Simple Shaded Option for Drawing Views

[mflayler]

Currently there is not an easy way to adjust shaded color views in Inventor's drawing environment.  Shaded Drawing views currently use a lighting style not available to users to edit.  The addition of the specular color toggle was a nice improvement but there needs to be a setting to completely disable lighting if a user chooses to.  This could then provide a simple color for an entire part instead of one that presents shadows and gradients.

Purposed solution;

Add an additional toggle to drawing view dialogs or document settings for "Simple Shaded View and "Advanced Shaded View" where one presents the colors simply as they are with no highlighting or shadows and another option for as it currently is in the software.  Other CAD programs can do this and while it is a cosmetic issue that does not affect all users, some users rely on color in their views.

[mflayler]

This would also work if Technical Illustration Visual Style was available in the Rendering of the Shaded View.

[Maxim-CADman77]

Do you mean the state after editing rgistry key like this:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\Inventor\RegistryVersion18.0\Applets\DrawingLayout\Preferences]
"Suppress Specular Color"=dword:00000001

?

[Anonymous]

Mark,

I have been bugging Autodesk for this now going on 2 years, and they told me to post about it today ... which I did.  Then I went looking for what's out there already and seen yours!  Have you found any solutions yet?

Stacy Mitchell in Alabama

[WheresWally]

Required.!

Solutions kinda, set the Appearance with Self-illumination with luminance at 10,000 (will have a similar effect)

or, publish a raster image from a presentation (ipn), bring the picture back into a drawing sheet as a symbol and overlay it with a 'hidden line removed' view on a drawing sheet.

[crifersix]

This is the very thing I was looking to resolve today. Has this ever been addressed in the last 2 years?

[fraserscott]

Can we please have an update on this matter. The shadows created on an Isometric view are hindering anybody that wishes their parts/assembly to show an accurate colour representation. Greys are often much darker due to the default lighting style. If there is no plan to fix this within the software please at least provide a simple and official work around.

[Anonymous]

Solution; go back to using AutoCAD LMAO!!!  Jokes aside; Autodesk, yes we need an answer.

[dan_szymanski]

Accepted idea [29719]. Thanks!

[fraserscott]

Looking forward to the outcome on this! 🙂

[beardrafting]

im glad to see this has finally been accepted. Its challenging for ideas to gain support when people post the same/similar ideas on different threads. From what I can tell this idea was posted in

2014-43 votes

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ideas/drawing-view-appearance-options/idi-p/4750955

2015 -62 votes

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ideas/quot-wireframe-with-visible-edges-only-quot-and-shadow...

2015 -3 votes (archived with no link to existing threads)

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ideas/drawing-views-filled-but-not-shaded/idi-p/5552788

2017 -22 votes

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ideas/inventor-modeling-visual-styles-must-be-available-in-d...

Not having shadows available in Iso views or even in drawings at all has made a very complicated work flow to get images into tech docs, and involves using other software outside of Autodesk.

I wanted to suggest if it helps, that any view with lines and monochrome shadows, the lines and the shadows would still be rendered as a vector image. Currently all color layers are a vector which I think is ok.

Another point is to have the saved/updated camera views and view styles from presentation files actually link to the drawing views. Other than exploded views, I can't figure out what the point of presentation files are for in connecting with drawing files. I'm still looking for more education on that topic.

I look forward to this 6 year old topic being implemented into an update for IV 2021!!

[dan_szymanski]

This idea has been implemented within Autodesk Inventor 2022. Please review the Inventor 2022 What's New article here, for more information regarding how you may leverage customized shaded views within your drawings. Special thanks to everyone who cast a vote for it.

[fraserscott]

Fantastic News!! Looking forward to testing this later in the week once I have installed 2022. Many thanks!

[fraserscott]

@dan_szymanski Could you please advise me on how to achieve the simplified shaded option. From what I can see, the only update is the Default IBL which mirrors the lighting of your model onto your idw drawing. This isn't what I was expecting. Am I doing something wrong?

I need my drawing views to match the colours/images as they are in the libraries, without any form of lighting/reflections/shadows etc. 

Please see below example. All 4 elevations are shaded differently when I need to show White walls and Grey hook rails. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards,

Fraser

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[dan_szymanski]

Hello @fraserscott, I am not sure if I am understanding your question properly. If you want legacy shaded view behavior, you can set the lighting style within your target model (in your case it looks like an assembly) to "Two Lights". The new behavior/enhancement within Autodesk Inventor 2022 allows shaded views within the Drawing environment to match the selected lighting style within your target models.

-Dan