Prevent objects in assembly to cast shadow / reflection

[wellerchen]

Hi, is it possible to render an assembly in inventor / studio, and prevent some objects to cast shadows and reflection in the others?

The idea is to sketch a setup with mirrors, lenses and a laserbeam, where the beam (manually modeled) is visible, but does not cast a shadow, or the reflections are visible in the other objects of the assembly...

Maybe some other software is useful here? 

Thanks in advance!

[Anonymous]

As I know this is not possible within inventor studio.

And in my opinion Inventor studio will only be used for quick rendering or animations.

A better option is to make use of a real render program.

[mdavis22569]

Check out 

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-lt/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/I...

[mdavis22569]

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Tniens wrote:

And in my opinion Inventor studio will only be used for quick rendering or animations.

A better option is to make use of a real render program.

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Personally I think that looks pretty good for not being a real rendering program.   Nothing special was done here to have it look like this ...

I think a lot of people who post some great renderings from Inventor Studio would disagree with ...

[wellerchen]

in principle, the rendering capability of inventor studio is satisfactory for my needs, so that is not the issue.

the detail I want to resolve is the reflection of one individual object in all other ones. see the example picture attached, the 'beam' propagates through the lens (top left) and is then (manually) reflected from the mirror. the polished surface however also shows a reflection itself, as if the beam was a solid object. being not so physically correct to see the beam at all in the first place, it is much more disturbing to also see the mirror images.

maybe I did not find the part about that issue in your link?

thank you!

[mdavis22569]

Can you share it ....

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[JDMather]

Do you really need Studio Render

or

would Realistic Visual Style without shadows or reflections serve your needs?

[wellerchen]

@JDMather: in principle yes, the thing is, the reflections button you highlighted is only for the ground plate, not within the objects.

@mdavis22569: see attached zip, hope it works that way!?

[mdavis22569]

I'm still getting it on the polished surface.   Might need to change that face property ... but I'm trying different options

[Daniel248 · Accepted solution]

Here's another ideea:

Rendered as two separate images in Studio, and post-processed in GIMP.

Spoiler

What’s interesting, a mirror doesn’t show its own shadow… is that a good or a bad thing for a Vampire? ;-))

[wellerchen]

That might be a suitable alternative. Although I still have hope for a 'not manual' solution 

[wellerchen]

@mdavis22569: did you have any success trying different options? otherwise I will then take Daniel248's advice and accept the solution...

[mdavis22569]

i haven't played with it again ...I'll do it some more this weekend if you want

[wellerchen]

yes, that would be great. thank you in advance! 🙂

[mdavis22569]

something like this 

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[Anonymous]

Hi, 

May I ask how to realize the red and blue light path?

What's the setting for materials?

Thanks,

Qiang