Inventor Apply Multi Colour Surface Colour For Rendering
@Yashasvi23481 wrote:
Hi Support,
I am after designing vehicles and machinery for military background. As such I need to colour or apply texture to surface body like beige, green and off white yellow. Can I apply multi colour surface colour ?
Multicolour, as in camouflage? this would probably require the use of (seamless) textures, but yes it is possible.
Also, in rendering studio, I want to create a background of sand battlefield or mountain ranges. Can we do in inventor or export from somewhere. I could see there is background of warehouse.
Easiest would probably be to set your background color to an image and use realistic view and raytracing to make your render. (it works for studio as well)
I am after making concept drawing and require rendering so need to make realistic.
How realistic?, Inventor might not be the best choice for realistic rendering.
Does illustrator work with inventor model ? Never done this before. Rendering taking long time any tips and tricks will be helpful.
Not sure what you're after here, Adobe illustrator? that's a vector program which doesn't work with inventor models directly.
You can export inventor drawings (idw,dwg) and import those in Illustrator for 2D line drawings...
I need to submit by next Thursday so if you can suggest something today, I can read over weekend.
Thank you in advance.
Attaching screenshot of what I am after.
See my answers/questions in the quote.
Can you give more specific details on what you need help with, so others can chime in as well?
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Quick example of what i'm suggesting:
Random tank model from GrabCAD, using the image you provided as a background.
If you have access to 3ds Max, you can get good results from there. But it's no easy learning path.
Here's an initial screenshot of a quick combination done there.
Walter Holzwarth
Hi @Yashasvi23481,
In order to use a .jpg as a flat background you just have to change the background image in the appication options:
For the camouflage texture, start by downloading seamless textures from the web.
After you have some, you'll have to create a color using the desired texture:
(don't forget to rename the color)
Hope that you can figure it out with the help of these images. 
Who is this "Neil"? 
(lol, sorry... i'm already used to seeing my name misspelled this way)
As for your questions... i don't really know that much about what is possible with 3D PDF's... but i'm doubting it is possible to get textures in there the way you want... maybe there are ways to set up a different template for the 3D PDF but i don't know how to do that. (might help with the planes in the pdf as well)
What are the conditions you need for sharing your files... i'd expect you'd make a render and show that, or do you need the receiver to render them as well?
What software do they have access to? if it's for rendering purposes then you might have to look into 3DS Max in order to use a "neutral" filetype for share an entire scene. (.fbx)
For your last question, Inventor doesn't allow you to make your own 3D environment scene (like the warehouse, desert road, etc.). At least not yet, to my knowledge.
Again, 3DS max would give you more options as you can use images as a panoramic / photosphere background that go around your model.
For 3DS Max you could download such background from places like https://hdrihaven.com/hdris/category/?c=outdoor
Hi Yash,
@Yashasvi23481 wrote:
Receiver end is graphic designer who makes catalogues and scenes so receiver has access to .obj files as well as .fbx. ... No rendering to be done by me but receiver can photoshop they have illustrator software and sketch up viewer.
Photoshop, illustrator and Sketchup Viewer are not rendering programs, so if you're not doing the rendering i'm wondering if your receiver can actually do so... but that's for you to find out.
If you don't have access to 3DS Max through a suite or collection then you'll need to purchase it.
A possible free alternative could be Blender, but you'll have to learn how that works just like Max.
(and it doesn't directly import Inventor models, you'd have to export/import with a neutral format like .step)
@Yashasvi23481 wrote:
Rendering a small assembly takes a while as it goes past through lot of iterations, is there a quicker way to apply rendering ? I have to render 8 models. There is an option in rendering saying until satisfaction..what does that mean I mean who sets satisfaction level ?
Yes, rendering will take a while depending on how fast your system is. Inventor uses the CPU for rendering, so the more cores your processor has, the faster it will go.
The render option "until satisfactory" means it will keep rendering until you are satisfied with the quality and pause it to save the image.
A possibly (slightly) faster way to render would be by using the realistic view/raytrace option instead of going into Studio.
