topic Re: Camera position for rendering in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Camera position for rendering

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:01:36 GMT

When I have a final model, is there a way I can position the rendering "camera" at a certain point in space?

When I share the model online as link, the model viewer has a "walk through" mode, allowing me f.e. to view from the center of the model to the outside. I want to do a similar view but as full render. Is this possible (how) ?

Re: Camera position for rendering

Phil.E — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 19:39:10 GMT

@Anonymous

For your first question: Use Named Views.

For your second question, Fusion 360 does not have "baked" rendered views. If you move the camera, it tries to do ray tracing all over again. So a dynamically view-able model that is completely rendered is not currently possible.

Please let me know if you have any more questions.

Thanks,

Re: Camera position for rendering

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 21:21:46 GMT

Okay, thanks. I knew of the custom Views, but I think what I was aiming at is, that I find it pretty hard to "navigate" the camera just using pan, zoom and rotate when trying to find a camera location from "inside" a model. Is there a "3rd Person view" / "walking" navigation possible in Fusion 360 (as it is on the web-player).

Ideally, of course, one would be able to "place" camera objects and then "select" them in render - the way some other 3D rendering programs (f.e. Blender) do. But I understand that rendering is not the main priority of Fusion.

Re: Camera position for rendering

Phil.E — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 21:40:12 GMT

Oh, okay. I get it.

Yes it would be nice to place a camera and then "zoom to camera". The best I can manage is with my 3Dconnexion mouse. It's a lot easier to "get inside" something and peer out using that device.

Re: Camera position for rendering

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 01:04:11 GMT

just what i needed, makes no sens.. "Drag and drop views here to enable rendering on save for future versions" in render mode.

Re: Camera position for rendering

Phil.E — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 14:23:36 GMT

@Anonymous

Drag and drop views, refers to rendering gallery views, not named views.

I think the label could be better, so I'm filing an improvement request to change the wording to be more clear. Thanks for reminding me about that! I've answered this question several times now. 🙂

The power of the rendering gallery is in that little box. If you set up a named view, then save the file, the rendering gallery will capture it as a sort of historical object. But if you drag that view to the spot you mention, every time your model is saved, a new rendering is generated in the cloud. So you can keep a set of named, rendered, views that are always up to date! No need to constantly re-render your model if you like the named views you have made.

(this should say "...when you SAVE model changes.")

Thanks,