Autodesk Inventor

[#1]

When modeling in the Inventor environment I prefer to use a custom gradient background. When I create image captures for presentations I prefer the images to maintain a white background. Is there a feature which easily allows me to do so?

[#2]

Tools>Application Options>Colors and set to Presentation (one color) background.

Or use Presentation background in Studio.

[#3]

This is doable yes, but unfortunately this method doesn't lend itself to an iterative design process. This means each time I want to export an image capture for presentation I would have to change my Application options Color Scheme, and Background type... I will also have to reverse these selections when returing back into work mode. I'm confused as to why Inventor wouldn't include this as a standard bare-minimum feature... From an Industrial Design perspective this feature is absolutely necessary. Perhaps Inventor's primary focus isn't intended to be a design tool as much as it's an engineering tool?

[#4]

Hi desilva2010,

I typically just work with a white background all of the time, but I set it up as decribed here:

http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com/2012/09/inventor-background-color-as-white.html

But if that's not for you, then you can use this addin to take screen captures with a white background while working with any other color background:

http://apps.exchange.autodesk.com/INVNTOR/Detail/Index?id=autodesk.appstore.exchange.autodesk.com%3A...

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

[#5]

Thanks Curtis, I've installed the plugin but it's nowhere to be found in Tools>Options>Plug-ins manager. Should I contact the authors?