Will Photoworks be fixed or improved with SW 2008?
Will Photoworks be fixed or improved with SW 2008?
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Question says it all, is anyone in the know about any changes to Photoworks with SW 2008. I'm currently shopping around for a 3rd party rendering engine, and Maxwell makes me nervous based on some of the informations I've read... ie, that it is still pretty much Beta software. (But then again, isn't it all?) Anyway, any info on this would be much appreciated. Thanks.






RE: Will Photoworks be fixed or improved with SW 2008?
RE: Will Photoworks be fixed or improved with SW 2008?
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe transcends reason.
RE: Will Photoworks be fixed or improved with SW 2008?
As CBL says you can download PR2 now and try it for yourself.
Maxwell still has a lot of bugs, no doubt.
What kind of products are you trying to render?
Rob Rodriguez CSWP
www.axiscadsolutions.com
www.robrodriguez.com
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/rob_rodriguez/
Eastern Region SWUGN Representative www.swugn.org www.nvtswug.com
SW 2007 SP 2.0
RE: Will Photoworks be fixed or improved with SW 2008?
They have absolutely ZERO understanding of what I'm even attempting to do, and any attempt to explain the concept of a rendering farm is met with stupified glares and disbelief.
That's brings up another great point? How do you retrieve the preview window in photoworks once you close out of it?
Tools, Customize, Commands doesn't work by dragging the icon back into the menu, and nothing in the help section that I can find.
Enough Ranting... lol... If anyone can suggest an affordable, stable rendering engine that is compatible with solidworks (either fia plug-in, or just format swapping) Please share!
RE: Will Photoworks be fixed or improved with SW 2008?
Dan
www.eltronresearch.com
RE: Will Photoworks be fixed or improved with SW 2008?
You can toggle the preview window on and off with the photoworks toolbar icon.
Rob Rodriguez CSWP
www.axiscadsolutions.com
www.robrodriguez.com
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/rob_rodriguez/
Eastern Region SWUGN Representative www.swugn.org www.nvtswug.com
SW 2007 SP 2.0
RE: Will Photoworks be fixed or improved with SW 2008?
I've tried to add it back in using Customize commands, but then I end up with two greyed out icons, that don't do anything.??
RE: Will Photoworks be fixed or improved with SW 2008?
It is in no way conducive to being productive in a fast paced environment, and that is essentially my problem.
RE: Will Photoworks be fixed or improved with SW 2008?
You may already know this, but what I do while I tweak my PW settings is set my screen to Four View. The graphics processor only renders one of the four quadrants at a time. This dramatically reduces render time and gives you a big enough preview of the settings that you can actually tell what's changed.
Dan
www.eltronresearch.com
RE: Will Photoworks be fixed or improved with SW 2008?
Our company is evaluating Hypershot right now, from Bunkspeed (www.bunkspeed.com). I have been blown away by the results achieved in less than five minutes, and for us that's important since we don't want to spend hours rendering. There's a trial version available if you want to check it out.
RE: Will Photoworks be fixed or improved with SW 2008?
RE: Will Photoworks be fixed or improved with SW 2008?
Rob Rodriguez CSWP
www.axiscadsolutions.com
www.robrodriguez.com
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/rob_rodriguez/
Eastern Region SWUGN Representative www.swugn.org www.nvtswug.com
SW 2007 SP 2.0