Professional | ~3 hr.

Visualize and Animate Your Product in Manufacturing

Course | Outcomes and capabilities
Great engineering deserves outstanding presentation and this learning path walks you through different visualization and animation options available to you. You will start with typical mechanical product design, review different visualization options right in the viewport, then position it within a realistic scene and get your first photo-realistic images. Continue on to animation inside Autodesk Inventor, detailed product assembly or service documentation and videos and then proceed to more advanced visualization inside 3ds Max.
Outline

Great engineering deserves outstanding presentation and this learning path walks you through different visualization and animation options available to you. 

You will start with typical mechanical product design, review different visualization options right in the viewport, then position it within a realistic scene and get your first photo-realistic images. Continue on to animation inside Autodesk Inventor, detailed product assembly or service documentation and videos and then proceed to more advanced visualization inside 3ds Max. 

Upon completing this course, you will acquire the following skills:

  • Render photo-realistic images of your product with Autodesk Inventor
  • Create fly-through videos and animation in Autodesk Inventor
  • Create assembly and service documentation and animation

Course modules

~30 min.
Visualize your product design: Image Rendering
Module

In this module, you will learn how to set up the scene, material appearance, and get your first rendered image in Autodesk Inventor.

~15 min.
Create animation of your product in Autodesk Inventor
Module

In this module, you will set up component motion and visibility, camera rotation and generate an animation of your assembly.

~30 min.
Animate assembly or service instruction in Autodesk Inventor
Module

In this module, you will learn how to create an exploded view of an assembly, prepare images for assembly or service instruction, and export an assembly or service animation. 

~20 min.
From Inventor to Virtual Reality
Module

The focus of this module is to take an Inventor tractor model, bring it to 3ds max, and put it in the VR environment.

~15 min.
Prepping for VR
Module

The focus of this module is to prepare our dataset in 3ds Max for use in VR using 3ds Max Interactive.

~25 min.
VR with 3ds Max Interactive
Module

The focus of this module is to render the VR projects into 3ds Max Interactive.