topic Re: 3rd Party Renderers? in Inventor Forum

3rd Party Renderers?

SharkDesign — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 08:05:42 GMT

We're slowly coming to the realisation that Inventor studio is garbage for video renders.

Does anybody know the best 3rd party video renderers that will take Inventor files?

I tried to put an assembly into keyshot and the program just fell over. I'm also assuming they probably need to be simplified quite a lot first and textures must be remapped?

Any experiences in this would be very welcome.

Re: 3rd Party Renderers?

johnsonshiue — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 17:53:56 GMT

Hi James,

I think your rendering requirement is more than what Inventor Studio can offer. I am wondering if you have tried 3D Max or VRED (realistic rendering used by major automotive companies). Also, have you tried the rendering workflows in Fusion 360?

Many thanks!

Re: 3rd Party Renderers?

ChrisMitchell01 — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 01:24:09 GMT

A few Autodesk University sessions which may be of use:

https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/class/Product-Visualization-Workflow-Inventor-3ds-Max-Client-2020

https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/class/Cloud-Based-Design-Review-High-Quality-Real-Time-Rendering-2020

https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/class/Alias-and-VRED-Heavy-Machinery-Design-2020

https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/class/Get-More-Out-Your-Engineering-Data-Visualization-2020

Hope this helps,
Chris

Re: 3rd Party Renderers?

SharkDesign — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 06:54:07 GMT

Thanks for that Chris, very helpful.

Will see if 3D max can handle all the data I'm trying to put into it!

Re: 3rd Party Renderers?

arron.craig — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 21:50:42 GMT

I have created a few Inventor rendered videos with good results by rendering keyframes to images and then stitching them into a video file with ffmpeg.

I can get a 4k render down to a fraction of the size without the horrible video compression you get with the built in codecs and means I don't have to create a multi GB lossless video first.

Re: 3rd Party Renderers?

gcoombridge — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 06:34:03 GMT

Also have a look at Blender, I don't have much experience with it myself but the price is right (free). I have seen some cool work done with it...

Re: 3rd Party Renderers?

dgorsman — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 18:34:16 GMT

Are you rendering direct to video, or to frames and then putting them into the video container file?

Re: 3rd Party Renderers?

SharkDesign — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 15:44:36 GMT

@dgorsman wrote:
Are you rendering direct to video, or to frames and then putting them into the video container file?

Tried both and got the same result.

Re: 3rd Party Renderers?

SharkDesign — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 15:45:34 GMT

I put one of the smaller assemblies into 3DS Max and it just cried and locked up.

I ran them in Inventor Studio on draft mode and got better results then high quality so we're going with that for now.

Thanks everyone for the help.