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Rendering orbit / 360 view

Tobi.Fusion — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 14:23:53 GMT

Hey there,

is there a way to render an orbit in Fusion 360? Like this one?

Re: Rendering orbit / 360 view

SaeedHamza — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 16:03:54 GMT

Hi,

Not really, this can only be done using the Animation work space, but not rendered

Saeed

Re: Rendering orbit / 360 view

ben.lorimore — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 16:08:15 GMT

Hi @Tobi.Fusion,

The orbit you attached is a .gif so yes, with a few work arounds.

I would make a series of renders that you later stitch into a .gif. To make this series I'd choose a perspective view you want the .gif to be from and then save that perspective as a new named view (browser>right click named views> new named view). This is so you can get back to that exact view for each render. Then, since you cannot precisely rotate the viewing angle in Fusion, rotate all your components around their center axis between each render (instead of rotating the view.) The more renders/rotations, the less choppy the .gif while be (with more renders your rotations will obviously become incrementally less because you will only need 360 degrees of rotations, so I'd decide how many frames you want in your .gif before you start.) To stitch up the pictures into a .gif I'd recommend using photoshop, but there are also free .gif creators online as well.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

Ben

Re: Rendering orbit / 360 view

TrippyLighting — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 21:31:18 GMT

Yes, that can be done. Unfortuanately the Fusion 360 team has limited the number of frames to 36 per revolution in an attempt to truly ensure We get amateurish looking results 😉

In order to limit functionality even more it was decided to allow this only when cloud rendering is enabled. So in essence it is aimed at people that one would assume are willing to spend cloud credits in exchange for money, but then are only provided with a truly useless feature.

RANT over 😉

Re: Rendering orbit / 360 view

Tobi.Fusion — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 14:12:03 GMT

Hello @ben.lorimore,

this is waaay to much overhead, but yeah at least there is some way to do it.

You really should implement a easier way to make an orbit of the object, i would use this Feature in each Project.

regards

Tobi

Re: Rendering orbit / 360 view

schneik-adsk — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 04:31:47 GMT

Open the model in Fusion 360, then enter the render workspace.

Select any image in the gallery so it opens in the popup window, then select re-render as turntable.

You can see the results for an example here: https://gallery.autodesk.com/fusion360/projects/-21-engine

Re: Rendering orbit / 360 view

Tobi.Fusion — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 11:43:29 GMT

Hello @schneik-adsk,

thanks for your reply, but first sadly just Cloud Render, so no high quality (without paying) =(

And second why limit the amount of frames, why don't let the user decide? I want a nice smooth rotation, but 36 frames for one rotation is not smooth.

regards