I'd agree Inventor studio is really easy for design engineers to do renders, animations, etc. But after many months of continuously working on Inventor studio, I found several areas where it is lacking in-terms of being user friendly:
- Fade animation doesn't work well. When fading a component to make it invisible, it still shows up like a surface / shell in the rendered output - both in high quality, draft renders. It is annoying and now I have to animate and hide the item in some other way to avoid this drawback.
- Animation timeline is NOT easy to tweak. Let's say you have a lot of movements adding up to about 1 min of animation. Now after adding all those you are told that you missed some movement in between. Now you can't just insert it into the timeline and have the other movements ripple out of the way. It is extremely tedious to manually select each animation and move it forward to make way for the one to be added in between. Why can't there be an option to insert a blank gap of say 10s in between and have everything else ripple out of the way ? This is very unforgiving and by far the most problematic feature of Studio
- Production rendering - let the render window clearly state that it is the production that is going to be rendered and not the animation. It will be confusing for beginners to know whats going on.
- (Probably) bug in animate component - If I try to animate a component's rotation between 10s to 15s by 40 degrees - it will ALWAYS by default start from 0s to 15s. I have done animations longer than 4 mins and it is extremely annoying to manually re-time it again to begin from where you wanted.
- Animation browser tree collapses on certain events - Try doing undo on something in the animation timeline - the entire browser tree collapses for no reason. Change the animation's total length - again.. the tree collapses. Why ?
