autodesk inventor professional 2012 help

I am not sure why I cannot see some of the featurs in the tutorials. I would like to see a lot more visual aids in the tutorials. This is an excellent way to get the best outcome for all. The good thing about those is, I can add my own comments and then submit them. The tutorials are ok but not good, and some things are a bit confusing. Its a real shame that Inventor Publisher or Inventor Pro will not save an aniamted pdf. I do not want to save a vIdeo since that can cause issues with files size and also, the video formats that are created will not work on a Mac. I did a couple of test by saving the tutorial animations. Basic fade is no problems as with the side show animation, these are easy to achive. To be honest I am struggling to animate using constraints. You can setup a Simulation in the “Dynamic Simulation” environment, including real life variables and then export it to Inventor Studio and render it from there. It makes a very simple animation and the video export quality is not very good. You can chain several constraints to the first one, but you can only drive one constraint at a time. You will have to create a constraint to define the part’s position and then drive it (right click over the constraint and select Drive Constraint). Which basically allows varying the constraint’s offset/value in time. The easiest way is directly in the Assembly environment, using the “Drive constraint” tool. It’s very easy to use, just a couple of tutorials and you’ll master it in no time.

You can render the animation and obtain nice videos. There you can also setup lighting styles, surface textures, background images, etc. In which you can create a very elaborate animation with moving parts, fading elements, camera movements and more. The best way is using the Inventor Studio Environment. There are three ways to make animations within Inventor.

Autodesk inventor professional 2012 help