# Add animation feature

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/add-animation-feature/28301>\
**Category:** Feature requests\
**Created:** [October 7, 2023, 4:54pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/add-animation-feature/28301 "2023-10-07T16:54:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![TimTait](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/timtait/32/23101_2.png) [@TimTait](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/TimTait)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2023, 4:54pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/add-animation-feature/28301/1 "2023-10-07T16:54:13Z")

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It would be great to be able to do a simple **fly-through animation**.

I would like to be create a simple fly-through to show my clients a short video animation of the sign I’ve designed. It would be short, between 5 and 30 seconds. Export the animation as a mp4 or mov format.

I want to pick camera views and control path of the fly-through, and adjust the duration.

This would be helpful for both the design process and especially helpful for presentation purposes.

Thank you, I LOVE Shapr3D! I just started using it, and in just a few days I was able to use it for a real project and a presentation (signs and wayfinding project).

Tim Tait LLC

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**Author:** ![Aquariumsetc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Aquariumsetc](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Aquariumsetc)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2023, 11:36pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/add-animation-feature/28301/2 "2023-10-07T23:36:28Z")

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Go and have a look at Mental Canvas app, their simple intuitive animation is rudimentary but very effective, just pose the scene you want, take a snapshot, move to another scene then snapshot then play, you can adjust speed as well. Its exactly how I imagine Shapr3d could have animation. I may be wrong but it seems the easiest implementation of animation you can get.

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**Author:** ![Aquariumsetc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Aquariumsetc](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Aquariumsetc)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2023, 11:46pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/add-animation-feature/28301/3 "2023-10-07T23:46:18Z")

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this animation took about 10-20 seconds to “program” with snapshots…I have to do these rudimentary drawings in mental canvas to get the animation of my idea to portray the projects, then show them the actual drawings in shapr3d……this is all in their free version

So wish this was in shapr3d #gamechanger

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**Author:** ![leem2209](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/leem2209/32/29523_2.png) [@leem2209](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/leem2209)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 1:08pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/add-animation-feature/28301/4 "2024-11-13T13:08:42Z")

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Hi All,

Sharing this post here (as well as in another forum post too)

I found a 3D animation feature in PowerPoint. Just used it to test this 3D animation of a part downloaded, added colour in shapr3d, exported as GLB (to retain colours) and added to PowerPoint

[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/3X/e/7/e73e0ca58e1ec2f844513e1c2c072fc158db8f43.jpeg "Test 3d visualization of part exported from shapr3d - animation created in powerpoint") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wuop_jo-h8)

Used 2 slides, each has a different default view, has an animation of “rotate” and morph between slides.

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**Author:** ![Stephen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/stephen/32/16350_2.png) [@Stephen](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Stephen)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 8:33pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/add-animation-feature/28301/5 "2024-11-13T20:33:12Z")

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I never knew PowerPoint could do that. I’ll have to play with it at work tomorrow.

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**Author:** ![tulsultant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@tulsultant](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/tulsultant)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2024, 11:37pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/add-animation-feature/28301/6 "2024-11-14T23:37:20Z")

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This looks like an antenna farm. Nice.