Guest Post/Tutorial by: Best Engineering Aids and Consultancies Pvt. Ltd. (BEACON India) Author – Mr. Jehan Kothari
Looking at jaw-dropping renders make it intimidating for any individual to create one. But do you get overwhelmed by looking at all the options that software throws at you when you open it?
Don’t worry! SOLIDWORKS Visualize understands this pain and make sure your creative journey doesn’t come to halt because of software. Let’s understand how Visualize helps you to breakdown the process of rendering. “Easy Mode” helps you to focus one step at a time.
First, this is how the screen looks when you open Visualize. SOLIDWORKS Visualize is a 3D visualization tool that creates photorealistic images, animations, and other content from CAD models. Its great power is unleashed when it is used along with SOLIDWORKS since it gives direct associativity for any updates or changes in your CAD models.
You can see many things appear like Timeline, Palette, Heads Up Display etc. This gives you enough assurance that you will not likely get stuck during render creation process. But, for beginners this may confuse where to start from.
If you go into Visualize Menu bar “View >Toggle Easy Mode” then screen looks like this.
You can see only 5 icons are visible on your graphics screen. These are not just the icons but the steps to create a render. Import is the first step, and the last step would be Render wizard. Let’s quickly break down the steps to get your first render ready!
- IMPORT:
Import, as the name suggests, allows you to bring CAD files to your graphics environment. Depending on the file type i.e native or non-native, you will get import options. “Monitor file” option keeps direct link for any updates or changes.
2. PAINT:
Once the file is imported, the next step is to apply appearances. An appearance is a set of parameters that determines the ways in which a model surface reacts and/or refracts light. These parameters are subdivided into individual channels. This is how the window looks like. The process of applying appearances is very simple. Just drag material and drop it on a part or group! Look closely at dial body. It gives you a dynamic highlight also as how part would look like before applying appearance.
Under the “library” tab, you can find various appearances which are separated by type of materials. Further, we have a cloud library from which we can download additional appearances. Once this step is done, the next step is to put your appearance-ready model under real world lighting to understand how the material interacts with light.
3. SCENES:
A scene is a set of 3D objects, including the models, lights, and camera used when rendering. You can create manual lights or use HDRIs or mixture of both. But if you are just starting out, then play with HDRIs and in easy mode only that option is available. To create manual lights, just right click in “Scenes” tab.
The software maps an HDRI onto a spherical environment that envelops models like a bubble. The HDRI radiates light into the scene according to the RGB values of each pixel in the image. This technique simulates real-world lighting even when you need wide contrast ranges. You can download various HDRIs and add them to your library very similar to Appearances.
4. CAMERA:
This one is self-explanatory. Though it offers variety of parameters, you can limit it with respect to limited ones for now. Dialog box offers you filter and ability to change brightness as well as perspective. You can also add new cameras by clicking on 4 dashed lines as shown below. The steps are simple. Orient your model, add a new camera and name it. For now, it should suffice your need.
5. RENDER:
As soon as you hit the “Render” icon will instantly start to create renders. It will create image only and extract the default render settings from render wizard.
Once you get comfortable with software. you can also create high-quality, realistic renderings in various output formats, including images, videos, and files that provide interactive web and virtual reality experiences.
If you want to choose another preset setting, then right click on “Render” icon and it will open a dialog box as shown below. Choose any of the profiles and it will start to render accordingly.
Guest Post/Tutorial by: Best Engineering Aids and Consultancies Pvt. Ltd. (BEACON India) Author – Mr. Jehan Kothari
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