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by Ascent -. Center for Technical Knowledge (Author)
The AutoCAD(R) Showcase(R) 2017 (R1) Fundamentals student guide instructs students in how to use the visualization and presentation tools in the Autodesk(R) Showcase(R) software to create compelling presentations of 3D CAD data. In the practice- intensive curriculum, students acquire the knowledge required to progress from importing data for use in a scene, preparing it for presentation, and publishing it as an image or movie or in a web presentation format.
Topics Covered
- Overview of the Autodesk Showcase interface and workflow
- Importing Models
- Opening scenes
- Adjusting surface normal
- Selecting and transforming objects
- Assigning visual styles to enhance a scene
- Setting and manipulating rendering styles
- Adding lighting and shadow environments
- Adding accent lights to a scene
- Adding materials to objects in a scene
- Creating and manipulating design alternatives
- Creating and manipulating cross-sections
- Creating and manipulating Shots
- Creating and manipulating Behaviors
- Creating a Storyboard to present a scene
- Using the Pointer Tool to focus attention on a specific area
- Compare Scenes by placing two scenes side-by-side
- Publishing images, movies, and web presentations
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this guide.
Author Biography
ASCENT develops and produces a wide range of courseware offerings, knowledge products, and courseware for the industry's leading engineering software tools from Autodesk, Dassault Systèmes, and PTC. ASCENT's team is comprised of courseware developers, engineers, instructional designers, architects, and technical writers who work together to create training solutions that work for our clients. Our curriculum group specializes in the creation of blended education programs that incorporate the best of expert-led and technology-based training offerings to create the most effective course content and ensure that users achieve maximum productivity from their chosen engineering tools. We also work to meet our client's needs by offering different levels of customization for classroom-training curriculum.
