Is there anyway to have a photoworks image placed into a
drawing sheet ?
If you assign photoworks colous to a model, and have the options box to show photoworks colours in solidworks when you insert the shaded view into a drawing it appears dark.
Does this mean i have to colour the part both for photoworks (if i want a photorealistic image) and with solidworks colours if i want to insert a fairly accurate coloured representation of the model in a drawing sheet ?
Does anyone know of another way to get a photoworks image into a drawing sheet ?
How do other people get around this problem ? Say you have a car engine with 100 parts, detailed in drawing sheets with shaded images. If you want a photorealisic image do you have to re-colour all the 100 parts to get the realistic image ? I understand photoworks can calculate light rays and all that and so is a 'different' package but whats the point in real view then ? Why cant real view and photoworks work in harmony ?
Its nice to have photoworks to produce flashy images, but if you have to colour the parts one way to get manufacturing drawings, then another way to get brochure drawings it seems to me to bit of a ball ache.
To summarise, the main question i want to know is can i get photoworks images into drawing sheets ??!
Thanks
If you assign photoworks colous to a model, and have the options box to show photoworks colours in solidworks when you insert the shaded view into a drawing it appears dark.
Does this mean i have to colour the part both for photoworks (if i want a photorealistic image) and with solidworks colours if i want to insert a fairly accurate coloured representation of the model in a drawing sheet ?
Does anyone know of another way to get a photoworks image into a drawing sheet ?
How do other people get around this problem ? Say you have a car engine with 100 parts, detailed in drawing sheets with shaded images. If you want a photorealisic image do you have to re-colour all the 100 parts to get the realistic image ? I understand photoworks can calculate light rays and all that and so is a 'different' package but whats the point in real view then ? Why cant real view and photoworks work in harmony ?
Its nice to have photoworks to produce flashy images, but if you have to colour the parts one way to get manufacturing drawings, then another way to get brochure drawings it seems to me to bit of a ball ache.
To summarise, the main question i want to know is can i get photoworks images into drawing sheets ??!
Thanks
If you're showing the PW materials in the SW graphics window (have the option checked to do so) then you should see those PW materials in a shaded drawing view. If this are really dark you may have to adjust your lighting in SW to brighten up the shaded drawing view.
As has been already said, you can copy/paste a PW images (jpg, tiff, etc) into your drawing.
Solidworks 2008 does, however support raster images in drawings now so you have a lot better control over the size and appearence of rendered images.
I've put in an enhancement request for Solidworks to have the option of rendering the viewports to the printer or export file. AutoCAD's had it for four releases now.
Sorry for joining in so late on this topic but I'm glad to seethat other folks want to print realview from drawings. It's strangethat from an assembly you can print realveiw but of course withdrawings you can't, thanks John for the enhancement request.
Glen
Carmelo,
We heard back from SolidWorks on your decal issue, and they said that this
fault has been corrected in SW2008 SP02, which will be available late
December / early Janauary. They also tested your drawing in an early build
of SP2, and can confirm that the fix works with your drawing.
Thank you,
Seems like the move to SP2 will be quick!