Rendering Animation with Inventor 2016 Best Settings

[Anonymous]

I am having problems rendering animations in Inventor Studio 2016. It is taking forever... I have done animations successfully in Inventor 2013, but a lot has changed in 2016. Has anyone experimented with the best overall settings to produce a fairly high quality animation. I need this to look pretty nice because we will be using it as a marketing youtube video. I try to keep my overall animation size to less than 30 seconds per clip. Thanks all.

These settings I would like to keep:

Resolution 1280 x 720

Frame Rate: 24

File Type: AVI

These are the settings I am not sure about:

Render Duration:

Lighting and Material Accuracy:

Image Filtering (Antialiasing):

Video Compression:

[VinodBalasubramanian]

Hi,

We have a known issue on rendering being stuck. Yours might be similar to the one below. If you can provide us your dataset, I can validate and confirm. Our developers are working to address this issue.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcartic...

Looking forward to your reply.

[Anonymous]

Actually I am not having that issue, it rendered just fine but it took 48 hours to do the full render. I know there is an issue with increasing the undo file size. I went ahead and increased that file size before doing the render. When the render finished I was not very happy with it, the lighting was very bright (I am using the default assembly lighting style) and there was a lot of artifacting with fading components.

Here are the full settings I used.

Resolution 1280 x 720

Frame Rate: 24

File Type: AVI (compression: Intel IYUV codec)

Render Duration: 30 (by iteration)

Lighting and Material Accuracy: High

Image Filtering (Antialiasing): Gaussian (width 3.0)

[Anonymous]

We just purchased Keyshot to render our Inventor models.

So far I've been very happy with its ease of use and the quality of the output.

I've used it for still renderings only thus far, but it does animations as well.

Might be something to look into.

Cheers,

Ben

[dgorsman]

Thats about 4 minutes per frame.  For high quality materials and lighting at 720p resolution its not out of the realm of reality, especially straight-to-video.  Could you render to frames for a shorter segment, and post a couple of those frames so we can see the problems in context?

[Anonymous]

Ok the uploaded image below shows what I am talking about. When I did similar animations in 2013 it did not have these same issues. I wonder if I need to render for a longer amount of iterations or changing it to a certain amout of time to render. I really wish someone could comment on the settings they used to have some level of success for their animations. Thanks.

[VinodBalasubramanian]

Hi Jeremy,

Can you able to send the model to us. I can share a secure link with you. Also did you use 2016 with R2 or R3 release. Looking forward to your inputs.

[Anonymous]

Ok I am completely up to date on all of my updates for Inventor, so it was done on the latest and greatest version of Inventor.

I can send you the model just let me know the next steps, so I can get you a pack and go.

Thanks.

[VinodBalasubramanian]

Thank you. Can you upload your model file to this link,

https://autodesk.box.com/s/5ay4hsl6nxxjzevlbv2ue79a6dug8szk

Let me know if you have any difficulties accessing it.

[Anonymous]

Ok do I need to create a new account? I am not sure how to upload?

[VinodBalasubramanian]

Hi,

Can you click the link in internet explorer and then drag and drop the files to that window. You don't need a login to place the files. If you have issues, let me know. I will send you a secure invite to your email.

[Anonymous]

When I try to drag and drop the files it just wants to open them, so yah it still does not work.

[Anonymous]

Ok files have been uploaded.