How to animate something

[ftcteamcc]

Hello Autodesk Forum,

We are the Charging Champions, FTC Team #8660. We are using Autodesk Inventor Professional 2015 STUDENT VERSON.

We figured out how to animate something in Autodesk (using presentation). However, when we animated it, it was very clunky and did not look very professional. 

So, the question that we are actually asking is: How do you animate something on Inventor and make in look professional?

We need a solution ASAP. We have a robotics competition very soon, and we need this ready very soon.

Thank you,

The Charging Champions

FTC Team #8660

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[JDMather]

Go to the Environments tab and select Inventor Studio.

Animations should be done in Studio.  I recommend that you go through the Inventor Tutorials.

[dgorsman]

Creating something that looks professional requires experience.  There isn't a check list of items "Do this"  "Do that" "Do something else" "And you're done!", due to the wide variety of objects, lighting, sizes, rendering technology, and other factors.  The only way to get there is to try a few things, look for what can be better, find out what settings affect that and how they can be changed, apply changes, re-evaluate.

[mflayler2]

Here is an Autodesk University Paper I did on Inventor Studio a couple of years ago.  Might help you if you are going to use Inventor Studio.  The material is pretty solid even though the commands moved around a bit.

If you are going to use IPNs, you can massage them to get them to look pretty decent, but photorealistic they are not.