Octopus Motion
Clear assembly instructions, without leaving CAD.
Octopus Motion turns your assemblies into animations and assembly instructions, for the shop floor, after-sales service or your customers. They stay linked to the model: if the design changes, the instructions follow.
Octopus Motion timeline: steps and actions of the robot assembly
01/ ANIMATION
A timeline designed for assembly.
Each component carries its actions: move, rotate, show, back into place. Actions only store an offset from the assembled position, so the animation follows the assembly as it evolves.
02/ INSTRUCTIONS
One page per step, generated for you.
Exploded view of the step, path arrows, balloons numbered in assembly order and a parts-needed table: the layout is ready, you only need to fine-tune it.
Instruction page generated for the “Forearm and wrist” step
In practice
Five steps, from assembly to PDF.
- Create the Motion document. From an open assembly, “Animation / instructions” creates a .wwmot document linked to the assembly.
- Animate the assembly. Select components and move or rotate them with the triad: each gesture becomes an action on the timeline. “Copy-reverse” turns an explosion into an assembly sequence.
- Split into steps. Place named steps on the timeline, capture cameras and create views.
- Generate the instructions. A cover page with the full bill of materials, then one page per step: exploded view, motion arrows, balloons and parts needed. Every page stays editable: text, images, frames, tables.
- Export. Instructions to PDF, pages to PNG, animation to MP4 or WebM video up to 4K.