Presentation: How to publish an image without the background

[bowen192]

As per the title, how do I publish an image without the background?

[Anonymous]

Export image as png, check alpha channel.

[mdavis22569]

also if you want it white ...set it to presentation

[bowen192]

Sorry, but I think I'm missing something here.

How do you bring up the Render Image dialog box?

[mdavis22569]

Where do you want to get the presentation from ...

provide a bit more info ...also what version of Inventor?

[Anonymous]

Go to Environments tab then Studio. Click Render Image and follow my steps. This will give you a transparent background.

This is me assuming the version of Inventor you're using.

[bowen192]

I feel like we've crossed wires here.

I am using the Presentation environment within Inventor 2017.

[bowen192]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Go to Environments tab then Studio. Click Render Image and follow my steps. This will give you a transparent background.

This is me assuming the version of Inventor you're using.

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This is all I have:

[mdavis22569]

so you've made a new IPN with an Inventor 2017 template .

[bowen192]

I've created a new IPN, yes.

[Anonymous]

For images I typically go straight from the ipt and into studio to render images with a transparent background (the workflow I've suggested above). I rarely use the presentation environment to do this. Hopefully another member can provide some insight.

[mdavis22569]

can you give a screen shot ..

 I want to see what background you're talking about 

[bowen192]

Thanks, Jacob.

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@mdavis22569 wrote:

can you give a screen shot ..

 I want to see what background you're talking about 

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[Anonymous]

Ah you're trying to actually get the background of the model space removed. I understand now. The only solution I can think of is the one mdavis provided. A good article on this is one by Curtis http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com/2012/09/inventor-background-color-as-white.html

[bowen192]

Ok, thanks. I appreciate the help.

It is a huge oversight by Autodesk to remove the feature though. No transparent background means I'll have to process all shots through Photoshop now.

Plus every time I want to run an animation, I'll have to change backgrounds.

Thanks to everyone else.

[mflayler · Accepted solution]

Apparently no one here has 2017 R2 installed.  Autodesk added it after i pointed out in the beta site that it was a crucial part of the sotware that was missing and something a lot of users desire now that Publisher is gone.

[Anonymous]

This is awesome! Yeah, I haven't had a chance to install R2 yet. So nice to see this implemented.