2009
Table Of Contents
- Autodesk NavisWorks Simulate 2009
- Contents
- Part 1. Welcome to Autodesk NavisWorks Simulate 2009
- Part 2. Installation
- Chapter 3. Quick Start to Stand-Alone Installation
- Chapter 4. Move to NavisWorks from a Previous Release
- Chapter 5. Install NavisWorks for an Individual User
- Chapter 6. Install NavisWorks for Multiple Users
- Quick Start to Network Installation
- System Requirements for a Deployment
- Creating Network Deployments
- Preliminary Tasks for a Network Deployment
- Use the Installation Wizard to Set Up a Deployment
- Start the Deployment Process
- Create a Deployment
- Enter Product and User Information
- Specify Log File Locations
- What Is Silent Mode?
- Customer Involvement Program (CIP)
- Select a License Type (optional)
- Select the Installation Type (optional)
- Final Review and Complete Setup
- Register the Product
- Modify a Deployment (optional)
- Point Users to the Administrative Image
- Uninstall the Program
- Chapter 7. Installation Troubleshooting
- What are the minimum system requirements?
- How can I check my graphics card driver to see if it needs to be updated?
- What is the difference between a stand-alone license and a network license?
- What is the benefit to using a network licensed version of the software?
- When performing a Typical installation, what gets installed?
- Where are my product manuals?
- Deployment Issues
- Networking Issues
- Maintenance Issues
- Part 3. Basic NavisWorks Functionality
- Chapter 8. Overview
- Chapter 9. File Management
- Chapter 10. Converting Files
- File Readers
- NWF Files
- NWD Files
- NWC Files
- DWG and DXF Files
- DWF Files
- Bentley AutoPLANT Files
- 3DS Files
- DGN and PRP Files
- MAN Files
- PDS Files
- IGES Files
- STEP Files
- Inventor Files
- VRML world files
- Riegl Scan Files
- Faro Scan Files
- Leica Scan Files
- Z+F Scan Files
- ASCII Laser Scan Files
- STL Stereolithography files
- AVEVA Review RVM and RVS files
- IFC files
- Sketchup SKP files
- File Exporters
- CAD Previewing
- File Readers
- Chapter 11. Publishing
- Chapter 12. Navigating
- Chapter 13. Selecting Items
- Chapter 14. Finding
- Chapter 15. Editing
- Chapter 16. Display Modes
- Chapter 17. Viewpoints
- Chapter 18. Sectioning
- Chapter 19. Animation
- Chapter 20. Reviewing
- Chapter 21. Object Manipulation
- Chapter 22. Interface
- Chapter 23. Tools
- Chapter 24. Options
- Chapter 25. DataTools
- Chapter 26. Getting Help
- Part 4. Using Presenter
- Part 5. Object Animation
- Part 6. Using TimeLiner
- Glossary
- Index
Chapter 28. Rendering Scenes
While the OpenGL rendering in the main navigation window is adequate for interactive walkthrough and
previewing renders, you will no doubt want to render your scenes and animations with full photorealistic
rendering at some point. You can render directly into the main window by simply clicking on the Render
button at the bottom of the Presenter window at any time.
Setting Up And Rendering A Scene
1. Click Tools > Presenter on the menu bar to open the Presenter window.
2. Drag and drop materials onto items in the model.
You can use the pre-defined materials, or create your own from the templates in the Materials tab
(see Chapter 29, Presenter Materials for more details on how to do this).
Or
Use the Rules tab to set up rules which define project-wide material application (see Chapter 35,
Presenter Rules for more details on this).
3. Use the Texture Space tab to more accurately map materials onto items in the scene (see
Chapter 34, Texture Space for more details on this).
4. Set up additional lighting using the Lighting tab (see Chapter 30, Presenter Lighting for more details
on how to do this).
5. Background and foreground effects can be added to the scene with the Effects tab (see Chapter 32,
Rendering Effects for more details on these).
6. Use the Rendering tab to select a rendering style for the render (see Chapter 33, Rendering Styles
for more details on these).
7. At any point, you can click on the Render button to start NavisWorks Presenter rendering the scene
in the main navigation window. The rendering process can be stopped at any point by clicking on the
Stop button.
8. Click on the Clear button to clear the render in the main navigation window and return to an OpenGL
interactive view.
Exporting Rendered Output
Scenes rendered in Presenter can be exported out as images, so they can be used in presentations, on
websites, in print and so on.
You can also export animated AVI presentations and instructional movies, in which the animated objects
move in photo-realistically rendered scenes.
Exporting a rendered image
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