More PhotoView 360 Renders

My latest project at Auer is an order for three new die designs. These tools are being built to work with three new ballistic press systems we are also doing the design and build on.

I am almost done with the designs and have quite a few of the common components already released to the shop for build. Been going through all the designs, tying up loose ends and getting the rest of the detail drawings completed and ready for final release.

We have a four day weekend for the Christmas holidays so I have brought my files home to work on over the weekend. I get pretty bored after about a day at home with not much to do. So I figured I would get some busy work done on these designs here at home.

Today I spent some time setting up one of my tool models for rendering in SolidWorks new PhotoView 360 rendering program.

On my list of things to do, is to send a request into the Luxology/SolidWorks PhotoView 360 Resources Forum for some new materials. Being in tool design there are a few materials we use all the time that are not represented. Black Oxide for fasteners is high on my list, along with some more refined appearances for machined and ground tool steels. More colors for anodized aluminums would be great to see also.

Here are the results of my rendering session this afternoon.

Cheers,

Anna

Comments

[Clement Donzel]

Hey Anna,

Really great job. The renderings look just awesome! Agree with Greg, there is some artistic talent here :-)
Do you mind if I use some of your renderings in the Asia-Pac Blog? (Gallery section and maybe a couple of other areas?)

[Mike W.]

Great work Anna! How long did it take to create the renderings on your machine? I'd love to see a nice render with one of the progressive dies.

[Steve Calvert]

Anna, those are awesome.

Steve

[Greg]

Hey Anna, these look great! You've really gone from 0-60 with the rendering in no time. Don't sell yourself short though, you have some artistic talent. Nice choice of background, nice angle on the environment and great camera angles.

Feel free to send me an email with some material requests and some images (or links) to real world samples. Let me know in more detail what you think is wrong with the anodized aluminums (too shiny? is the reflection too 'white' and not picking up enough of the base color? should there be brushed anodized? etc.)

-Greg

[Anna Wood]

Mark,

Glad you stayed with it and were able to convince the non-believers.

Yes, we do want to be able to do high quality renderings. But rendering does not pay the bills so we will not spend much time learning the tools or rendering on a regular basis.

PhotoView 360 is a product that fits the bill for all of us mechanical designers. It perfectly leverages the 3D solid model datasets and gives another way we can use them to bring value to our business.

Thanks for being the champion with PV360,

Anna

[Mark Biasotti]

Fantastic looking renderings Anna! Nice job. You don't know how satisfying it is for us to see people like yourself doing renderings of this caliber. As the former Product Manager for PW and one of the initial instigators for 360, there were more than a few of "us" that I had to convince that engineers want photo-realistic renderings too but are not willing to become a "degreed" photo-rendering expert to obtain them.

[Anna Wood]

Gabi,

You can adjust the color of the blue anodize. Unfortunately the appearance is way to shiny. Doesn't look anything like the anodized parts we have at Auer.

I use that appearance for the black oxide fasteners also. It is too shiny for a black oxide.

I need to find out who to send some sample parts to at Luxology/SolidWorks.

Cheers,

Anna

[Gabi]

It looks awesome, Anna! It would be nice to see it animated.

I agree with you, more materials are needed in PV360. I'm not sure, but I think you can adjust the color of the anodized Aluminum.

[Devon T. Sowell]

Very nice, Anna.

Devon