New to Inspire Studio? Learn the basics here.
Change the view in the modeling window using the mouse or view controls.
Discover new features and enhancements.
Learn about Inspire Studio, the workspace, and the system requirements.
Learn how to import geometry and export results.
Review techniques for selecting and editing objects.
The software saves versions of your objects as you create them, enabling you to return to an earlier stage of an object, and modify or reuse the object from that stage.
The view controls are in the bottom left of each modeling view.
Configure a single view, configure the multiview layout, and change the view detail.
Pan, zoom, and orbit in the 2D orthographic views and the 3D perspective view.
Show, hide, and isolate objects in the modeling window.
By adding cameras to your scene and customizing their position, angle, rendering image resolution, and rendering image quality, you can view and render your models from multiple perspectives and create a more distinctive scene.
When displaying 3D objects on a 2D plane, you can use perspective projection or orthographic projection.
Select a display mode for the scene.
Adjust the view detail for the Shaded and Real-time display modes and final rendering. You can also adjust the ambient occlusion for the Shaded display mode, as well as ambient occlusion and global illumination for the Real-time display mode.
The application has four different grids, each with successively larger spacing. Grids are drawing aids used to place and align points and objects with precision. They do not appear in rendered images.
Fit selected objects or points in the modeling window.
Create and view 2D section planes of your model. This function is particularly useful when you want to see inside a model.
Capture an image of a model. The background is white by default, but you can make it colored or transparent. Arrows on curves are automatically turned off.
Translate, rotate, and scale objects using the Move tool. These tasks can be accomplished with greater precision by using grids and snaps.
Browse and organize the objects, layers, lights, materials, and drawings in your scene using the Model Browser.
Change the default units and measure geometry features.
Inspire Studio has four different tool belts to help you quickly access the tools you need for 3D modeling, sketching, creating PolyNURBS, and rendering. You can use the tool belts with the default configuration of tools or you can customize the tool belts by adding and removing tools as required.
Modify the workspace display, default keyboard shortcuts, and other settings.
Start using Inspire Studio with our interactive tutorials.
Create and edit a 2D sketch curve. A sketch curve is any "wire" entity such as a line, rectangle, circle, or arc.
Create and edit 3D curves by extending, rebuilding, intersecting, splitting, and projecting the shapes.
Create and edit 3D surfaces and solids by creating primitives or editing existing curves and surfaces.
Create polygonal surfaces that can easily be converted into NURBS surfaces. PolyNURBS combines the ease and simplicity of polygonal modeling with the precision and flexibility of NURBS, allowing you to quickly create free-form solid geometry that is smooth and continuous.
Create new objects by manipulating and modifying source objects.
Quickly modify objects that are not a part of Construction History.
Deform one or more objects with respect to an axis.
Measure dimensions, analyze curvature, check for continuity and watertightness, analyze the draft, detect undercuts, and create design iterations on the fly.
Dimension a line, edge, bounding box, angle, and radius/diameter in order to create objects which must fit predefined dimensions. You can also insert a general annotation to label the parts of your model.
Create detailed 2D drawings of the selected parts of a complex 3D model from multiple perspectives.
Adjust the materials, environment, and properties of objects in the scene to create a photorealistic image.
In Inspire Studio you can animate an object or group and the camera. There are two methods of animation: key frame animation and path animation.
Create a draw die in Inspire Studio that you can export to Inspire Form to perform a stamping simulation.
You can use C++ and Python to add custom operations and file formats.
Learn keyboard shortcuts and mouse controls for common operations.