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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.
SOLIDWORKS Visualize Training

Course Duration

2 Days  (7 hours/day)

Prerequisites

Experience with the Windows® operating system.

Some experience operating a conventional camera.

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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

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