# Simplified "swing" playback mode.

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/simplified-swing-playback-mode/16693
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Created:** [May 22, 2025, 1:16am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/simplified-swing-playback-mode/16693 "2025-05-22T01:16:52Z")
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### Author: ![GregVernon](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/gregvernon/32/1494_2.png) [@GregVernon](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/GregVernon)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2025, 1:16am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/simplified-swing-playback-mode/16693/1 "2025-05-22T01:16:52Z")

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A common animation mode in structural FEA analyses is the “swing” mode. For example, for a simulation with times `[0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1.0]` the swing mode would animate as:

```auto
[0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1.0, 0.75, 0.5, 0.25, 0., 0.25, 0.5, 0.75. 1.0, 0.75...]

```

Repeating until the user pauses. This is in contrast to the “loop” animation that would do:

```auto
[0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1.0, 0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1.0, 0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75,...]

```

For example, here’s a swinging animation I made in ParaView using the Time Manager (thanks to @Francois_Mazen for the assistance!):

It would be nice to have a shortcut icon in the playback menu bar:

![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/3X/7/8/78d8e1c27f7ee7f5d9b4636fde6f926d60304a2b.png)

Maybe an icon like:

 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/3X/8/6/86b29a0f8f0c397594cab81e7014657e4e80dbea.png)

or

![arrows-horizontal](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/3X/5/e/5e8f80b383fd898017502f0d938cd06f969bb3da.svg)