Let me explain
Inventor needs to either make it's elements or have clean 3Dobjects to import with clear pivot/movement lines.
For animation(we are talking industrial stuff, not Disney), I also need clean 3d objects with clear pivot/movement lines.
This the only place where these two different ops meet.
In real life, I always have two models of the same thing.
The accurate to default engineering version.
The simplified (internals removed) version for rendering/Inventor.
Once exported out of Cad, the two are separate entities.
Just to give you an idea, we did a lift in the North sea last week where the load on one of the two cranes was 99% and only 1.8m clearance...
Sweaty palm times:
Autocad is for engineering calculation.
Inventor is to check clearances, slings, wires.
Max is for pretty pictures in the brochure.
(, Sun 17 Jul 2016, 22:38, Reply)