What’s New in SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2025x FD01
SOLIDWORKS users take pride in their designs, and it shows. I love seeing what you all create and how you bring your ideas to life with SOLIDWORKS and tools like the SOLIDWORKS Visualize rendering solution. With SOLIDWORKS Visualize, you can easily create photorealistic images and animations.
For those of you who like to play, I’ve got some incredible new rendering options in the latest update of SOLIDWORKS Visualize, R2025x functional delivery (FD) 01. The update includes new appearance parameters, enhanced tessellation control, and other features that will boost your designs and have your customers saying wow. Let’s take a look below.
Bokeh Effect – create more impactful renderings by focusing on a desired area and softening the background.
We’ve added the Bokeh Effect option to bring more of your own style to your rendering. After dialing in on the depth of field, similar to a camera lens, you can enable the Bokeh Effect to fine-tune the highlights in the blurred regions of your rendering.
You can control the blade count and blade angles to give the highlights in the blurred area more circular or polygonal effects.
Thin Film and Translucency Color Appearance Options – gain more control of how light interacts with materials.
The Dassault Systèmes Physically-Based Rendering (DSPBR) Appearances menu includes a couple of new parameters that help you convey how surfaces look from different angles.
The Thin Film effect simulates light diffraction, creating colorful patterns on materials. You can play with the Thin Film controls to adjust the thickness to get the desired effect.
The Thin Film option is ideal for effects like soap bubbles or oil on water.
Translucency Color lets you add a diffuse color to the translucent appearance, similar to the Subsurface Color but with better performance. It is helpful for simulating objects, such as translucent curtains, to create a feeling and particular look.
Enhanced Tessellation Control – balance geometry quality with performance.
In addition to overall import performance improvements, you will now have more control over the import quality, with additional options to enable you to import higher-quality models faster.
You’ll find a variety of Mesh Refinement settings, including Default, Simple, and Advanced, that enable more granular control over tessellation to find the ideal balance of quality and performance. Sometimes, you can even re-tessellate parts of a model after the original import to help you find that balance.
Visualize Boost – boost productivity by sending rendering jobs to another computer.
I’m thrilled to announce that Visualize Connected users can now leverage the power of Visualize Boost! If you recall from my last blog, SOLIDWORKS Visualize Boost is a product add-on for SOLIDWORKS Visualize that allows you to lighten the load and speed up rendering on your computer or send rendering jobs to another computer or cluster of computers.
With all these enhancements, you can easily and quickly create more realistic, interesting, and complex renderings, helping you tell a more compelling story. Remember, as SOLIDWORKS CEO Manish Kumar says, it’s not just about creating a product; it’s about creating an experience.
To see these enhancements in action, log into the 3DSwym Community here and scroll down to the Visualize section.
For more information or to get your hands on SOLIDWORKS Visualize, visit https://www.solidworks.com/product/solidworks-visualize.
