Visualization Effects and Graphics

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 from the Inventor graphics system, and the table below shows the specific settings in use.

Graphics HW Setting

Quality

Performance

Conservative

Graphics Capability

Best visual quality mode

Antialias is On
Graphics multithreading is On
Graphics Performance Optimization is On

Fastest mode

Antialias is Off
Graphics multithreading is On
Graphics Performance Optimization is On

Slowest mode

Most stable mode
Antialias is Off
Graphics multithreading is Off
Graphics Performance Optimization is Off

If you encounter stability issues with the other settings, use this one.

You can query your system to learn more about the graphics capability:

With Inventor running, go to ToolsOptionsApplication OptionsHardware tab and click Diagnostics. A dialog will display graphics hardware information when either the "Performance" or "Quality" option is active.