Inventor image renderer?

[Lewis C]

Hello, I would like to know if there is another program or plugin you can use with Inventor to produce photorealistic images.

Solidworks have an additional program called Photoview 360. Does anybody know of a similar product to use with Inventor??

Many Thanks.

[Lewis C]

Anybody know of one?

[Lewis C]

Ill take this as a no.

[SLW210]

Wow, you waited less than 2hrs for a response?

Do you have Inventor Studio?

[JD Mather]

Ill take this as a no.

Then I won't give you the two solutions.

[Lewis C]

Hello sorry for my impatience. Umm yes I do have inventor studio, under the environments tab.
JD, can you please tell me the two solutions?

Thank you.

[JD Mather]

You have found the "free" (free in that it is included in Inventor) solution - Inventor Studio.
Also Inventor Publisher. http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet...&siteID=123112
If you are a student you can download Inventor Publisher for free as well from http://www.autodesk.com/edcommunity

[Lewis C]

Publisher looks very good, does it produce photo realistic images? If so thats exactly what i'm after. I am not happy with the options you have within Inventor, they are very basic and I cannot set the level of DPI, or lighting properly. Studio is better for that as you can set the DPI, change the lights e.g. spot/point light but you cannot output images using the realistic option, only illustrative or shaded, which I find very annoying.

Also I have just found a program called Keyshot, it looks very good aswell, and apparently compatible with Inventor. Do you have any experience or advice about this program?

[SLW210]

Check out the SHOWCASE forum several there use Keyshot.

Post questions about Keyshot in the DESIGN SOFTWARE forum.

[JD Mather]

...but you cannot output images using the realistic option, ...

Sure you can.