Hello, all.
I'm a graphic artist and filmmaker, not an industrial designer. I do work for a manufacturer of lighting fixtures, and they want me to create animations that show the guys on the shop floor how to put their fixtures together.
I've been exploring Inventor Studio, and it seems extremely lame to me, at least for this kind of project. Before I tell my client this is the wrong software for the project, I'm hoping somebody might be able to tell me I'm wrong about the following things. Thanks in advance.
1. When animating constraints, there's no way to make parts move around each other instead of through each other.
2. When editing animation in the Animation Timeline, all you're affecting is the end position (the right-hand keyframe). The left-hand keyframe in any action is brain-dead; it contains no information except "This is an animation start time," and the only way to control the start position is to insert another animation before the one you're working with.
3. Animation edits often do not appear visually until the current timeline position is nudged and then returned to the current position.
4. There's no WYSIWYG option when animating a camera zoom.
5. Since "Animate Constraints" allows parts to move through each other, "Animate Components" won't work unless all constraints except those relevant to the current step of assembly are suppressed, and there's no way to animate constraint suppression, there's really no good way to show the several dozen stages of assembly I need in this project.
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