I am trying to recreate a hollow container, animated being filled with water.
Without actual liquid simulation in Visualize, I was thinking of having a water appearance and a solid body matching the internal shape.
This would work great if cutting planes could be set to only cut selected bodies, and thus by moving and revealing/ filling my "water". However this cannot be done.
Do you have any other ideas of how I could show water filling up?
Are animated appearances possible? Or will I need a different piece of software?
I have also tried, animating the texture mapping of a water appearance and using a cavity to create a changing body inside Solidworks, but this cannot be taken into Visualise
I am trying to recreate a hollow container, animated being filled with water.
Without actual liquid simulation in Visualize, I was thinking of having a water appearance and a solid body matching the internal shape.
This would work great if cutting planes could be set to only cut selected bodies, and thus by moving and revealing/ filling my "water". However this cannot be done.
Do you have any other ideas of how I could show water filling up?
Are animated appearances possible? Or will I need a different piece of software?
I have also tried, animating the texture mapping of a water appearance and using a cavity to create a changing body inside Solidworks, but this cannot be taken into Visualise
Many thanks,
Are you looking for realism or just the general flow? If it's more of a "Simulation" I can see doing this with motion and showing the water with a bunch of tiny spheres. I'm not sure if there are material properties you could set that would make the spheres react more like water than solid material though.
Just a thought.
Re: Simulation Water Filling
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2021 12:27 am
by zxys001
Do a search on the internet.. I know I've seen animations of this before.
Re: Simulation Water Filling
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2021 4:20 am
by Sbenning02
MJuric wrote: ↑Wed Sep 01, 2021 11:48 am
Are you looking for realism or just the general flow? If it's more of a "Simulation" I can see doing this with motion and showing the water with a bunch of tiny spheres. I'm not sure if there are material properties you could set that would make the spheres react more like water than solid material though.
Just a thought.
Hi, I just need a rising level/ plane inside the part. I would do this with a solid body, if the internals weren't so complex.
Currently trying lots of tiny spheres, but fear that it may be too intense for my computer to handle, and I have a decent graphics card.
Thanks for the input!
Re: Simulation Water Filling
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2021 4:22 am
by Sbenning02
zxys001 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 02, 2021 12:27 am
Do a search on the internet.. I know I've seen animations of this before.
Been struggling with this problem for the best part of a week, with hardly anything useful found. Seems to be little out there in the way of a Visualise community
If you could find the animations and link, that would be very helpful!
Thanks,
Re: Simulation Water Filling
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2021 10:28 pm
by Arthur NY
Just not the right software for this. There might be some possibility down the road for Visualize to start adding dynamics but for now you'd do better using a software like Blender (which is free) that already has this kind of capability right out the box....
