Strange Inventor parts texture in drawing mode? (screenshots provided)

[rg97]

Hi, this is my first post I'm a student that has been working in inventor for 2 years now, and before that I learned two years worth of AutoCAD. I am using the student version of inventor 2014. So i drew up a bushing in polished bronze, and when I put it into a 2D drawing, there is a very strange reflection that I see in the bronze. If it matters, I am using the Sky theme with gradient background. As you can see in the attached screenshots, its a person on a motorcycle in a parking lot (strange, right?) . This is really a strange thing to have, and I think that its a glitch of some sort, if the forum could identify the problem (and maybe a patch for it) I would appreciate it.

[rg97]

Im trying to put pictures up right now, please bear with me...

[rg97]

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[rg97]

Sorry about this, this is my first time The best I can do is provide some links to the pics http://i1362.photobucket.com/albums/r696/rg97/Glitch1_zps24410076.jpg http://i1362.photobucket.com/albums/r696/rg97/Glitch2_zps921c4cab.jpg http://i1362.photobucket.com/albums/r696/rg97/Glitch3_zps3656f764.jpg

[blair]

Parking lot at Autodesk offices. You need some background picture for reflections in shinny material to look correct.

Controlled in the Application Options>Colors>Reflection Environment:

[cwhetten]

Welcome to the forum!

Here is a picture of what blair was talking about:

I prefer the Chrome.dds reflection environment.  It is just some generic fuzzy bright spots that look nice in reflections.  All of the other ones are pictures of actual objects / places, and they can create some strange and distracting patterns in reflections.

Cameron Whetten
Inventor 2014

[rg97]

Thanks for the replies, I went into the options (I must have skipped over the reflection image accidentally) and sure enough it was running the Autodesk parking lot. I'm running the sky theme so I just switched it to the Sky bitmap image reflection.

[Paul-Mason]

On the theme of reflections is there a way to create a custom/personnel DDS file

[cwhetten]

I doubt there is a way to do this natively in Inventor.  You would have to have another application that is capable of creating .DDS files.  A quick google search tells me that there are dedicated programs like DirectX Texture Editor (dxtex.exe) from Microsoft, or there are plugins for image editing software like Photoshop or GIMP.

I have never done it, so I can't say more than this.  But it might be fun to give it a try.

Cameron Whetten
Inventor 2014