Problems with "Inventor Studio" option - "Surface Styles" not showing

[murilofabrino]

Hi there,

I'm new with the Inventor, and as I'm learnig with the video classes I found that my "Inventor Studio" option doesn't have the "Surface Style" bar.

So as when i do the "Render", the "Render Type" doens't show the realistic type, only the "shaded" and "ilustration".

Can someone help??

I'm using the Inventor Professional 2013.

Tks

[JDMather]

Post still screen shot from the video of what you are expecting to see.

[murilofabrino]

Sorry, I didn't get what you said.

[JDMather]

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@murilofabrino wrote:
"Surface Style" bar.

So as when i do the "Render", the "Render Type" doens't show the realistic type, only the "shaded" and "ilustration".

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I don't recall ever seeing a "Surface Style" bar in Inventor.  Could this be an English translation problem.  (there is a Visual Style with Realistic)

I have never seen the option Realistic in Inventor Studio, only the same as your screen capture. 

  I am curious about what you saw in that video you mention.  Where they in the modeling enviroment or in the Inventor Studio Environment?

[blair]

You only get the "Style" types as JD posted in the main working/model environment of Inventor. The picture that you posted is from the actual Studio Rendering environment. From this you only get the Shaded and Illustration option. You can't get a render of a Wire-Frame or Hidden Line view as in the modeling/working environment. The only way you can get a transparent render would be to change the material's appearances to transparent materials.

[cbaty017]

We are experiencing the same thing here. While watching a training video from 3DMadeEasy you can clearly see on the attachment there is a fifth option "Surface Styles" under the Scene tab in Inventor Studio but it doesn't appear on our installation. Anybody who knows how to make this option available, help would be much appreciated. Thanks

[murilofabrino]

There were no problems with the translation, I use the program with the english version.

Here´s a link from a video with the "Surface style" and the "realistic" type to render.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SY0ah_eXz8

Check it out.

I thought it was a instalation problem that i did...

[JDMather]

Ah, that is what I neede - a screen capture to show exactly then information needed.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Back in a bit with solution.

[JDMather]

The video appears to have been made in an earlier version of Inventor.

The Materials/Colors functionality changed at some version.

I don't recall what release or how this effects what you need to do.

Perhaps someone from Autodesk will comment.

It looks like that was posted Aug 2009 which would make it Inventor 2010 release.

[blair]

Release IV2013 was the introduction of the new Materials and Styles. Prior to this you could by accident change the physical properties of a item by thinking that you had only changed the appearance.

[murilofabrino]

Ok, but what about the "Realistic" option on the render?

How can I render the image in the realistic form???

[blair · Accepted solution]

You have two different environments the modeling environment, where you assembly the model and the Studio environment, where you render to get near photorealistic outputs that can be saved. In the Modeling environment, you can select "Realistic" which will then allow you to activate the "Ray-Tracing" option. This will allow for higher quality (real-time) rendering within the Modeling environment. In the Studio environment there is no real-time rendering or "Realistic" setting. When you have set up your render in Studio and then select the "Render" function, you can then set the size in the image and the quality under the "Out-Put" tab.