2.07.2008

Photorealistic Renderings using Solidworks Models

SolidWorks is one of the main product design solid modellers. It has a built in render engine called PhotoWorks. With the release of PhotoWorks 2, rendering within SolidWorks has become more realistic and easier. In a lot of cases PhotoWorks will be the most convenient way to render your model, because you don't have to leave SolidWorks. However, sometimes you will find the need to make renders that are more realistic (or even photo-realistic), and PhotoWorks is not sufficient anymore. This is when you might consider using an external program for rendering. In this how-to, \will describe how to do this using Blender with YafRay.

Both programs are open-source software, which means you can download them for free:




http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Import_and_Render_a_SolidWorks_Model

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