User Interface Enhancements

General enhancements to the Inventor user interface and graphics display.

User Interface Enhancements

A new User Interface theme is part of the enhancements for 2020. The Light Theme updates touch all aspects of the user interface, including color scheme, icons, display color or background, manipulators, and ground plane. Also, there are new graphic presets designed as alternatives for time spent adjusting display parameters.

Graphic Presets

Three new Graphic Presets provide a look and feel for working with your designs.

• High Quality - places emphasis on providing pleasing visual results utilizing a new IBL lighting style Light Theme IBL, Realistic visual style, and shadows. Best used for high visual quality in product demos or final quality ray trace renders.
• Balanced - places the emphasis on both visual display and performance. Balanced is the default setting for built-in part templates utilizing the new IBL lighting style Light Theme IBL, Shaded with edges visual style, and ambient shadows. Ideal for working with parts and small-to-modest sized assemblies.
• Performance - places emphasis on performance over visual display. Performance is the default setting for built-in assembly templates utilizing a new lighting style Light Theme, Shaded visual style, and no shadows. Best used for working with medium-to-large assemblies.

To learn more, see Graphic Presets.

Visual Refresh

Various parts of the Inventor user interface underwent a refresh to update their display.

• New Lighting Styles: Light Theme and Light Theme IBL (default).
• Icon Refresh - Inventor ribbon and browser icons are updated and refreshed to complement the new Light Theme interface.
  
• Feature Manipulators - updated colors that work with the light theme interface.
• Thread texture - updated thread texture to provide better fidelity.
• Ground Plane - updated to be compatible with the new color scheme. Added option to dynamically reduce the grid line count when zooming out. The count is restored gradually as you zoom in. The major axes are colored to match the Origin axes seen in the model triad in the lower left corner of the graphics display.
  

Property Panels

Property panel layout and buttons are enhanced.

Feature naming during creation is an An Inventor® Ideas submission.

Application Options

The changes to Application Options are listed relative to dialog box tab.

Color Tab

• New In-canvas Color Scheme: Light Theme:
  • Background Image: Light Blue Theme.png
  • Reflection Environment: studio_02.dds
  • Section Capping Plane Texture: Default - Gray
  • Various in-canvas color changes
  • Legacy styles are unchanged
• UI Theme: Amber, displays legacy amber icons in the light theme interface. Check the box, save the change, and restart Inventor to see the icons.