3rd Party Renderers?

[SharkDesign]

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. 

[johnsonshiue]

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!

[ChrisMitchell01 · Accepted solution]

A few Autodesk University sessions which may be of use:

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

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

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-...

Hope this helps,
Chris

[SharkDesign]

Thanks for that Chris, very helpful. 

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

[arron.craig]

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. 

[gcoombridge]

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...

[dgorsman]

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

[SharkDesign]

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@dgorsman wrote:

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

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Tried both and got the same result. 

[SharkDesign · Accepted solution]

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.