I see Visualize Professional handles configurations but Standard does not. We are using Standard.
Question: My assembly has 4 configurations.
How to quickly render each one, with exact same angle and camera angle. (Other than using the 'default' angle it imports as).
I think I will have to have 4 separate Visualize projects for each configuration.
How to set same camera angles for all 4 projects?
Alternatively, I've tried checking the "Monitor File" box on import so that when I change configs in SW it would just change in Visualize. That's working now (see below).
My only guess is to change the default camera, as shown in the pic attached. Then create 4 projects, save SolidWorks assembly as one config, import into Visualize, render it. Create new project, change config in SW, save it, import again (still at 'default' camera), etc etc.
But what if you want two or three camera angles of each?
Is there an better/easier way?
Actually the live linking is working now. In the SW model I changed the configuration. As soon as I save it in SolidWorks, I get a message in Visualize that says "The following original source data for this project has been modified. Do you want to re-import?"
I click yes. Wait a minute. And it shows the new configuration, at the same camera angle.
(Note: it only updates the configuration. When I change the material inside SW, it does not get updated in Visualize. Need to set all materials in SW first, then do this. Also, I guess it means using SolidWorks materials, instead of Visualize ones, to be really fast. Otherwise you're applying the same materials four times in the four Visualize projects.)
That will work for now, unless someone else has another good method