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Inventor Essentials - Visual Styles, Visualization, and Graphics

by Neil Cross

Whether you're interested in better understanding the graphical capabilities of Inventor or just need to make your model look appealing for a client, this course will guide you through graphics in Autodesk Inventor. Software required: Inventor 2017.

What you'll learn

With Autodesk Inventor, you can make your designs look appealing on screen and easily manipulate different visual styles to assist with the design process. This course, Inventor Essentials - Visual Styles, Visualization, and Graphics, will guide you through the numerous visual styles and appearance settings available to you in Autodesk Inventor. It will start by going over the relevant Inventor application options, helping you to understand the settings that dictate the visuals. You'll then move onto visual styles and display states that alter how your 3D models are presented on screen as you're working on them. You'll also go over aesthetics such as lighting styles, ambient environments, and shadow control before finishing it up with an overview of the ray tracing module. By the end of this course, you'll be ready to start making graphics in Autodesk Inventor that will help sell your designs.

About the author

Neil is a 25 year veteran of Autodesk design software. He has worked for a platinum reseller in a highly technical role for near 10 years, consulted for Autodesk, held multiple industry CAD systems management positions, Autodesk Expert Elite member, along with being a Dell influencer partner, two time Autodesk University speaker and speaker at Intel Vision 2022 launching the 12th Gen Mobile HX processors representing Autodesk software. Neil also founded and runs the Autodesk focused Youtube ch... more

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