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5. Click the Save button, and then pick Done to close the dialog.
6. Start the Render Image tool.
7. Set your Render Type back to Realistic, set Lighting Style to Table
Top, and set Scene Style to Inventor NER - White.
8. Start the rendering, and watch the image in Figure 9.42 generate.
FIGURE 9.42 A new scene style can give an image character.
9. Close the Render Output window and the Render Image dialog.
The last major thing you can modify is the surface of the model you're rendering.
Surface Styles
Along with lighting, scene, and render styles, Inventor offers surface styles.
Surface styles typically carry the same name as a color that you can select for
your part from the Inventor Standard toolbar list. The difference is that you can
modify the surface style to carry additional information and properties that con-
trol how the surface appears in the rendering. You can give a surface different
refl ection levels, change its opacity, apply a different texture, and even use a bump
map to make the rendered version of the part appear to have an uneven surface
texture.
In this introduction to Inventor Studio, we won't explore the full capabilities
of surface styles. But one brief exercise will, I hope, pique your interest in learn-
ing more about them.