Rendering Inventor Models with 3ds Max Product Demonstration Recording

[@keithyakouboff8755]

Late to this party, but I do have a question, just in case this is still being watched. (I've been to the Autodesk forums, but they were unable to give me an answer since I did not have all of the info they wanted. I hope it can be answered here with what I can provide.) My supervisor wants to be able to control the movement of sections of a model independently of other parts. He probably wants a full-blown animation as well, but also wants to be able to interactively control the movement of a segment of the model. In Maya, there are 'set-driven keys' that can give one control over the movement of scene elements. I gave him this in a Maya version of a file I created, but he wants to be able to do something like that in Inventor. I think he'd be open to doing that in a different environment (a video game, e.g.) if his prospective clients could also open the file on their end (and he doesn't expect most of his industrial clients to be using Maya). However it's done, though, I expect there to be a high learning curve. Does anyone have a suggestion on how I could go about this? How might one of you guys who are more experienced in Inventor, and are likely designers or engineers as well (I am neither), take on such a challenge? Thanks.

[@digitaldiorama]

Doesn't Inventor still have Inventor Studio? Much easier and you can even do turntable animations. Don't see the point in using 2 applications when you can do everything in one.

[@ManandMachineCAD]

Yes Inventor does still have a Studio Environment, which can be used for creating quick renders. However, the rendering engine used inside of 3DS Max is a lot more powerful than the one found within Inventor. 3DS Max has the ability to not only manage and create textures and lighting assets, but also handles them a lot better than would be possible in Inventor. This allows us to have more realistic renders, without the need to remodel them in a new product.

[@keithyakouboff8755]

@@ManandMachineCAD Agreed. The animation controls and features are also superior. It's a VFX application... Inventor is not.