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SolidWorks + Modo + Splash Kit

 
Often times when creating rendered images for marketing or promotion purposes you’ll need to use a variety of tools to reach an end result.  It would be great if you were able to simply set up something in PhotoView 360 or PhotoWorks, process the image and it would be complete but that is rarely the [...]

Modo SP3 Supports SolidWorks 2010 Files

Service pack 3 for Modo was released on January 26th.  If you’re a SolidWorks / Modo user this is good news because as of SP 3 Modo now supports the SolidWorks 2010 file format.  You’ll also notice the SolidWorks importer now converts SolidWorks/PV360 appearances and decals better.  Now, if we could only convince SolidWorks we [...]

Is It 2010 Already!

I’ve been absent here for a while.  Reason being I’ve been completely swamped with work and really just haven’t had time to post.  I’m currently working on an animation about 1 minute 30 seconds in length and created entirely with SolidWorks Motion and PhotoWorks.  This fully rendered animation is approximately 1150 images (frames) and will [...]

PhotoView 360 2010 Speculation

If you’ve been part of the SolidWorks community for a while you know spring is beta testing season and this means SolidWorks 2010 beta isn’t far away.  My real interest in beta testing this year is to find out what new functionality has been added to PhotoView 360.  The list of enhancements I’d like to see [...]

Thoughts on Modo?

The partner pavilion at SolidWorks World is packed with SolidWorks partner products for a variety of uses.  This year the big draw for me was Luxology.  As you probably know the results of the Luxology and SolidWorks partnerhip appeared in the SolidWorks 2009 release as PhotoView 360.  This partnership is now also bringing Modo users [...]

SolidWorks to Modo

All the way back in August I spilled the beans about SolidWorks new rendering software included with SolidWorks 2009, PhotoView 360.  PhotoView 360 is a partnership between Luxology and SolidWorks and is based on the Luxology nexus rendering engine.  Luxology’s flagship product is Modo, an advanced polygonal and subdivision surface modeler with integrated paint, rendering and [...]