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<title>Rendering?</title>
<link>http://www.zwsoft.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=910</link>
<description>Will ZW3D have a better rendering method than VX did?  Although I send my models to our toolshop across town, there are times that I like to have a good rendered visual also.  There are times that i want to send a customer a PDF of a part that they want and would love to have realistic rendering.  Thanks.
Bob
Bioplastics </description>
<author>biobob</author>
<pubDate>2010-11-05 12:42:07</pubDate>
<item><link>http://www.zwsoft.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=910&amp;pid=5065</link>
<description>Hi Bob, 
the current visualisation tools actually allow you to do a decent presentation by applying images and textures to surfaces/faces and then using a nice back ground.

the key is to find some nice images that represent what you want. I search the web for images  I can crop a something out of. The stretch and pattern options can really change the initial appearance of an image when it is applied to a face.

Check out the Shoe challenge earlier in the forum - &lt;a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href=&quot;http://zw3d.zwcad.org/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&amp;threadid=811&quot;&gt;Shoe (a.k.a. Show Challenge!)&lt;/a&gt; as indication. Also some of the show and tells have visualisation applied and you can do an autopsy on these to see how they did it.

IMO, it would be neat if a library of good images was assembled for ZW3D to have as part of the install or at least develop a library you could down load. Would be neat if users contributed to the library too.  Here's hopin'
Cheers </description>
<author>mudcrab</author>
<pubDate>2010-12-01 22:17:41</pubDate>
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<description>Certainly one on the wanted list for those of us who used the original VX rendering (v12 and below). ZWCAD 2010/2011, ZWSOFT's &quot;2D&quot; product, has a very nice built-in rendering facility - easy to use and fast too. I know some customers prefer to use a dedicated rendering package and there are many to choose from. A couple that I like, because they can give excellent results without the User needing to be an expert, are Bunkspeed Shot and KeyShot.

Quick Sample in ZWCAD:
&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.professorcad.co.uk//VX_Stuff/ZW_Render.png&quot;&gt;

&lt;a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href=&quot;http://www.zwcad.org/download_list.php&quot;&gt;http://www.zwcad.org/download_list.php&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href=&quot;http://www.bunkspeed.com/index.html&quot;&gt;http://www.bunkspeed.com/index.html&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href=&quot;http://www.keyshot.com/index.html&quot;&gt;http://www.keyshot.com/index.html&lt;/a&gt; </description>
<author>ChrisW</author>
<pubDate>2010-11-14 20:14:24</pubDate>
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