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INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
The most basic appearances SolidWorks utilizes is color
It is poor practice to leave all of your assembly's components the default grey. This leads to confusion. It is best to open up each component and change the color of the entire part
Sometimes it is beneficial to add a color appearance to individual faces
Once the appearance properties have been selected, the user must now select what they wish to apply the appearance to
PART - applies to everything within the part
BODY - applies to the entire body
FACE - applied to the selected face
There are more options, but rarely used
Remove appearance can be used to reset once the appearance becomes too crazy to fix
The advanced tab brings other properties such as transparency that can be useful when creating parts that might be less than opaque
Different than the material property, any material appearance can be applied similarly to any color
RMB MENU
RMB MENU
RMB (Right-click) on a part and you can access the Appearance Dropdown Menu which would allow you to copy, paste, and remove appearances
This is helpful for taking appearances you like and transferring them to other features/parts
COPY/PASTE
COPY/PASTE
When you first copy an appearance, you can then paste it. When pasting it to a single entity, you must first select from the pop-up menu where along the hierarchy you'd like to have the appearance applied
photoview 360
photoview 360
Photoview 360 is an integrated addon within SolidWorks to creater realistic renderings
ADD-IN
ADD-IN
Options→Add-Ins→Check PhotoView 360
On the Command Manager, RMB any tab→Tabs→Render Tools
Integrated Preview: Overlays a mild rendering on top of your model in the graphics area
Preview Window: Creates a medium rendering in a new window
Final Render: Creates a full-blown light simulation rendering in a new window.
All three options require a lot of computing power and ensure all models are saved prior to enabling any one of them
visualize
visualize
Visualize is a program separate from SolidWorks that takes in 3D models and assigns materials for rendering similarly to Photoview 360
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