SOLIDWORKS Visualize
How to create professional photo-quality, images, animations, and other 3D content
There are a number of different ways to render an image in SOLIDWORKS. The option you choose will depend on which SOLIDWORKS version you have and which graphics card you are using. To get started, we’ll start with the options available in SOLIDWORKS Standard and move our way up to see what is available for…
When a 3D model is imported into SOLIDWORKS Visualize, the resolution that we see in a preview within the viewport is the resolution of the image that is rendered as an output. This resolution can be changed as required, following the steps below: Import the 3D model into SOLIDWORKS Visualize Now Go to Tools drop-down…
SOLIDWORKS Visualize installs with a large library of appearance files that you can apply to your models, but you can also create Custom Appearance files and save them in your Appearances Palette for future use. Create a Custom Appearance File Brand new appearance can be created through Appearances Palette > Click on “+” > New…
SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2018 SP3.0 onward includes an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Denoiser tool, which allows professional renderings to be made 10x faster. When the Denoiser is enabled it helps in the significant reductions in render time for production-quality images.It produces better-looking renderings with fewer passes, which takes less time. So this means 150 passes with the…
Are you experiencing a failed to obtain license error for SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard or SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard? Noticed an expiry date regarding licenses for these products? Why does this happen? If other SOLIDWORKS products still launch, or if you are using SOLIDWORKS Term Licensing, then keep reading. Otherwise, try this article on SOLIDWORKS SolidNetWork License…
Developed by the Khronos Group, glTF™ (GLTF Transmission Format) is intended to be an efficient, inter-operable file format with minimum file size and run-time processing by apps. glTF files contain information such as geometry, appearances, textures, animations, motion studies, configurations, display states, exploded views, lights, and metadata. The content that powers rich AR, VR, and…
The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) has defined a file format which describes a light’s distribution from a light source using real world measured data. These IES Photometric files, or IES Profiles, are a lighting industry standard method of diagramming the brightness and falloff of light as it exists a particular real world light fixture. It…
Traditionally, design teams have approximated the physical (optical) behavior of materials in digital tools through tedious and time-consuming manual re-creation and editing. These “hand-made” virtual representations are neither accurate nor able to be shared across the numerous design and rendering tools. AxF™ files from X-Rite are used to capture, store, edit, and communicate complex material…
Great news for AMD fans! AMD Radeon™ ProRender, a powerful physics-based rendering engine that enables creative professionals to produce stunningly photorealistic images. Built on highly efficient, high-performance Radeon Rays technology, Radeon ProRender’s complete, scalable ray tracing engine uses open industry standards to harness GPU and CPU performance for swift, impressive results. To use ProRender in…
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