Motion Study Animation - Local Render

[shawn]

Allow motion study animations to be locally rendered.  Currently a cloud render is required for motion study animation renderings.  These renderings require too many credits for a single animation - especially when multiple renders are required to get the camera angles correct.  Even if these renderings take a long time it would be very useful to all then to be done locally. 

[Anonymous]

Yes,fusion 360 rendering is very useful. I'm very like to use it.

[Innovative-Plastic-Solutions]

I completely agree. Often it takes several test renders to get a feel for the right output which we should be able to do locally to save on money, and if our machines are powerful enough, render locally as well.

[Lordinio]

Also for me even though my PC is 5 years old rendering locally can take 5 minutes, while in the cloud taking 1 full hour.

[Anonymous]

I also agree with this. It's not fair to force us to use cloud rendering.

[ectorm]

Please give us local rendering! Call me a control freak or impatient, but I like consistent/predictable ETA's.

[Anonymous]

I echo this - quite frustrating, I spend so much on workstation hardware and can't even use those resources.

[SchoolfurnDesigner]

 I also agree, There are so many variables to get right for an animation rendering. To pay for experiments is frustrating. 

[wfrancis2AD8W]

Agree on the frustration here. I'd love to be able to render motion studies in Keyshot. I wonder if a plugin could be made to update Keyshot frame by frame (like the plugin in now allows for updates from Fusion to keyshot) and render the output to images I can assemble later.

[Anonymous]

I agree too!  I'd really love local motion study rendering.  I don't want to have to pay and wait when I'm just playing around getting a feel for something..

[stefano.m1301]

You get my vote. Although the cloud rendering option is great, I do agree that it would be more convenient to have a local render option available. The Fusion 360 team is adding new features almost with every update, so hopefully this will be added soon as well.

[Tazinor]

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I agree, and lately the queue time for the cloud rendering is much longer than the local render time, and for those who have invested in high end computers, the requirement of doing everything in the cloud seems unnecessary. 

[Anonymous]

This is a fundamental piece of the platform which must be addressed, the cost for experimentation is far too high. Especially if Autodesk is targeting this to Startups with a focus on rapid prototyping, if anything it is severely counter intuitive. 

I would really appreciate some dialogue from the Autodesk team on this, as I see it is probably a huge feature which enables some wonderful profit margins, it is far too limiting for market adoption. Especially if those using it have already made investments for valuable and efficient hardware. 

Does the Fusion platform intend to embrace local rendering methods for specifically motion studies?

What is the timeline on this feature if they intend to implement?

If your team doesn't plan to do it, I am curious to learn what your response is in terms of the project and companies motivation for limiting to cloud rendering for motion study projects? Do you think it will limit those in terms of ease of adoption?

BTW - I love the Fusion/BIM360/Forge Platform developers, integrators + community, thank you for all the hardwork I have love and appreciation for what you all do!

[joncolinleonard]

Fusion 360 is an incredibly useful platform for most of what I do with CAD/CAM. Unfortunately, there are these nagging little issues around things like local rendering versus cloud, particularly forcing me to use the cloud to render motion studies. It's these sorts of decisions that make me vulnerable to competitors of Fusion 360. Is that what is intended with this business model? 

[johnpgerrity]

Plus 1 on the local render - aside from all the reasons given above - a low bandwidth internet connection or no internet connection can make local options very useful. When I visit clients to and want to show them possibilities it is annoying if standard functions at my office can't be replicated in the field .

[william-c-anderson]

I totally agree on the necessity of local rendering for motion studies. I bought a monster PC, let me use it. I'm happy to let it run overnight to render a scene. What the matter, Autodesk, don't you *want* some free publicity for Fusion 360 on Youtube? Or do you already have enough free advertising?