Assembly to picture-files...

Try 'Save copy as' and changing file type to BMP instead of IAM. This should give you a bitmap of the assembly screen.
Hope this helps
Kurt

It was worth the try - byt it didn't improve the quality...

My last solution is to zoom far into the assembly, make screenshots and clip it toghether - but that isn't a solution I like - I'm perhaps going to do it many times

But thanks anyway -

Do the "save as" to a bmp but go to options and increase the resolution to about 2400. Makes a huge bitmap but open with an imaging package and save as jpg. Better yet, go to and download his utility for directly outputting to jpg.

the export to .jpg is an awesome tool. It will allow you to export a jpg of the screen up to ....I think the max is 8000 x 8000 pixels (it takes a while and will give you a big file) Something like 30MB. The bitmap is something like 264 MB. Play with some lower settings before you try to crank a huge image out of it. The first time I tried the high setting, my computer worked for 40 minutes.

I usually open with photoshop afterwards and resize. I think it defaults to 72 dpi making the max jpg about 120" x 120", but that will give you the resolution you are looking for. I normally change it to 266 dpi on a 20 x 20 for a nice print. There are lights, and some shadow settings in Inventor, but I have never played with them.

The other bonus with the tool is you will get the self-extracing 3D viewer....all courtesy of C Bliss.

I'll try it - thanks alot -

How to make it work?

I have Inventor7...

It is installed in:

C:\Programs\Autodesk\Inventor7

the "plugin" is installed in:

C:\Programs\Autodesk\Macros\Inventor Export File

Do I need to activate it or is it installed at the wrong location?

It is under the tools menu.

"TOOLS" ...export jpg