

Hello, Autodesk Inventor is saving or exporting the assembly as a single .stl file with joined bodies. It is not giving separate stl file for each body for the assembly. What to do?

[mohammedissam]

WOW, you first build the parts each on their own then assemble them all together as one animated video magnificent work.

But you're doing it a little too fast for me 😂

[adallahditta-vczh]

please make a video for me in 3dsmasx. how to furniture assembly and render .thank you

[luisleon]

Can i maje an animation like this whitout Solidworks? I mean, can i make the modeling on blender only?

[jojogaming]

How to make this animation video which software are you using bro please tell me