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SolidWorks has released a new Step By Step Guide, “Creating Animations with SolidWorks“.  This guide is the replacement for the Motion Manager Step By Step Guide and has seen a lot of enhancements.  At 18 chapters and 516 pages it’s almost double the size of the old guide.  before we talk about the new guide [...]

 
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 [...]

Last fall SolidWorks issued this announcement about the retirement of PhotoWorks and the future of PhotoView 360. 
Beginning with the release of SolidWorks 2011, PhotoView 360 will now be the standard photorealistic rendering solution for all SolidWorks software versions moving forward.
PhotoWorks will no longer be available. With the launch of SolidWorks 2011, SolidWorks software and PhotoView 360 will [...]

It will be a while before SolidWorks makes the presentations from SolidWorks World 2010 available for download.  Luckily for you I’m able to make four of those presenations available now. 
Two of the presentation were created by me. 

PhotoView 360: instant images
Find out how easy photorealistic rendering can be with PhotoView 360. In this session, attendees learn how [...]

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 introduces a lot of new functionality that makes it a more capable product and moves it closer to replacing PhotoWorks in the 2011 release.  I’ve created eight tutorial videos in cooperation with SolidWorks to explain and expose users to this new functionality.  The videos will be appearing at the SolidWorks Gallery  website along with [...]

PhotoView 360 2010 introduces a lot of new functionality that makes it a more capable product and moves it closer to replacing PhotoWorks in the 2011 release.  I’ve created eight tutorial videos in cooperation with SolidWorks to explain and expose users to this new functionality.  The videos will be appearing at the SolidWorks Gallery  website along with [...]

PhotoView 360 2010 introduces a lot of new functionality that makes it a more capable product and moves it closer to replacing PhotoWorks in the 2011 release.  I’ve created eight tutorial videos in cooperation with SolidWorks to explain and expose users to this new functionality.  The videos will be appearing at the SolidWorks Gallery  website along with [...]

PhotoView 360 2010 introduces a lot of new functionality that makes it a more capable product and moves it closer to replacing PhotoWorks in the 2011 release.  I’ve created eight tutorial videos in cooperation with SolidWorks to explain and expose users to this new functionality.  The videos will be appearing at the SolidWorks Gallery  website along with [...]