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Rendering Animation with Inventor 2016 Best Settings

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 16:58:33 GMT

I am having problems rendering animations in Inventor Studio 2016. It is taking forever... I have done animations successfully in Inventor 2013, but a lot has changed in 2016. Has anyone experimented with the best overall settings to produce a fairly high quality animation. I need this to look pretty nice because we will be using it as a marketing youtube video. I try to keep my overall animation size to less than 30 seconds per clip. Thanks all.

These settings I would like to keep:

Resolution 1280 x 720

Frame Rate: 24

File Type: AVI

These are the settings I am not sure about:

Render Duration:

Lighting and Material Accuracy:

Image Filtering (Antialiasing):

Video Compression:

Re: Rendering Animation with Inventor 2016 Best Settings

VinodBalasubramanian — Mon, 02 May 2016 01:14:37 GMT

Hi,

We have a known issue on rendering being stuck. Yours might be similar to the one below. If you can provide us your dataset, I can validate and confirm. Our developers are working to address this issue.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Animation-rendering-sticks-at-certain-frame.html

Looking forward to your reply.

Re: Rendering Animation with Inventor 2016 Best Settings

Anonymous — Mon, 02 May 2016 16:22:32 GMT

Actually I am not having that issue, it rendered just fine but it took 48 hours to do the full render. I know there is an issue with increasing the undo file size. I went ahead and increased that file size before doing the render. When the render finished I was not very happy with it, the lighting was very bright (I am using the default assembly lighting style) and there was a lot of artifacting with fading components.

Here are the full settings I used.

Resolution 1280 x 720

Frame Rate: 24

File Type: AVI (compression: Intel IYUV codec)

Render Duration: 30 (by iteration)

Lighting and Material Accuracy: High

Image Filtering (Antialiasing): Gaussian (width 3.0)

Re: Rendering Animation with Inventor 2016 Best Settings

Anonymous — Mon, 02 May 2016 16:37:32 GMT

We just purchased Keyshot to render our Inventor models.

So far I've been very happy with its ease of use and the quality of the output.

I've used it for still renderings only thus far, but it does animations as well.

Might be something to look into.

Cheers,

Ben

Re: Rendering Animation with Inventor 2016 Best Settings

dgorsman — Mon, 02 May 2016 17:24:36 GMT

Thats about 4 minutes per frame. For high quality materials and lighting at 720p resolution its not out of the realm of reality, especially straight-to-video. Could you render to frames for a shorter segment, and post a couple of those frames so we can see the problems in context?

Re: Rendering Animation with Inventor 2016 Best Settings

Anonymous — Wed, 04 May 2016 18:39:30 GMT

Ok the uploaded image below shows what I am talking about. When I did similar animations in 2013 it did not have these same issues. I wonder if I need to render for a longer amount of iterations or changing it to a certain amout of time to render. I really wish someone could comment on the settings they used to have some level of success for their animations. Thanks.

Re: Rendering Animation with Inventor 2016 Best Settings

VinodBalasubramanian — Thu, 05 May 2016 02:52:57 GMT

Hi Jeremy,

Can you able to send the model to us. I can share a secure link with you. Also did you use 2016 with R2 or R3 release. Looking forward to your inputs.

Re: Rendering Animation with Inventor 2016 Best Settings

Anonymous — Thu, 05 May 2016 16:28:38 GMT

Ok I am completely up to date on all of my updates for Inventor, so it was done on the latest and greatest version of Inventor.

I can send you the model just let me know the next steps, so I can get you a pack and go.

Thanks.

Re: Rendering Animation with Inventor 2016 Best Settings

VinodBalasubramanian — Fri, 06 May 2016 08:06:32 GMT

Thank you. Can you upload your model file to this link,

https://autodesk.box.com/s/5ay4hsl6nxxjzevlbv2ue79a6dug8szk

Let me know if you have any difficulties accessing it.

Re: Rendering Animation with Inventor 2016 Best Settings

Anonymous — Fri, 06 May 2016 17:56:47 GMT

Ok do I need to create a new account? I am not sure how to upload?

Re: Rendering Animation with Inventor 2016 Best Settings

VinodBalasubramanian — Mon, 09 May 2016 02:09:26 GMT

Hi,

Can you click the link in internet explorer and then drag and drop the files to that window. You don't need a login to place the files. If you have issues, let me know. I will send you a secure invite to your email.

Re: Rendering Animation with Inventor 2016 Best Settings

Anonymous — Mon, 09 May 2016 15:00:50 GMT

When I try to drag and drop the files it just wants to open them, so yah it still does not work.

Re: Rendering Animation with Inventor 2016 Best Settings

Anonymous — Tue, 10 May 2016 15:22:03 GMT

Ok files have been uploaded.