SolidWorks® 2010: No Experience Required™

Chapter 17. Creating Simple, Stunning Renderings

• Use the PhotoView 360 User Interface

• Create Your First Rendering

• Customize Your Rendering Even More

• Create Renderings with Depth of Field

Throughout the preceding chapters, you have learned many new skills in SolidWorks that will ensure your success in future designs. If you were to stop reading here, you would be able to create new designs, share them with other users, and even see your designs manufactured. But, you would be missing out one other skill that was previously considered too difficult and time-consuming to be a realistic option.

Prior to SolidWorks 2008, photorealistic renderings needed to be created with software packages such as PhotoWorks, Maya, and others. PhotoWorks is a powerful rendering ...