{"id":122341,"date":"2016-12-03T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-cati-marketing.pantheonsite.io\/solidworks-photoview-360-rendering-options-what-do-they-do\/"},"modified":"2022-06-22T10:01:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T14:01:59","slug":"solidworks-photoview-360-rendering-options-what-do-they-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cati.com\/?p=122341","title":{"rendered":"SOLIDWORKS: PhotoView 360 Rendering Options &#8211; What Do They Do??"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>PhotoView 360 Rendering Options<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA picture is worth a thousand words\u201d is a well-known adage. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cati.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/solidworks-2016-whats-new-photoview-360-sw2016\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PhotoView 360<\/a> allows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cati.com\/solidworks-promotions\/\">SOLIDWORKS<\/a> users to create photo-realistic renderings of designs before they have even been prototyped. These images can then be used for marketing purposes. There are a lot of variables that can go into creating renderings, that unless you are into photography, you probably don\u2019t understand. I know I didn\u2019t when I first started doing renderings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/SOLIDWORKS-1480456472905.png\" alt=\"SOLIDWORKS\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/SOLIDWORKS-1480456472905-1.png\" alt=\"SOLIDWORKS\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>First, is the picture size. There are set aspect ratios to choose from, or you can create your own. Next we choose <em>picture format type<\/em> and <em>render quality<\/em>. I keep the Preview render quality at \u201cGood\u201d, which is the lowest quality. This allows for faster previews. Next is <em>Gamma<\/em>, which by default is set to 1.6. This is directly associated with brightness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/SOLIDWORKS-1480456472905.jpg\" alt=\"SOLIDWORKS\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gamma set to 1.6<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/SOLIDWORKS-1480456472905-1.jpg\" alt=\"SOLIDWORKS\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gamma set to 0.5<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/SOLIDWORKS-1480456472905-2.jpg\" alt=\"SOLIDWORKS\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gamma set to 2.5<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Bloom<\/em> is next, it creates fringes of light extending from bright light sources. Bloom setpoint sets the threshold point, for example a bloom setpoing of 50 applies bloom to anything with a white level above 50%. Bloom extent is the amount of bloom.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/SOLIDWORKS-1480456472905-3.jpg\" alt=\"SOLIDWORKS\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/SOLIDWORKS-1480456472905-4.jpg\" alt=\"SOLIDWORKS\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Next we can choose to use <em>Contour<\/em> or <em>Cartoon Rendering<\/em>. With Contour rendering we have two options, Render Only with Contours and Render Contours and the Solid Model.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/SOLIDWORKS-1480456472905-5.jpg\" alt=\"SOLIDWORKS\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/SOLIDWORKS-1480456472905-6.jpg\" alt=\"SOLIDWORKS\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With Cartoon rendering, we have three options: Render only with cartoon edges, Render with cartoon shading, and Render with cartoon edges and shading.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/SOLIDWORKS-1480456472905-7.jpg\" alt=\"SOLIDWORKS\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/SOLIDWORKS-1480456472905-8.jpg\" alt=\"SOLIDWORKS\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/SOLIDWORKS-1480456472905-9.jpg\" alt=\"SOLIDWORKS\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Next, we have <em>Direct Caustics<\/em>. This is useful whenever light is going through a diffuse surface like light patterns underwater and focusing light from a diamond. Caustic amount sets the number of photons used in the scene, you can input 100,000 to 10,000,000. This is proportional; more powerful lights will receive more photons. Caustic quality controls the number of photons sampled at each pixal. Smaller values yield grainier effects while larger values creates a sharper effect. You can input 32 to 256.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The final option is to <em>utilize Network Rendering<\/em> to create your rendering faster. Renderings can take a lot of time to create and this can speed that process up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully this blog will help you to create better and more detailed renderings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chad Whitbeck<br \/>\nCATI Application Engineer<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cati.com\/\">Computer Aided Technology<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhotoView 360 Rendering Options &nbsp; \u201cA picture is worth a thousand words\u201d is a well-known adage. PhotoView 360 allows SOLIDWORKS users to create photo-realistic renderings of designs before they have even been prototyped. These images can then be used for marketing purposes. 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