Inventor Studio - Render Images using a consistent scale & zoom

[Scottyos]

Happy Friday Everyone,

Wanted to pick your brains on the best way to accomplish a feat.

We use our inventor models for our companies catalog pages. We're in the process of switching to a new ERP software that allows for configure and quoting online, with this comes new opportunities for improvement.

The way our software is going to work is overlaying the options via images (not the best cad to software integration but that's what the grand poobah's have chosen).

My question for you is, what is the best way to be able to set up a rendering where the scale of the rendering will have all the components at the same size?

My initial thought is to create an assembly template file with a fixed distance view, load in the parts and then click the home view option prior to rendering the image. I feel like this should probably accomplish what we are trying to do, however I wanted to see if there was a better option out there!

Thanks in advance!

[Anonymous]

Hello, on the market there is a software with better rendering than any other, it is called keyshot and you can load the inventor files or in another format,

[Schredhammer]

I've been doing the same thing for my company & our dealers the past few months. I created a camera named "dealer image" at an isometric position in every part.

[kacper.suchomski]

Hi

There was a topic discussed here recently where a fixed camera was proposed in the main assembly, as you write.

[Cris-Ideas]

If you insist on using inventor studio than you need to control camera in concistent way.

Option 1

- Create a design view representation that you will use for renders

Option 2)

- Wright simple iLogic rule to set view parameters in any moment you want.

Cris.

[Scottyos]

Thank you, I couldn't find anything when I had given it a look before posting.

[chris]

@Scottyos are you open to using something else besides IV for rendering? Once out of IV, cameras, materials, lighting, etc get much better and easier to control. I use MODO and C4D, but Blender is free...

[Scottyos]

Probably going to stick to inventor, we're swapping out our ERP software and the person who's heading up the change is looking to create some images for quoting. He has some previous 3d experience but needs to kick the dust of the tires so I think it would be likely easier to manage just using the inventor studio option.

If we were looking at something like Blender it would mean we'd likely have to train someone as a backup and I don't think we currently have the resources (time mainly) to take on that challenge.