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Can you please provide more info - what version of Inventor? Have you applied all patches/hot-fixes? How are you rendering (through Studio, realistic or raytracing)?
Sam M.
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Can you please provide more info - what version of Inventor? Have you applied all patches/hot-fixes? How are you rendering (through Studio, realistic or raytracing)?
Sam M.
Inventor and Showcase monkey
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In Studio, to "smooth out" the shadows, you need to tweak the shadow settings for the light style.
You have to identify the light that is casting that particular shadow, and change the shadow settings to
smooth.
In this example I used the "stock" Shop Light style and was able to create an example of the "wavy" shadow you are encountering.
I adjusted the Light Style to use SMOOTH shadows with HIGH quality like so (in this case Light 2 of the Shop Lighting style).
You could also adjust the style shadow setting, and then have all the individual lights in that style to use the style setting.
The render after shadow adjustments to the light style now shows a smooth shadow edge.
So why not just make smooth the default setting for all your lights?
It is a trade off.
You can have shadow accuracy but to do so you will trade rendering time to achieve it.
You will notice that smooth shadows take much longer to process (even for this very simple part, rendering time was increased more than ten fold).
In Studio, to "smooth out" the shadows, you need to tweak the shadow settings for the light style.
You have to identify the light that is casting that particular shadow, and change the shadow settings to
smooth.
In this example I used the "stock" Shop Light style and was able to create an example of the "wavy" shadow you are encountering.
I adjusted the Light Style to use SMOOTH shadows with HIGH quality like so (in this case Light 2 of the Shop Lighting style).
You could also adjust the style shadow setting, and then have all the individual lights in that style to use the style setting.
The render after shadow adjustments to the light style now shows a smooth shadow edge.
So why not just make smooth the default setting for all your lights?
It is a trade off.
You can have shadow accuracy but to do so you will trade rendering time to achieve it.
You will notice that smooth shadows take much longer to process (even for this very simple part, rendering time was increased more than ten fold).
Check that your Output is set to High-Quality as well.
Inventor 2020, In-Cad, Simulation Mechanical
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Check that your Output is set to High-Quality as well.
Inventor 2020, In-Cad, Simulation Mechanical
Just insert the picture rather than attaching it as a file
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Delta Tau Chi ΔΤΧ
Try a different Light Environment. It almost looks like each light is casting it's own wave.
Inventor 2020, In-Cad, Simulation Mechanical
Just insert the picture rather than attaching it as a file
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Delta Tau Chi ΔΤΧ
Try a different Light Environment. It almost looks like each light is casting it's own wave.
Inventor 2020, In-Cad, Simulation Mechanical
Just insert the picture rather than attaching it as a file
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Delta Tau Chi ΔΤΧ
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