Two that will immediately spring to mind include Photoworks and Photoview 360, however I was able to get my hands on a pre-release of Keyshot (formerly known as Bunkspeed Hypershot) as well as the established premium program Maxwell Render. I grabbed a chassis of a motorbike from 3D Content Central and applied some different metal and plastic materials to the model. I tested out the main 4 programs that work seamlessly with Solidworks. Value 9 – Feature-wise it must be good value for money. Value 8 – It must have an intuitive and aesthetically simple user-interface design. Value 7 – It must be fault proof, so that it is customisable but not so customisable that if you put a decimal point in the wrong spot of an input field the render shouldn’t end up being a plain black or white screen. Value 6 – It should be easy for the designer to add materials or edit existing materials/environments for the program. Value 5 – There must be a comprehensive amount of built in or available materials and scenes for the program. It shouldn’t be a constant trial and error back and forth process.
Value 4 – The designer should get an instantaneous and realistic preview of what the final render will look like before he/she clicks render. Value 3 – The render should look realistic and give clear results that a designer can use to communicate to his/her client. Value 2 – The actual render process should be as fast as possible (in a working environment no more than 10 minutes per render). Value 1 -The time to setup the scene of the render should be fast. Unlike many other rendering software critiques on the internet I thought instead of just judging a program by how good it’s finished renders are, I would judge the programs on a whole bunch of criteria relevant to Industrial Designers in a working environment. So I thought I would find the best rendering package for Solidworks on the market today. Just recently on Embody 3D we did a poll surveying the most popular CAD programs used in industry, and a large portion of voters cast their ballot for Solidworks. The last few days I have considered what Industrial Designers really need when it comes to a rendering program.
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