We have to often present our designs at Design Review meetings and currently use the Design Review software for this purpose. We have noticed that the Design Review software rendering is a bit poor compared to the actual Inventor assembly file. Is there any other software we can use to show the design, other than Inventor, as we do not have Inventor in the meeting room?
Thanks in advance
Kev
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Since when does Inventor do 3D PDF's?
If you just want pretty but dumb pictures ShowCase makes some really snazzy images.
For "spinnable" models there's this: http://freewheel.autodesk.com
Can you remote into your workstation from the conference room PC? Granted it would be considerable choppy, but then you could fully use Inventor.
For better graphics inside Design Review;
From the Home tab click on the down arrow next to View
Then click on the drop down on the lower right (Published Lights) and select Headlamp
You can also click on the down arrow next to Shaded and select Shaded with Edges
He asked for other software that can show a model in a similar way Inventor shows assemblies.
3d PDF does it.
3D PDF is awesome, I used it all the time when I ran SolidWorks. However, as far as I know, there is no way to export from Inventor to 3D PDF. If there is a way I'm all ears, because I'd love to be able to use it.
200-300+ USD doesn't count in my book, I don't need it that bad. What I meant is there's no direct translation abilities inherent to IV, like there is in SW.
And IIRC, they are usually 1 year behind with their Inventor add-in...
Why not just use Inventor View, I'm pretty sure you can install it anywhere for free. You have it installed it's part of the installation of Inventor or download it here
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?id=10535296&siteID=123112
For 3D PDFs I highly recommend SimLab Composer/3D PDF. It's a stand-alone application that can import Inventor parts and assemblies along with a slew of other 3D model types. I use it quite often for non-CAD people. The only draw back is that you have to use Adobe Reader as opposed to some other PDF viewer. I also use SimLab as a bridge to get my Inventor models into Blender (a free and open-source 3D app).
hmmm
No one has mentioned Navisworks
We do all of our design reviews in Navisworks.
The boardroom PC only has Freedom on it, so the project/area/dicipline lead creates an nwd prior to the meeting.
Yes, 3D PDF would be awesome. I have been struggling all week trying to get a 3D drawing to a customer. Autodesks solution is to use DWFx. Unfortunately, this is a government agency and they cant install any software on their machines (I run into that ALL the time). That pretty much screws me on getting a 3D file to them. AD says that they can open the dwfx from their browser, but it fails. I cant even get it to work on some of our office machines.
I'm pretty sure Publisher has 3D PDF capabilities so I know Autodesk can do it. Wish they would get off this dwfx ride and get with the real world.