Inventor 2017 – Presentations 101 By Jerry Berns The Presentation environment in Inventor saw some major changes this year. Find out what you need to know to take advantage of the new storyboards and timelines in your next project. Considering all the enhancements to Autodesk Inventor 2017, the Presentation environment certainly had the most significant transformation. Storyboards and Timelines have replaced the old Browser views and Animate command. A new browser and several display commands were also introduced. When you create a new presentation in Inventor 2017, you will notice the design workflow has changed – you are immediately prompted for the assembly file and view representation to document. This eliminates the Create View step that was required in previous versions. You can still create additional scenes, but with an added benefit—you Storyboards, as borrowed from the entertainment can document multiple assemblies in a single industry, are the layouts of directions and shots presentation. This could be an advantage for that are used to visually organize a movie. This is some users, but I would still recommend creating well suited to presentations in which you control a presentation for each assembly, because file which actors (components) perform when (tweaks). management would likely be easier. As you tweak components, actions are added So once your model is loaded, what next? to the timeline. You can later edit the order and duration of the tweaks by manipulating them on the Disassemble it using the familiar Tweak Components command. It, too, has had Storyboard timeline. enhancements which I’ll talk more about later. As www.cadlearning.com 19