Presentations, Exploded Views, and Publishing Enhancements

Commands available in the reworked Presentations environment cover functionality available in previous versions and include several new features:

Migrate Presentations Created in Previous Versions

All information from your old presentation files is automatically migrated to a new version.

Exploded views are converted to snapshot views. All tweaks and other model and camera settings are preserved.

Animations (Task Sequences) are converted to storyboards. Tasks are converted to animation actions and added to the timeline.

Create a Presentation

You can create a presentation file based on a default or custom template. You specify the model on file creation, or you can insert the model to an existing IPN file.

A presentation file includes scenes. Each scene is based on a specific source model and set of model representations. A scene stores snapshot views and animation storyboards.

For more information, see To Create a Presentation File and Insert a Model in the Presentation.

Tweak Components

Use the Tweak Components command to move or rotate components. Tweaks are saved as actions to the animation timeline, and listed in the Tweak folder in the browser.

For more information, see To Move or Rotate Components.

Add Trail Lines for Tweaked Components

To create trail lines, on the Tweak Components minitoolbar, select a trail option from the list. All Components is selected by default.

To hide a trail, right-click a trail line, and click Hide Trail Segment Current or All. Or, in the browser, Tweak folder, right-click a component, and click Hide Trails.

Set Component Visibility and Opacity

To set component visibility, select the component, right-click, and click Visibility.

To set opacity for a component, select the component, and then on the ribbon, click Presentation tab Transform panel Opacity.

You can change the visibility and opacity setting in a snapshot view, or save the change as an action to the storyboard. To create an action, move the playhead to the desired position on the storyboard timeline first. To change the initial setting for a storyboard, move the playhead to the Scratch Zone.

Create Snapshot Views

A snapshot view stores a specific model arrangement. Snapshot views can be linked to the timeline or independent.

Snapshot views are used to create drawing views or raster images of a model.

For more information, see To Create Snapshot Views.

Create Animations

An animation consists of a sequence of actions positioned on the timeline. You can create the following types of actions: Move component, rotate component, change component visibility or opacity, and change camera position.

Animations can be published as videos.

For more information, see To Create Animations.

Change Position of Camera

Use commands on the Navigation toolbar to change the view of the model. The camera setting is not saved automatically.

To change camera position in a snapshot view, edit the snapshot view, and click Update Camera.

To save a camera position to an animation, place the playhead to the desired position on the timeline, and click Capture Camera. A camera action is added to the timeline.

Publish a Presentation

You can publish to a video file (AVI and WMV) or to a raster image (BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, and TIFF).

You set the publishing scope and other output options.

For more information, see To Publish Presentations to Videos and To Publish Presentations to Raster Images.