SOLIDWORKS Visualize Course Overview

The SOLIDWORKS Visualize course is designed to enhance the skills of users in creating photorealistic images, animations, and interactive visual content from their SOLIDWORKS models. This course covers a range of topics from basic scene setup to advanced animations and simulations, providing participants with the tools needed to bring their designs to life and communicate their ideas more effectively.

Skills Learned:

Scenes Setup: Learn how to import models, use backplates, and apply shadow catcher properties to integrate models seamlessly into any background.
Lighting and Environments: Master the use of HDR environments, sunlight environments, and custom lights, including IES profiles, to create realistic lighting conditions.
Productivity Tools: Utilize multiple views, render queues, and Visualize Boost to streamline the rendering process and improve workflow efficiency.
Animations: Create complex animations including rotation animations, camera movements, and appearance animations to showcase designs in motion.
Camera Techniques: Develop skills in camera animation, focusing on camera movement, keyframe properties, and motion ease to produce dynamic visual content.
Simulations: Explore simulated physics and shake simulations to add realistic motion and interactions to your visual content.

Course Duration

2 Days (7 hours/day)

Prerequisites

Experience with the Windows® operating system.

Some experience operating a conventional camera.

Course Examples

SOLIDWORKS Visualize Course Syllabus

Lesson 1: CAD to SOLIDWORKS Visualize

Rendering from CAD
Importing to Visualize

Open
Visualize User Interface
Toolbar
Viewport
Palette
Heads Up Display
Drop-downs

Render Selection
Denoiser

Required Hardware for Denoiser
Activating Denoiser
Render Engine
Easy Mode

Appearances
File Libraries
Color Picker
Scenes
Rendering

Render Wizard

Exercise 1: Cooler
Exercise 2: Sun Glasses

Lesson 2: Import Settings and Appearances

Import Settings
Appearances
Part Grouping

Component/Part/Body
Appearance
Automatic
Flatten
Group/Appearance
Layer
Layer/Appearance
Appearance
Appearance/Layer
Retain Structure
Monitor File
Snap to Floor
Instancing

Instancing
Selection Tools
Object Manipulation
Split

SOLIDWORKS Visualize Add-In

Copy and Paste
Appearance Types

Enterprise PBR Shading Model
Car Paint
Metal
Basic
Emissive
Textile
Leather
Wood
Glass
Plastic

Textures
Texture Mapping

UV
Box
Planar
Spherical
Radial
Cylindrical
Perspective

Appearance Parameters
Merge Parts
Exercise 3: SOLIDWORKS Add-In
Exercise 4: Arbor Press

Lesson 3: Decals

Decal Feature
Blend Texture
Multi-Layer Decal Process

Alpha Mapping
Multi-Layer Appearance

Decal Depth
Decal Mapping
Exercise 5: Pencil Sharpener
Exercise 6: Water Bottle
Exercise 7: Airplane Decals

Lesson 4: Cameras

Cameras
Aspect Ratio
Keep Above Floor
Perspective
Camera Orientation

Distance/Dolly
Longitude / Latitude
Twist
Position XYZ
Camera Positioning

Grid Overlay
Depth of Field

Focal Distance
Aperture

Filters

Enable Post-Processing
Apply to Geometry Only
Bloom
Toon

Exercise 8: British Car
Exercise 9: Watch

Lesson 5: Backplates, Environments and Lights

Scenes
Import Model
Backplates

Shadow Catcher Property

Environments

HDR Environments
Sunlight Environments

New Cutting Plane
Lights
Exercise 10: IES Profiles
Exercise 11: At The Beach

Lesson 6: Productivity Tools

Multiple Views
Render All Cameras
Time Limit Rendering
Output Viewer
Configurations
Export

Shared File Libraries

Render All Configurations
Render Queue
Patterns
Visualize Boost
Exercise 12: Ice Pick
Exercise 13: Guitar Colors

Lesson 7: Animations and Grouping

Animations

Rotation Animation
Animation Timeline and Controls
Motion Study Tools
Animation Controls
Animation Properties
Animation List
Timeline

Animation Output
Motion Blur
Keyframe Animation

Auto Keyframing

Exercise 14: Cooler Animation
Exercise 15: Pencil Sharpener Explode

Lesson 8: Camera Animations

Camera Animations
Camera Movement with the Triad

Position Camera
Position View

Camera Animation
Keyframe Properties

Time Point
Transition
Tension
Motion Ease

Exercise 16: Guitar
Exercise 17: Pencil Sharpener Camera Animation

Lesson 9: Animating Appearances, Scenes

Appearance and Scene Animations
Scene Animation
Appearance Animations
Exercise 18: Guitar Color
Exercise 19: Video Decals

Lesson 10: Alternative Outputs

Turntable

Viewport Turntables
Animation Wizard

Interactive View

Number of Orbits
Images per Orbit
Start Angle
End Angle

Panoramic View
Sunlight Animation
360 Camera

Mono
Stereo Two-Up
Stereo Anaglyph

Export
Exercise 20: Airplane
Exercise 21: Computer Room

Lesson 11: Simulations

Simulated Physics
Shake Simulations

Dynamic Components
Static Components

Simulation Manager
Simulation States
Vehicle Simulations
Physics Animations
Exercise 22: Toys