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Using Modo materials in PhotoView 360 2013

Question asked by Ron Bates on Oct 18, 2012
Latest reply on Jun 18, 2013 by Karl R. Pettersen

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Apologies to everyone for the delay in getting this opened up. We're now live, so you can get from the customer portal into the luxology assert sharing site and begin download and using modo materials in PhotoView 360 2013.

Watch this video for a complete walkthrough and some extra information:(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9AuLr8ns0s)

Quick steps are:

- Login to the customer portal.

- Click the "PhotoView 360 Appearances" link in the Download section

- Click the "SolidWorks Asset Sharing" site link

- Download a material asset

- Unzip to a folder

- Make sure said folder is a "custom" folder in the list of appearances (click add custom location if not)

- Drag, Drop, have fun!!

-Ron

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Deepak Gupta Oct 19, 2012 12:20 AM
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Thanks Ron, work awesome. Need some time to try it out.

It would be nice if you can post more example videos along with the sample files for better understanding and usage of this fantastic option.
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Greg Hynd Oct 19, 2012 3:42 AM
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Thanks Ron.
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monika kodikara Oct 19, 2012 4:11 AM
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Dear Ron

Thank you very much. It is useful.

Monika
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Kevin Pymm Nov 21, 2012 6:16 AM
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It looks like Luxology are currently restricting downloads to "Downloads are limited to modo 401/501/601 owners" & the Download buttons are greyed out. I went through the Customer Portal & followed all appropriate links. Not sure if this is the same for everyone else too....unless you are a Modo user of course.
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Kevin Pymm Nov 21, 2012 7:56 AM
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This looks like it might be a Firefox bug as I tried again with Internet Explorer & I am able to download the material assets OK.

Cheers
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Paul Smout May 9, 2013 9:52 AM
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Is this broken again?

The "SolidWorks Asset Sharing" link is missing.
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- Kevin Pymm @ Paul Smout on May 9, 2013 11:15 AM
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  Paul,
  
  I'm pretty sure you have to make sure you login to the SolidWorks Customer Portal for the link to be available. At the moment I can't do that, I just get an error message saying "The server you are trying to access is either busy or experiencing difficulties. Please close the Web browser, open a new browser window, and try logging in again.[11:13:18]" so I guess there is a fault somewhere.
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- Ron Bates @ Paul Smout on May 9, 2013 12:08 PM
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  There is a known issue right now with access to the share site through the customer portal. We're working on resolving it as quickly as possible.
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  - Hadleigh Murad @ Ron Bates on May 14, 2013 9:07 AM
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    Please let us know when it has been resolved.
    
    Cheers
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Ron Bates May 16, 2013 1:39 PM
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This has been resolved (again). The link should now be appearing again when you go into the customer portal.
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- Hadleigh Murad @ Ron Bates on May 17, 2013 4:13 AM
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  Great! the link works, but unfortunatly am unable to download material/s. Using Internet Explorer, can anyone else download?
  cheers in advance
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  - Kevin Pymm @ Hadleigh Murad on May 17, 2013 4:44 AM
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    Not resolved for me either.
    I can login to the Customer Portal & get to the Luxology page but when I cick on a material to download it takes me back to a SW page saying I need to sign in through Customer Portal which I did. Then when I click on link to do that I again get the error message I had a few days ago of "The server you are trying to access is either busy or experiencing difficulties. Please close the Web browser, open a new browser window, and try logging in again.[04:39:55]". I'm using Firefox & tried closing Browser & went through the process again but the same thing happened.
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    - Paul Cullen @ Kevin Pymm on May 17, 2013 5:39 AM
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      Hi All
      
      I cannot download assets from the Luxology page either, when I click on the link in the SW window that pops up it brings me directly to the share page in Mondo not the welcome page as it did before. I can look at all the assets but when I go to download an asset it wants me to created an account or log in. I am using Internet Explorer
      
      Thanks Paul
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      - Paul Cullen @ Paul Cullen on May 17, 2013 5:54 AM
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        Hi All
        
        I tried to download assets from Google Chrome but the same thing happened, I think this is a Luxology problem as the say they have changed servers and people might have a problem signing in. SolidWorks needs to work with them to get it sorted but I do not think it is SW's problem directly
        
        Thanks Paul
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Ron Bates May 17, 2013 12:34 PM
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Sorry. I jumped the gun a bit. We do confirm there is still an issue. We are working to sort it out ASAP. I'll post again when we've resolved it (and confimed it )

Ron
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Ron Bates May 17, 2013 3:30 PM
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Should be restored and working correclty again.

When clicking the link from the SW customer portal...you should first land on the PV 360 page at Luxology.com. The first sectio there will get you into the assets area, allowing you to download.

Sorry for the hangups...

Ron
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- Kevin Pymm @ Ron Bates on May 20, 2013 5:59 AM
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  Thanks Ron,
  
  I can confirm that it now seems to be working OK.
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  - Paul Cullen @ Kevin Pymm on May 20, 2013 6:58 AM
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    Hi All
    
    It is working for me now too. Thank you Ron for your swift reply to this problem.
    
    Paul
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- Hadleigh Murad @ Ron Bates on May 20, 2013 7:59 AM
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  Can also confirm this works, Thank you for all your hard work Ron!
  
  cheers!
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Carmelo Treviso Jun 14, 2013 8:38 AM
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This is a great feature to have, but using is a pain and quite a few steps. I submitted an enhancement request in regards to easier access via PV360 and it was accepted. Let's hope that in future releases these materials are one click away!
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- Karl R. Pettersen @ Carmelo Treviso on Jun 19, 2013 2:47 AM
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  Doesn't seem to be working for me. As above, I now get the error message (The server you are trying to access is either busy or experiencing difficulties. Please close the Web browser, open a new browser window, and try logging in again.[16:43:02]), although earlier I was able to get in but without the link showing. No SW installed at home though, in case it matters. Was hoping to get a head start on tomorrows day at work.
  
  In any case, I was able to put the address in manually, but without download access. Browing the materials, I wasn't able to find what I was actually looking for. Anyone know if that system allows illuminating with textures? Think lit TV screen illuminating a room while being able to display the screen image. If there is some other trick (like a custom shader) to do this in SW, that would be fine too.
  
  But yeah, those materials looks absolutely stunning, and would be nice to have all of them easily accessible.
  
  Edit: Seems to be working from work.
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