Rendering

PhotoView 360: When is interference a good thing?

When you have layers of transparent materials in your model (like a glass containing water), you get a better result when rendering with PhotoView 360 if the “liquid” body interferes by a small amount with the “glass” body. Take a look at two renderings showing…

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Mint Your Own Gold Medals with SOLIDWORKS PhotoView 360

Getting your Expert Certification in SolidWorks (CSWE) can be compared to winning a Gold Medal in a top competition! There is only one very small, but somewhat important difference, though: Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corporation will not present you with an actual gold medal. Nope, no medal for you!…

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SOLIDWORKS PhotoView 360 Surface Finish Overview

PhotoView 360 Surface Finish

One of the most underutilized feature sets of PhotoView 360 is the appearance surface finish tab.  Why is it underutilized?  For a couple of reasons I think, those being: It’s found in the appearance advanced settings that some users may never activate. Most users don’t…

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SolidWorks Star Blog of the Month: RobRodriguez.com (#1 Resource for Rendering)

Blog Address: http://robrodriguez.com/wordpress/ Author: Rob Rodriguez Author’s Description of his Blog: RobRodriguez.com is a way for me to give back to the SolidWorks community in the forum of tutorials and information revolving around visualization.  Most engineers lack the experience or know how to effectively communicate their designs to the rest…

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