Presenting Inventor

Designs with Showcase

Jim Swain

Project Manager,

Manufacturing Solutions

Synergis

Why Present? Why Visualize?

• Do you need to

present your

designs to your

boss?

• Your boss’s boss?

• The customer?

• Do you want to

have your work

look better than

your

competitor’s?

You have Showcase

in the Suites!!!

Agenda

At the end of this

session you will be

able to:

• Send Inventor

designs to Showcase

• Leverage Inventor

View

Representations

• Leverage Inventor

Positional

Representations

• Change backgrounds

• Change materials

What’s New in 2014

Run multiple sessions of

Showcase concurrently.

Publish Photoshop Images

(.PSD files).

Revit Interoperability.

Improved Decal tools.

Search for Materials in

use.

Depth of Field and other

added camera

properties per shot.

Sending to Showcase

• Suites Workflow tools:

• Conceptual

• Constraint Animation

• Realistic

Pulling Into Showcase

Import

Import Settings

• File > Settings >

Import Settings

• Choose Inventor

for File Format

• Set Up Axis

• Import

Representations

Inventor Guidelines

Inventor Guidelines for Showcase:

• Unsuppress everything you want to see in Showcase.

• Check for unresolved links.

• Design View Reps and Positional Reps are supported.

• Assembly constraints create Showcase Behaviors.

• Private representations (Inventor 2011 and later), level of detail

representations, and assembly level cuts are not supported.

• Sub-assembly material overrides are not supported.

Inventor View Representations

• Alternatives > A

Inventor Positional Representations

• Alternatives > A

Changing Materials

• Change materials > M

Changing Backgrounds

• Change

Environments > E

Now to the Show

What Else Can You Do?

• Slideshows

• Lights

• Editing Materials

• Animations

• Exporting

• Images

• Animations

• Simulation Results

Thank You