Rendering question

atama · Oct 10, 2007

For those of you that do a lot of rendering - how do I make a simple, white backround + shades render, very similar to the one that appears on my screen while I work? Something like this:

http://img523.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cow1vo4.jpg

Of course with materials and all, this is just colours. I know how to put the white backround and everything, but I always have to play for hours with the lights so that it doesn't look dark. Do you have a tip?
And say the only way is playing with the render for hours, is there any way I can save the result - lights, backround, everything? So that I don't have to do it over and over? Saving a template would do the trick?
I work with Solidworks 2007 sp0.0. I remember that when I used to work with 2005 or less, it was very easy to get a simple image. Now I keep getting lost.

rockguy · Oct 10, 2007

To have the shadows you'll need to have the floor visable in the room set up. You could create you own back drop ("L" shaped) for the floor and rear wall if you wanted a little more control.

Once you have everything set the way you like it (lighting, scene set up, etc) you can either save the file as an assembly an inert the files you want to render into that assembly in the future or you can save your own custom scene (you can do this in the scene editor) so you can apply the settings to files in the future by simply dragging and dropping the scene from the task pane.

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atama · Oct 10, 2007

Thanks, another question: how come my object always looks like it floats above the floor if the floor offset is set to 0? It's aligned to x-z plane. If I change the offset to another value (I have to do it little by little to find the right amount) it could be ok but then after a while it looks floating again.

Eltron · Oct 10, 2007

It's a bug. Annoying little stinker, too. To get around this I usually just create a "Floor" part and mate my main part/assembly to it.

Dan

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rockguy · Oct 10, 2007

Dan has a good workaround. I am happy to report though this issue seems to have been fixed (no really) in 2008

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