Rendering and Animating in Inventor

We have more recently been figuring out rendering and animating assemblies in Inventor. I have used Keyshot 4 for rendering Images of my senior project last semester. It was a slow process and bogged down my custom gaming system at my home. The renders were pretty good. Inventor has once again proven to be an amazing and streamlined program for not only solid modeling but also for rendering. The renders are easy to set up and the awesome part is it turns out high quality renders in a short time. Inventor's ability to set up and animate constraints in a simple and streamlined fashion is amazing. Very happy to be using Inventor and am excited for what will come during the last month or so of this semester.

Exploded Views and Drawing Files

These drawing files are proving to be very useful for displaying and annotating files. On interesting thing I found is that when you save the drawing file under a certain name, that name is automatically input into the drawing number section in the title block. Anyways, this image shows another really cool feature of Inventor which is exploded views. Inventor lets you bring in an assembly and make a custom exploded view and it includes all the necessary lines and such. It lets you run animations of the assembly with ease. Next up is Rendering.

Inventor and Assemblies

Inventor makes making assemblies very easy. In the assembly shown the movement of the screw moves the adjusting block which in turn moves the lifting block on top of it.
All of this is done with the use of constraints which were very easy to figure out. These are really fun to figure out how to constrain and orient.