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Inventor 2021

kmellor — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 18:26:10 GMT

Hey Guys,

So I have a question, based on the massive advancement of Rendering by GPU due to the Optix library and RTX platform by Nvidia and also the collaboration between the teams there and at Autodesk I have seen some great improvement on Arnold which is incorporated into 3ds Max for example. I know this system is also in vRed too which I would expect for car rendering.

More so as this is building products the need is greater for the utilisation of the GPU, as per the Arnold Autodesk seminar on Ray tracing (can be seen on youtube and is a good watch) confirmed that the same quality was achieved by the GPU compared to the CPU at a much quicker pace.

When will we be seeing these options in Inventor Studio?

Re: Inventor 2021

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 09:04:45 GMT

Inventor is not currently using Arnold for rendering, so maybe a better place to ask would be the Inventor user forums at https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor/ct-p/70.

Re: Inventor 2021

kmellor — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 09:37:04 GMT

Hi Ragnar,

I am aware that Inventor does not use Arnold and when posted on Inventor forum was directed to this forum.

However my question is will Arnold be incorporated into Inventor for future? It currently uses CPU Ray Tracing but I can see it would benefit from GPU use and Arnold would be a good fit considering the other Autodesk inclusions like 3ds Max.

Re: Inventor 2021

Stephen.Blair — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 11:22:21 GMT

Maybe one day, but there's no plans for that right now. I wouldn't expect it to happen anytime soon.

Re: Inventor 2021

kmellor — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 13:31:06 GMT

Thanks Stephen, would be great if it was as it makes sense for advanced product development software to have the ability of good quality render animation, I appreciate there is great platforms like 3ds Max but the time to set up constraints in Inventor and then having to start that type of work again in 3ds Max seems counter-intuitive don't you think?