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...
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.… Read more...
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 be adjusted manually.… Read more...
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.… Read more...
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.… Read more...