ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- Basics of Visualize 2024 , i.e. the replacement for PhotoView 360.
PhotoView 360 has been removed from SolidWorks. As great as it was, it only used the CPU cores for rendering. Depending upon your graphics card, Visualize can use both CPU and GPU cores - in many cases significantly improving performance by reducing rendering wait times.
About the Diving Gel Wristwatch cover rendering. I created this around 1998/99 using SolidWorks earliest renderer known as PhotoWorks. A 1024 x 768 size version of it took around eight hours to render on a single core Pentium Pro 200Mhz w/256k cache, 128MB of RAM and an 8MB Permedia/FireGL PCI card. Since then SolidWorks has switched out the rendering engine a few times. I'm sure if I were to try and recreate this it would turn out far better in a fraction of the time. For it's day the model was considered unfathomable, and accusations from SolidWorks own applications engineers believing it was modeled in a high-end surfacing software, stating SolidWorks wasn't capable of creating such a complex shape. I designed it in under 5 minutes using a new feature for its day, i.e. the Dome feature on a hurricane shaped glyph silhouette extrusion.
Wristwatch Parasolid Binary file Link: drive.google.c...
Here is a link to my video on parsimonious graphics cards being tested with SolidWorks Visualize and RealView. • SolidWorks Visualize &...
Note: This video does not go into the details of exporting files, it demonstrates how to use the "Windows + Shift + S" keys to capture the integrated rendering image.
Your videos are amazing! Because of your lessons I was able to start with solidworks. I recently tried to put some solidworks models to Adobe Substance paiter, to make them look really good (like small scrathes, good loking materials and etc). And it was a waste of time, the process was difficuls (save solidworks as STL file than place it into MeshLab and save it as OBJ file and then place this OBJ file to Substance Painter. The big issue is - when solidworks model is complex enough (like a barbell clip) , substance painter just does not open it! you wait 30 minutes, and it slill does not open the OBJ file. Maybe you know a really great way how to make solidworks models look completelly real and good, it would be a great tutorial. God Bless you
Hi Alex, thanks for the kind words. I think you may find Visualize is a good tool if you were to watch some advanced videos from other sources. I used to be pretty decent using the old/ now removed SolidWorks-PhotoWorks and 360 add-ins. I've only recently started experimenting with Visualize. I understand it's supposed to be superior to the old PhotoWorks and 360 because it actually uses the GPU and CPU versus just the CPU speeding up rendering times, but I'm not just not very good at it yet. Admittedly I miss the old integrated rendering solutions, but things change and we all have to adapt sometime.
Kind regards
CS
I'm still using, and am addicted to PhotoView 360. 😁I really like it, but I know I have to move with the times, and at some point I'll have to start using Visualize.
How much of a change is it, moving on from PhotoView 360? Is there plenty of new stuff to learn?
Yes... I've gotten so good tweaking my workflow in PV360, sometimes rivaling my Blender renders. Too bad Dassault opted to buy Bunkspeed instead of building a truly integrated 3D rendering tool from scratch.
Im using SW 2025 on a Mac via Parallels. Got Realview working by editing the registry but sadly Visualize is a no go. Pity Photo View 360 isn't available.
Ugh... that's very disappointing that Visualize doesn't work on Mac even with parallels. Regarding this transition - Back when SoilidWorks first began in the 90's one of their selling points was that they encouraged "Gold Level" integration, i.e. 100% integrated add-ins/applications, because it's just easier to have it all in the same package. Visualize goes against that.
@ looking at some other YT vids many use keyshot and/or via blender to do their animations and rendering. Visualise will open and you have all of its functionality but it crashes the moment you try and do a render. This is on a Mac M4 Pro mini with arm windows and latest parallels. SW 2022 on my old intel Mac visualise seems to work but I never got to try it when my old Mac ssd failed. And unfortunately SW 2025 although allowing saves in earlier versions only goes back to 2023. Oh well workarounds it is then.
Solidworks Visualize is a nice tool, but it is still so much weaker than Substance Painter. Maybe I am wrong and it is possible to make nice visual presentations of your model in Visualize. For me, realview graphics mode in Solidworks gives very similar results to visualize. It would be great to make solidworks part to look completelly real
I am very sad with this feature. more time consuming
i have sw professional and its not there