A few Inventor award questions

[Daniel Brim]

I have a few questions from our team (we are doing the Inventor award for the first time this year).

Is there a way to save IDW files as images without a screenshot?

How do you get the disconnected assembly and bill of materials into an inventor drawing (Like team 75's submission last year (www.roboraiders.com click on design showcase))?

Is there a good tutorial out there for animation?

Is there anything else you think we should know?

[petek]

Is there a way to save IDW files as images without a screenshot?
Do a "Safe File As" and select bitmap (.bmp).

How do you get the disconnected assembly and bill of materials into an inventor drawing (Like team 75's submission last year (www.roboraiders.com click on design showcase))?
Not sure what you are referring to. Can you give the specific example on 75's submission?

Is there a good tutorial out there for animation?
http://www.sdotson.com has a whole lot of great tutorials for Inventor, including everything you will ever need to know about animation.

Is there anything else you think we should know?
If you didn't do the tutorials that came with Inventor (hit Help on the menubar and select tutorials) do it now. They will save you a bunch of time in the long run.

Good luck!

[gsensel]

Is there a good tutorial out there for animation?
There are some over in the animation froum. I haven't used them but people talk like they are good. Plus 3Dstudio Max comes with some that are all right.

[Brant Bowen]

Dissconected assemblies and Bill of Materials.... I think you are talking about exploded views and part lists in a .idw drawings? Exploded views are created by inserting assemblies in presentation files and using the explode feature. You can do an auto-explode or use tweak components and manually move the pieces around. As for the parts list you can take the presntation file.....put it into the .idw file....and somewhere on the annotation panel i beleive is the parts list function. They are not as complicated to make as they seem.....I hope this is what you were talking about....if not, let me know i can give you real specific directions on how to do this stuff or point you towards the right place (sdotson is a really good website to check out.)
These exploded views and part list things are my specialty. :cool:

[Daniel Brim]

Not sure what you are referring to. Can you give the specific example on 75's submission?

http://www.roboraiders.com/design/default.asp?lvl=4-1-3-0

Thanks for all of your help. I would try your suggestions but I don't have access to a computer with inventor at the moment.

-Daniel

[petek]

http://www.roboraiders.com/design/default.asp?lvl=4-1-3-0

Thanks for all of your help. I would try your suggestions but I don't have access to a computer with inventor at the moment.

-Daniel

Brant's right - first create the presentation of the exploded assembly, then create the .idw with the presentation as the base view.