SOLIDWORKS VISUALIZE
Photo-Realistic Rendering and Animation Software
WHAT IS SOLIDWORKS VISUALIZE?
SOLIDWORKS Visualize is a photo-realistic rendering tool that utilizes your CAD data to create magazine quality images or commercial quality animations. Make your images pop with real-time ray tracing, AI Denoiser, and I-Ray technology from Nvidia powered GPU’s or AMD ProRender. Visualize can leverage CUDA core technology from Nvidia or render cores from AMD ProRender to render your images in no time! Need more power? No problem, add additional GPU’s to your existing hardware or set up a cluster for everyone to share.
SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard vs Professional
Visualize has two different packages: Standard and Professional. The great news is that if you purchase SOLIDWORKS CAD Professional or Premium and you are on maintenance, then you have Visualize Standard already! Get your renders started by following the introductory training videos in the GoEngineer Resource Center.
Visualize Professional adds an array of features including animations, custom lighting, VR, 360 Interactive, and much more. SOLIDWORKS Visualize Professional provides the highest level of detail and optimized render times.
“ The problem was very specific and difficult to visualize. To his credit, the support engineer created a meeting fairly quickly, with only the need for 7 minutes of background on the problem. ”
– Charles Griswold, 
SOLIDWORKS Visualize Features
Photo Realistic
Generate awesome imagery using your CAD data with the power of SOLIDWORKS Visualize and Nvidia GPU's. Visualize can monitor your CAD data and update as CAD revisions are approved. Rendering your project can be done in no time providing stunning imagery for your company, brand, and website.
LIGHTS
Visualize Professional offers custom lighting specifically for those artists that are looking to enhance fine details! With an excellent user interface, even a novice can add lights for great feature detail and photo-realistic results.
ANIMATIONS
Tell a complete story using SOLIDWORKS Visualize and create dynamic animations. Like never before, render complete animations of your CAD data and provide a story from start to finish start for your products, customers, and potential investors.
RENDER QUEue
Tired of waiting for paint to dry or a render to finish? Line them up in the Visualize Render Queue. Add images to render on the fly during your creative process. The Queue Render makes it easy to break out your creative eye and publish multiple images to render when it’s convenient for you.
SUN STUDY
Setting up a time elapse for your products with a Sun Study is a captivating animation and sure to grab a consumer's attention. It's a short setup and is quick to the point, view your product from sunrise to sunset.
Visualize Boost and PowerBoost
SOLIDWORKS Visualize Boost allows you to offload rendering to one or more machines on a network. This will free up your hardware to continue using Visualize or doing other tasks. Visualize PowerBoost allows you to utilize the resources on one or more machines on a network in your viewport during the live render mode. This allows you to see the set-up and make changes to your project much faster.
VR / 360 INTERACTIVE
There is nothing more immersive than virtually spinning an image of your product in 360, or viewing it through a VR headset. SOLIDWORKS Visualize gives you this capability to produce virtual images and animations of your CAD designs.
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SOLIDWORKS Visualize Packages
Visualize Standard offers great functionality for painting CAD files with monitor file capabilities (CAD update) for SOLIDWORKS built in. You can create images, apply decals, grab snapshots, apply various textures including bump, alpha, color and specular, texture blending, and Pantone color snag. Various scenes are available to illuminate your project with full background customization and tools for 2D image creation. Visualize Standard is included with SOLIDWORKS Professional and Premium. It is a separate install, so this tool can be shared within the engineering department or with team members in marketing or web departments. Visualize Standard is also available for purchase as a standalone license, which can later be upgraded to Professional.
Visualize Professional is the top tier rendering product from SOLIDWORKS. Professional unlocks Animations, Virtual Reality, 360 Interactive, Sun Study, Custom Lighting, Boost/Power Boost, Render Queue, and more! Create 10 times the amount of content with the Render Queue alone! Expand your creativity and generate content that’s sure to catch the eye of your customer as well as the competition. Whether you’re showcasing a new prototype, sourcing VC funding, or offering a new product line, SOLIDWORKS Visualize Professional is a must for your organization. Be the first in your industry to showcase gorgeous 360 / VR images and animations directly on your website. Don’t put this off any longer; Visualize your future!
Compare Visualize
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| Hybrid Render Mode | |
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| Physically-Based Raytracing | |
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| Intuitive User Interface | |
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| CAD and Graphic File Support | |
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| CAD Live-Update | |
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| Surface/Part Splitter | |
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| Interactive Depth of Field | |
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| Artificial Intelligence (AI) Denoiser | |
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| Advanced Material Support with NVIDIA MDL and PBR | |
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| Decals (Interactive Stickers) | |
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| Custom Keyboard Shortcuts | |
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| Automatic Data Recovery | |
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| XR Exporter for AR/VR Experiences | |
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| Support for High-Resolution Displays (4K Monitors and Beyond) | |
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| SOLIDWORKS PDM Integration | |
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| Import SOLIDWORKS Animations and Motion Studies | |
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| Full Animation Suite | |
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| Animation Ribbon | |
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| Visualize Boost Support | |
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| PowerBoost Real-Time Network Rendering | |
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| Browser-Based Interactive Image and Panoramic Outputs | |
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| Customizable Photographic Camera Filters | |
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| Integrated Render Queue | |
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| New Area Lights and Light Placement | |
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| Integrated Physics Engine | |
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| Vehicle Driving Simulator | |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Nvidia GPU’s that support CUDA Core technology & AMD GPU’s. This includes workstation and non-workstation (gaming) graphics cards. While gaming cards are not tested by SOLIDWORKS and not officially supported, they offer the best cost to performance ratio. We would recommend using workstation GPU’s with SOLIDWORKS CAD and Visualize parallel installs.
Boost allows you to upload a project through the render queue to a secondary computer allowing you to continue your daily activities on your personal computer while the boost machine does all the work.
Power Boost allows a Visualize content creator to steal the GPU power from another machine(s) on the network. This is a great feature from an IT standpoint; instead of upgrading 10 GPU’s for 10 different content creators, install ~4 GPU’s on a network machine (render box) for multiple users to share.
Option 1: Call Tech Support at 888-559-6167, for assistance in 5 minutes or less.
Option 2: Log into your SOLIDWORKS.com Customer Portal account, expand My Support menu, go to My Products, and select the Visualize serial number (Get License) from the My SOLIDWORKS Products listing. Watch a video tutorial here.
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PROFESSIONAL SOLIDWORKS TRAINING
GoEngineer offers online and classroom professional SOLIDWORKS training for organizations and individuals. All our instructors are SOLIDWORKS certified and teach thousands of students each year world wide. The curriculum is very diverse with numerous certified SOLIDWORKS courses to choose from. Each student will receive a Course Completion Certificate and preparation materials for SOLIDWORKS certification.
- Increase Your Earning Potential
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- Smaller Classes with Focused Attention
Additional Resources
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Find a Solution
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