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
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