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PhotoWorks Product Overview

PhotoWorks Product Overview

PhotoWorks Product Overview

Product catalog summary
Overview: PhotoWorks is a rendering software integrated with SolidWorks, designed to create photorealistic images from 3D CAD models. It enhances presentations and proposals by providing advanced visual effects and ease of use.
Key Features:
  • Ease of Use: PhotoWorks Studio offers predefined scenes with background and lighting options, allowing quick rendering of images.
  • Advanced Visual Effects: Built on the mental ray engine, it includes a library of materials, textures, and user-defined lighting and shadows.
  • Materials: Users can choose from a wide selection of materials, modify properties, and apply them to parts or faces.
  • Decals: Custom labels or artwork can be applied to products, with interactive sizing and positioning.
  • SolidWorks Integration: Full support for SolidWorks models, including realistic camera views and depth of field.
  • Rendering Controls: Options include indirect illumination, caustics, global illumination, and adaptive antialiasing for enhanced realism.
  • Image Output: Rendered images can be output to a window, file, or printer in various formats.
Benefits:
  • Reduces prototyping costs and time-to-market by allowing design visualization without physical mock-ups.
  • Speeds up review cycles and aids in marketing product concepts before manufacturing.
Contact Information: SolidWorks provides regional contact details for Europe, Asia/Pacific, and Latin America, along with a general contact for the US.
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PhotoWorks Product Overview-1

PRODUCT INFORMATION PHOTOREALISTIC RENDERING SOFTWARE, FULLY INTEGRATED WITH SOLIDWORKS 3D MECHANICAL CAD SOFTWARE Generate compelling images for presentations and proposals. Why settle for standardshaded views of your parts and assemblies when you could be communicating design concepts more powerfully with photorealistic images? Enjoy unmatched ease-of-use. PhotoWorks Studio lets you quickly and easily create photorealistic images. Select from five predefined scenes complete with background and lighting,designate the desired image quality and brightness, and then render your image. Create advanced visual effects. Generate photorealistic images of 3D models easilyusing commands available on the PhotoWorks menu and toolbar. PhotoWorks software is built on mental ray > , the leading high-performance rendering engine. The softwareincludes an extensive library of materials and textures, user-defined lighting and shadows, background scenery, and more. Select appropriate material characteristics for yourSolidWorks parts and assemblies. Preview a variety of materials and settings beforeapplying them to the model. Set the background, lighting, and scenery conditions. Combine with SolidWorks Animator to create photorealistic rendered animations. Reduce prototyping costs and cut time-to-market. PhotoWorks release 2 lets you demon-strate how your design will look without expensive mock-ups, prototypes, or studio photo sessions. Speed review cycles, market product concepts before manufacturing evenbegins, create images for sales and service documentation, and reduce time-to-market. > Communicate design concepts more powerfully using photorealistic images and advanced effects available in PhotoWorks. Materials > Image courtesy of DiMonte Group ΕChoose materials from a wide selection of built-in libraries of predefined metals,woods, stones, plastics, and other textured material types.Define or modify existing material properties, including surface color, reflectance,transparency, roughness, and texture-mapping.ՕApply materials to entire parts, features, or individual faces, allowing multiple assign-mentsper part.Preview material, scenery, and light selection to reduce rendering time.ՕSelect displacement properties to give materials an irregular or indented appearance. Decals Create and apply custom labels or artwork to products and packaging.ՕInteractively size, position, and rotate individual decals.Overlay multiple decals onto any SolidWorks part, feature, or face. > Create images comparable to actual photo-graphs by adjusting camera settings such asperspective, depth of field, and field of view. SolidWorks Integration ՕTake advantage of full support for SolidWorks models, including section views andexploded assemblies.Create realistic camera views complete with depth of field, perspective, and field of view. >

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PhotoWorks Product Overview-2

WWW.SOLIDWORKS.COM Local language support Lights and shadows > Chinese Օ > Japanese Control shadows easily, including those showing through transparent surfaces.ՕCreate realistic shafts of light with fog lighting. > Czech Օ > Korean > English Օ > Polish > French Օ > Russian Background/scenery > German Օ > Spanish Create photo studio-style backdrops to enhance the display of SolidWorks parts andassemblies.ՕPreview, resize, and reposition background scenery.Apply predefined scenes, including lights, backgrounds, and scenery.ՕSimulate environments in which products will be used, such as under a...

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