So that was my introduction to rendering. My thesis would have been far prettier with this rendered model included.

I kicked myself for not knowing about this function a month sooner. I wondered, what was this? What was happening to my CAD model? It was transforming into something else-it was rendering.Īfter about 45 minutes, my hitherto textureless model had been born again-with photorealistic lighting and materials and everything. I clicked the icon, and my ancient desktop PC fan started groaning under the CPU load. There was an icon in the screen with the words “final render” written on it. I looked at the options and saw a phrase that I had heard from my 3D animation friends, but had not seen in my CAD course. It was labeled “PhotoWorks,” and I loaded the add-in. I submitted my thesis, left university and carried on teaching myself the software in my newly acquired free time.Įxactly one week after leaving university, I was going through the software and looking at the add-ins, when I noticed one in particular. I had gotten pretty good at modeling, so my thesis was full of pretty black and white models, which amounted to not much more than screencaps of isometric drawings.

My cohort took one module of CAD and technical drawing to show us the basics and we were basically left to fend for ourselves after that.įast forward to my final year of school, three years later. I’ve been using SOLIDWORKS since the first year of my aerospace engineering degree in 2007.

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