https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/index.cfm?forumid=3 FuseTalk Enterprise Edition https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=19&threadid=14721 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:52:31 EST Michael Wilson 3


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Hot Rendering Add-in ]]> https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=19&threadid=14710 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:57:29 EST Michael Wilson 6
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Is this a bug? I'm not sure if I agree with this change. ]]> https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=19&threadid=14644 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:42:52 EST Chris Tellers 8
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]]> https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=19&threadid=14603 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:46:53 EST Michael Fulghum 4
The scene in particular is lit with an HDRI alone, but I've tried various other lighting configurations only to see the same "marbling" show up.

Indirect illumination is enabled and set to "High", though I've set it along with anti-aliasing to their respective highest settings and found only the slightest improvement in the artifacts. Ray tracing's been adjusted, as have shadows, as have the materials applied, as well as the Document Properties in the Assembly itself, all to no avail.

I'm officially out of tricks.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[Apologies for the "incompleteness" of the image...has to do with NDA stuff for the project I'm working on...hope it's readable] ]]> https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=19&threadid=14583 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:18:10 EST Michael Hess 5
I am using PhotoWorks in SW2007 for a shadow study of a moving assembly. I need to determine where the limits of the "single point light" shadow fall on the floor as the assembly moves. I cannot figure out how I can have the light move with the assembly. Consider a swing arm lamp with a bulb in the head. As the lamp moves about, the shadow changes.

My work around is to create a 3d point in the assembly for the position of the light, set an angle mate, drive the mate (which moves the point), get XYZ dimensions of point, enter dimensions to light position, then render. Drive the mate again, remeasure XYZ point, reenter dimensions, then render. Repeat through all your angles. (Determining the position of the eventual shadow is another workaround ...)

Unlike the lamp, my light goes through just a circular arc. It would be nice to have an overall parameter (say "angle" defined in an equation). You change "angle" and that moves the assembly and also determines the position of the light.

Is there any way to enter anything except a dimension into the "Light Position?" Can this be handled with a macro or some other technique to make this somewhat easier? I have to go through several defined angles and a few positions for the light source, and doing all these steps prior to the render is cumbersome and error prone.

Thank You for any Pointers,
Mike

Michael Hess, CSWP
SW2007 sp5.0
SW2008 sp3.1

]]> https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=19&threadid=14578 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:31:28 EST Rob Rodriguez 3
Before you leave download the model for the September contest and get started on your images. The September contest will have a bit of a twist. In the past you had to use PhotoWorks to create your image. For September you'll have the option to use either PhotoWorks or PhotoView 360.
Good luck.

www.robrodriguezblog.com ]]> https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=19&threadid=14562 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:05:12 EST Matt Morton 7
I am having some issues with the render to file option in photoworks. Sometimes (but not all the time), large chunks of the resulting image after rendering to a file show up as black blocks. It seems as if photoworks quit rendering before the file was finished. And the last time I did this, almost the entire picture was a black block. Usually I can close and reopen the file and it will let me do at least one render to file before it starts screwing up again. Has anybody seen this issue? It is getting rather annoying.

On a side note, does anyone know how solidworks picks the render window orientation when rendering to file? You would think that it would center what you seen in model space on your monitor in the render window, but that is never the case. And half the time a shadow or part of the model is outside the render window and I only see this after I complete the render. Is there a way to preview the render to file window or something before spending a long time going through a high quality render?

Thanks for everyone's help on this!

]]> https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=19&threadid=14212 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:06:08 EST Andy Chase 5
I do not have a realview compatible graphics card on this machine but have on the other CAD unit which is running 2008.

Find atttached the rendered image and the normal model. ]]> https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=19&threadid=14168 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:10:13 EST Adrian Abordo 2
I've got a domed surface which is an orange LED lamp. Under Appearances, I chose "Amber LED" for this feature. Under Illumination, I made it a light source. As you can see in the attached picture, it is emitting orange light, but the domed surface itself is quite dark. Anybody have pointers for how to make this thing light up?

Thanks in advance! ]]> https://forum.solidworks.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=19&threadid=14103 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:23:36 EST Lee Bazalgette 3
I'm doing some rendering in SW2008 SP4 and I need help setting the scene. I dont have RealView as I'm working on a laptop - so that may not help.

Basically, I want to super-impose my assembly on a JPG background. I've set the photoworks background to be my image, but how can I preview this to get the angle etc correct?

If I set my SW veiwport background to the image then this sort of works, except that the image isn't the same size as my screen so it distorts. If I set the photoworks background to 'tiled' image it doesn't distort but I can't set the viewing angle without some magic.

Finally, I'd really like to use a camera view, but I've found that when I'm setting the camera it distorts the background image so it make's it nearly impossible to set up the viewing angle!

Any help much appreciated!
Lee ]]>