The Autodesk® Inventor® 2017: Presenting Designs with Image and Animation Tools student guide teaches you how to present your Autodesk® Inventor® designs using tools that are available with the software.
You begin in the modeling environment, learning how to customize visual styles, include reflections and shadows in a display, set up and control lighting, and create and assign unique material appearances with the aim of enhancing how the model is presented. The student guide also discusses the Presentation and Inventor Studio environments, which can be used to create compelling still images or animations of a design.
The Presentation environment enables you to create snapshot views (still images) and animations to help document an assembly. A presentation file can be used to indicate how parts relate to each other and create an exploded view for a drawing. Animating the exploded view enables you to further show how components fit together in an assembly. Inventor Studio is an alternate tool that can also be used to create realistic renderings or animations of models that can be used in model presentations.
The topics covered in this student guide are also covered in the following ASCENT student guides, which include a broader range of advanced topics:
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