Fixed angle renders

[Anonymous]

I have roughly 70 products that I need to render, but unlike Solidworks Fusion 360 doesn't allow me to set an angle for the render other than the standard. I would like to set a fixed angle for all the products so that when they are lined up on a page their appearance is consistent.

Is there a workaround? Just toggling the view cube by eye is not precise enough for an engineering program.

[colin.smith]

 Hi electicartist,

The closest thing I can think of is to set a named view and keep using that camera to render.  

You would have to set up a new design for the purposes of rendering and insert your models in to the workspace.

Here is the workflow I had in mind:

• Create a new design and save it as "Rendering"

• Insert your models in to this design and orient them in the workspace.  You will want to make sure they are all at the origin (no, we don't have a good way to doing this today)
• For this example I only did two

   

   

• Once they are in the workspace and oriented the way you want.  
• Go in to the Render workspace set up one of the models at the angle you want the shot to look
• Browser, click the arrow to open the named views (Top, Front, Right, Bottom) - These are basically cameras.
• Right click on the Named Views label in the browser and select New Named View to add a new Named View
• Right Click on the new named view and rename it Render

   

• Now that named view is locked.  If you tumble the model and then click on the Render named view it will go back to the original setting.
• Now you can toggle the visibility of the various models and push a render for each one.

  

Hope that helps.

I have captured your request to have a way to dial in the exact angle of the camera.

Cheers,

Colin

[Anonymous]

Is this still the only way to generate renders of multiple models with the same orientation?