Shadows in Inventor

[Anonymous]

Is there a way in Inventor to model shadows?

More precisely, in a part file I have  a body, a point and a surface, and I want to find the projection of the body on the surface with respect to the point.

Thanks in advance.

[JDMather]

Can  you attach your file here?

[Anonymous]

I can't, sorry. What I can do is attach this screenshot, maybe it explains my point.

[blair]

Possibly within Studio, place a Light Source at the point in the Cab that you are using as the operators head. You might need to create a solid curved part rather than the curved surface that you now are showing. 

[Anonymous]

Studio? Is it expensive?

Anyway I don't think they're going to buy it just for the visibility regulations that they ask me twice a year.

What I was asking is some expedient of you Inventor-ninjas.

Right now, as shown in the picture, I take a plane passing through the operator's viewpoint, I intersect it with the obstacles, I project theese intersections into a sketch in the above mentioned plane and I draw lines that represent the shadows... then I repeat the procedure with another plane... it's rather time-consuming.

The fact is I KNOW Inventor can do this, because of all the ray tracing stuff... it's just not available to us users.

Tips, tricks and ideas are welcome.

[blair]

Studio is part of Inventor, it's the "Rendering" environment.

[Anonymous]

Ok I didn't understand. I'll have a look at what you say in a few days. Thanks

[mdavis22569]

Blair was showing you it's already there