Mastering: Autodesk® Inventor® 2010

Chapter 16. Inventor Studio

The means to communicate your design, in order to sell your concept or product, is valuable whether your customer is internal or external to your company. Visualization, through static imagery or animation, has the potential to improve that communication by providing your customers with a conceptual or practical demonstration of your design. Inventor Studio, a rendering and animation environment, is a visualization tool built into Inventor's assembly and part environments.

With Inventor Studio, you can create and apply surface styles that enhance the realism of your components and create lighting styles that draw attention to specific aspects of your design. Inventor Studio comes with many surface styles and a modest ...