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Procedural wood in Inventor?

travis.designer.vn — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 12:39:55 GMT

Many company use Inventor for woodworking. There're procedural wood material in Fusion 360. They will automatic generate wood grain and ring in solid.

Are there plan to bring this feature into Inventor?

or alternative solution?

Thank

Travis

Re: Procedural wood in Inventor?

SharkDesign — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 12:45:52 GMT

Do you mean for the purpose of looking realistic, or for some other use?

Re: Procedural wood in Inventor?

travis.designer.vn — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 13:15:58 GMT

Hi @SharkDesign

I use for realistic wood presentation.

Currently, I feel wood appearance in Inventor look like veneer.

Travis

Re: Procedural wood in Inventor?

SharkDesign — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 13:22:03 GMT

Currently you would need to add your own texture or image to it if you cannot find one in the library.

You can try applying a photo and applying it with a decal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfFm74Go_74

Re: Procedural wood in Inventor?

travis.designer.vn — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 14:05:01 GMT

It's not easy because the wood section include wood long grain and ring.

Re: Procedural wood in Inventor?

SharkDesign — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 14:07:02 GMT

That's why you use an image and not a texture.

Re: Procedural wood in Inventor?

swalton — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 14:54:51 GMT

Speaking for myself (I am not an Autodesk employee), I believe that Autodesk has made a strategic business decision to limit the number of Fusion 360 features/tools that are added to Inventor.

I expect that Autodesk's preferred workflow would be for users to do their design work in Inventor, then import the model into Fusion 360 for rendering, CAM, or other Fusion-only tools.

Of course, once users accept that they have to use additional software to get access to useful rendering, CAM, or analysis tools, doesn't mean that Autodesk tools are the best choice.

Maybe Blender or some of the online-only renders will work for your needs.

Re: Procedural wood in Inventor?

SharkDesign — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 16:15:48 GMT

There might be some strategy behind it, but from what I understand it's a coding issue.

Fusion is pretty new, they release a new version every 6 weeks, they can pretty much put what they want in it.

Changing things on Inventor involves loads of unpicking of existing code and messing about. Even 'simple' fixes can take months.

The appearance libraries haven't been updated in ages so maybe that will get some love soon, but the last time they updated them they made white appear as grey so don't hold your breath! 😉