Many 3D Canvas Operations can have their effect animated. Any operation that supports
Update on the Object Layers
Panel or the Operation Adjust Tool can be animated.
What follows is an explanation of how to animate a Scale Operation.
The Scale Operation is located on the Object Operations Panel.
Set the parameters for the Scale Operation by right clicking on . Enter a scale
amount of 1 for X, Y and Z. This will result in no scaling at time 0 in the animation.
Apply a Scale Operation to the sphere by clicking .
Move to time 10 with the animation slider.
Select the sphere if it is not already selected. Click
Update on the Object Layers Panel and enter a scale amount of 2
for X, Y and Z. This will result in the sphere being scaled by a factor of two in each
direction.
We now have an sphere that doubles in size during the animation.