Walkthroughs

[christopherr]

Good Morning all,

Does anyone know if you are able to do 3D walkthroughs in inventor?

We have recently upgraded to inventor and I had been using autocad 2008 where you have to draw a camera path and camera target. Is there a similar procedure for creating walkthrough in inventor studio?

Thanks in advance

[Buffeldrek]

hi there chris,

yes, it is possible - but not on the way you are used in AutoCAD

in assemblymode - mode'll have to set the view to perspective mode, then it is a lot easier to fly through the model. a 3dcontroller makes this smoother as well.

If you want the walkthrough to be automated, you can do so in inventor studio - make the timeline visible, and define one camera. The idea is to move the camera along the model depending on the timeline. So start with you cameraorigin at 0 seconds - drag the timeline to a few seconds later and + zoom rotate to a new point of view and save that to the camera position. Set several point around or through the model along the timeline and inventor will calulate its smoothes path. In the and you can play the animation or even record it into a movie...

[christopherr]

Thanks for that.

I dont actually seem to be able to 'walkthrough' the model though. All you seem to be able to do is zoom in and out of a point and pan and orbit around the same point. This makes it quite difficult to position the camera where you want it.

Any further advice?

Thanks in advance

[Buffeldrek]

when you do the orbid - the model rotates around one point - to change the rotationpoint click leftmouse button during the orbid command on another location on the model
then the model slides over to that point an will rotate towands that
reorientation the rotationpoint will make the walkthrough possible

[christopherr]

Thanks again.

I am aware of what you are talking about, its just no where as easy as i am use to with a 3rd party package i have been using in autocad. With that program you could switch between orbit and walkthrough where you can actually move the camera in real time.

[Buffeldrek]

hmmm yeah - autocad has extra tools for that wich inventor hasn't
it's all in the habit i guess
have you tried a 3D controller?