Rendering problems

[Anonymous]

Hi Everybody, 

We bought a file in .obj format. Unfortunately the output is different from what we expected. Here attached you can find the image as it should look and as it appears to us. Could you kindly help us?

Thank you!

How it should look

How it appears

[Neil_Cross]

The "how it should look" picture is a final render, after somebody has worked on the original data and spent hours creating lighting and manipulating textures... and that original picture was definitely not done in Autodesk Inventor. 

The OBJ file is an export of the modeling data which rarely contains any texture information.

[Anonymous]

Thank you Neil!

Do you know any website from which we can download a similar image to open with Inventor (.ipt format)?

[Neil_Cross · Accepted solution]

Sorry there's no way Inventor can do anything like that, that's not what Inventor is for.  The closest Autodesk product which would/could do a scene like that is Autodesk Revit.  That image has probably been edited in something like Adobe Photoshop too after render.

Are you wanting an actual full 3D model or just an image/flat picture to be imported into Inventor?

[Anonymous]

We are looking for a full 3D model. We were wondering if there was a website like this https://www.cgtrader.com/ where we can buy a file similar to the one we attached that could be opened in Autodesk Inventor. 

Thanks again!

[rtowne72]

To further what @Neil_Cross was saying and from what I am gathering from what you are saying, Inventor will not open the File and render like what you are seeing no matter where you purchase the models.  The OBJ file will have texture mapping attached via a reference when opened in a program that will recognize them such as Alias, Maya, Vred, 3DS Max etc..  Often these are separate files that tell the rendering program what to do for a wrap such as in the trees you see.  The rendering shows as trees but the CAD data shows as boxes.

A rendering can be created from the data you show but texture mapping must be applied (in whatever rendering program you choose) and generally speaking a CAD station can handle rendering but is not set up for it optimally.

Hope this helps you understand what you are up against.

[kelly.young]

Hello @Anonymous I see that you are visiting as a new member to the Inventor Forum.
Welcome to the Autodesk Community!

How much are you trying to spend on these .obj files and how generic do you want them to be?

I bought a drone (Mavic Pro - no affiliation just wanted compact fold design and motion track for snowboarding), flew it around the house on 2 second burst, brought into ReCap Photo stitched it all together, exported as .obj and it kept all the colors on the faces and worked with rendering. 

Friday Pictures 10-13-17

It depends on how they are saved, inside ReCap Photo there were a ton of different export settings and types.

I exported each of them and imported into Inventor one by one, and one came in perfect with every corner of triangle able to make points from.

(I botched the capture came in 1:35 scale somehow but for first flight it was highly successful.)

It depends on the settings they exported and what program they used to make the .obj.

If you can find out that info it might be helpful. 

What are you trying to do with the .obj within Inventor?

Please select the Accept as Solution button if a post solves your issue or answers your question.

[bespel]

Hi Fabio,

that render was done , probably, in Lumion.

You can achieve a result like that in 15 minutes in Lumion.

It's a shame, that in the Autodesk portfolio you can find a software to do realtime render, like Showcase, or use a game engine (like Luion or Stingray, >>>dismissed).

 Autodesk is not moving with the times.

You have to try it in Inventor.

(Good look Fabio)

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! Many thanks for sharing the video! But, I fail to see a connection to Autodesk Inventor. The rendering and animation is for architectural design, which is not the primary focus in Autodesk Inventor. Inventor is a 3D feature-based parametric solid modeling CAD package geared toward mechanical design. I am not saying you should not or you could not use Inventor to do architectural design. But, if you do, you will find there aren't many workflows targeting architectural design particularly. It is because it was not meant for that.

Inventor is best for objects you want to make using subtractive or additive manufacturing method. The CAD model is the object in the ideal conditions that you want to match based on given budget and tolerance level.

Thanks again!

[dgorsman]

I'm not certain that would even fall under architectural design.  It's likely a technical plant design, while it *might* be done in Revit it's far more likely to have been done in a combination of programs such as Plant3D (piping) / Advance Steel (structural) / Inventor (equipment) / Civil3D (grade).  The contents are consolidated and exported to visualization software like Maya (given the OBJ format), which is used to make a pretty picture out of them.

Once you get to the bigger scale Inventor is no longer in the picture, and once you get to the OBJ file all technical data (which I suspect the OP was after) is gone completely.  I have to wonder what the point is of selling (let alone purchasing) this as an OBJ.