With the right setup, you can create high quality photo realistic renderings in Photoview 360. We’ve just launched a new training section on Photoview 360 that will take beginner to expert in creating SolidWorks renderings, and over the next few weeks, we’ll be adding several more hours of content to the section. We’ll cover everything… Read more »
Posts Categorized: PhotoView 360
What quality should you be rendering in with Photoview 360?
You would think that simply cranking up the render quality, in Photoview 360, would be the best option for a beautiful render. This can not only be time consuming, but unnecessary as well. Typically your SolidWorks renderings will have the best balance of quality and time of render on either the “better” or “best” setting…. Read more »
Customize your Photoview Background with Imported HDR Images
If the HDR image above looks a little weird to you, it’s because it isn’t really meant to be viewed as a 2D image. When working with Realview turned on in SolidWorks or Photoview added in, you may have noticed the environmental reflections you can see coming off your model, like the picture below. Through… Read more »
That sinking feeling: fixing a cut off Photoview Render
Usually Photoview 360 is relatively good about setting the floor correctly. Once in a while the floor offset needs to be changed to fix a cut off model, like the one in the picture above. The issue in this case is SolidWorks isn’t finding the right point to set the floor, so it has to… Read more »
Photoview 360: No Need to be Camera Shy
You probably do it all the time; I know I do. You set up the perfect view, for a render, in Photoview 360 and create a render, only to have to make a small change to the model for a new render. You then go back and spend a few minutes trying to recreate the… Read more »
Photoview 360: Creating a Transparent PNG
SolidWorks should have added an option to output an image with a transparent background, in Photoview 360. At least Photoview creates an alpha channel that can be saved out along with the colored image. This allows you, if you have Photoshop or a similarly equipped image editing program, to manually remove out the background. This… Read more »