Inventor offers simple, easy to use visualization effects to enable realistic looking models in the viewport. The effects available depend on the capabilities of your graphics hardware, operating system, and the Inventor graphics hardware setting in the Application Options 
Hardware tab.
The following illustrates the visual effects you can experience at the various Autodesk Feature Levels, and the table below specifies the minimum system requirements for each level.
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| Graphics HW Setting |
Quality |
Performance |
Performance |
Performance |
Compatibility |
| Autodesk Feature Level | Advanced 4_1 | Full 3_1 | Medium 3_0 | Basic 2_0 | Legacy |
| Graphics Capability | DirectX 10.1 Shader Model 4.0 |
DirectX 9 Shader Model 3.1 |
DirectX 9 Shader Model 3.0 |
DirectX 9 Shader Model 2.0 |
DirectX 9 Fixed function pipeline |
| Graphics HW Memory | 512 MB (1 GB recommended) | 512 MB | 512 MB | 256 MB | 128 MB |
| Graphics HW Generation | 2008 or later | 2005 or later | 2005 or later | 2003 or later | 1998 or later |
You can query your system to find your Autodesk Feature Level in two different ways:
- Go to Application Options | Hardware | Diagnostics. The dialog will display the Autodesk Feature Level when using either the "Performance" or "Quality" settings on the Hardware Tab.
- Run the standalone AdskDiagOutput tool from a Command Prompt. It will report the Autodesk Feature Level of your system in addition to other system and graphics hardware related information.
The following table indicates which visual effects are supported by each of the Autodesk feature levels.
| Visual Effect | Advanced 4_1 | Full 3_1 | Medium 3_0 | Basic 2_0 | Legacy |
| Antialiased display (jaggy-free) | X | ||||
| Image Based Lighting (IBL) | X | X | |||
| Ambient Shadows | X | X | |||
| Object Shadows | X | X | X | ||
| Realistic Visual Style | X | X | X | ||
| Bump Mapping | X | X | X | ||
| Watercolor Visual Style | X | X | X | ||
| Environment Display | X | X | X | X | |
| Environment Reflections | X | X | X | X | |
| Ground Reflections | X | X | X | X | |
| Ground Shadows | X | X | X | ||
| Illustration Visual Style | X | X | X | X | |
| Monochrome Visual Style | X | X | X | X |