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PhotoView 360 Presentations in August

August is shaping up to be a busy month and I have SWUGN and PhotoView 360 to thank.  Seems PhotoView 360 presentations are in high demand at SolidWorks user groups and I ‘ve been asked by a number of group leaders to present the topic.  Typically I limit my user group traveling to a 4…

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PhotoView 360 Users See Some Love.

If you’re a PhotoView 360 user you may have noticed an increase in a flow of PhotoView 360 information from SolidWorks.  This is very welcome in my mind and I have to believe other PhotoView 360 users like this new information exchange as well.  This flow of information can be found at the SolidWorks forums…

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Photorealistic Rendering Using SolidWorks and PhotoView 360 Now Shipping

The Photorealistic Rendering Using SolidWorks and PhotoView 360 Step By Step Guide is now shipping!  Everyone who has purchased during the pre buy period will receive their book very soon as they all shipped on 4/22/11.  Special pricing on both the PhotoView 360 and Creating Animations guide will remain in effect until Wednesday April 27th. Photorealistic Rendering…

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modo for SolidWorks Kit is Live!

The modo for SolidWorks Kit has been announced at the Luxology website.  The modo for SolidWorks Kit has been over a year in the making and is born from a collaboration between Luxology, modo and SolidWorks users.  If you’re a SolidWorks/PhotoView 360 user who wants/needs to enhance your visualization capabilities for both rendering and animation…

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SP3 Enhancements to PhotoView 360

Service Pack 3.0 for SolidWorks 2011 has been released and there are some great enhancements included for PhotoView 360. First up we see some great speed enhancements in the render preview.  Lot’s of users noted the integration of PhotoView 360 into SolidWorks 2011 slowed the render preview performance.  There was a couple of tricks to…

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Photorealistic Rendering Using SolidWorks and PhotoView 360

Photorealistic Rendering Using SolidWorks and PhotoView 360 is a new step By step guide from DS SolidWorks.  This guide replaces the PhotoWorks guide and is specifically written for PhotoView 360 2011.  At 562 pages it covers all aspects of PhotoView 360 as well as RealView and OpenGL graphics modes in SolidWorks. The book isn’t available…

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PhotoView Friday

Ron Bates from DS SolidWorks has started a new video series at the SolidWorks forum titled “PhotoView Friday”. According to his post he’ll be posting a new video every month and his goal is “to simply be another resource for our community, to help everyone learn more about rendering, and hopefully be more productive. Teach, inspire, share,…

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PhotoView 360: Instant images

“PhotoView 360: Instant Images” is a 60 minute hands on session from SolidWorks World 2011.  During a hands on session approximately 30 people follow along with the instructor (me) and/or the provided handout.  This session had so many pre-conference sign ups it was run twice and both sessions were full.  The presentation covers the basics of PhotoView…

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SolidWorks to modo: What’s in the Kit

“Solidworks to modo: What’s in the kit” was a well attended session at SolidWorks World 2011. Paul McCrorey and I teamed up to give this session together.  Neither of us had ever done a session with a partner but it went well and very smooth I think.  The presentation gives an overview of what users…

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