Rendering,
Hardware agnostic, unbiased, interactive wysiwyg pathtracing using NVIDIA iray (Accurate Mode)

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Hardware agnostic, biased, interactive wysiwyg raytracing using NVIDIA iray (Fast Mode)

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Hardware agnostic, high quality, interactive wysiwyg rasterizer (Preview Mode)

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Supported techniques such as global illumination, ambient occlusion, screenspace shadows, IBL, color bleeding, dispersive caustics, unlimited raybounces, refraction, rough reflections and more.

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Automatic ”Blending” between rendering modes

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HDRI lighting

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Light emission from geometry

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Ground reflectivity and roughness

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Rasterized baked lighting

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Input,
Solidworks (SLDPRT/SDLASM)

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Alias (WIRE)

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3D PDF

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3D XML

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ACIS (SAT)

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IGES

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STEP

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Collada (DAE)

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Pro/E / Creo (PRT)

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Filmbox (FBX)

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Animated Filmbox (FBX)

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3D Studio Max (3DS)

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Rhino (3DM)

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Wavefront (OBJ)

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SketchUp (SKP)

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Maya (MB)

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SolidEdge (ASM/PAR)

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Autodesk (DWG/DXF)

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Inventor (IPT/IAM)

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CATIA

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ICEM

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U3D (Unigraphics)

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Parasolids

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NX

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VDA

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Live Update from CAD

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Output,
Unlimited resolution offline rendering

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Alpha Channel

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Early image save

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Threaded offline renderings

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JPG, BMP, PNG, TIFF, HDR and PSD output

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Built in image viewer tab

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Render Profiles

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Preview (raster) output

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Render all Configurations

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Render all Cameras

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Render Passes

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Turntable rendering

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Automatic movie (.mp4, .mkv, .flv) output

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Browser based VR output

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Browser based Panoramic output

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Scene Preparation,
CAD Live-update

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Auto-Paint

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Direct manipulation of parts

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Surface/Part Splitter

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Group and reorganize parts in the tree view

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Model/Part reset and freeze

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Formation tool

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Part re-tessellation

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Multiple model sets

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Simple vehicle wheel building

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Animation,
Proprietary ”3D graph editor” Ribbon

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Turntable Animations

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Sun Study Animations

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Keyframe animations of Models, Groups and Parts

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Keyframe animation of Materials

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Keyframe animation of Cameras

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Keyframe animation of Environments

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Keyframe animation of Lights

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Realtime turntable

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Materials,
Scientifically accurate preset and adjustable materials

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Supported techniques such as fresnel reflections, absorbtion, transmittance, anisotropy (mappable), emission.

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Color/texture, opacity, specular, anisotropic, bump and normal mapping

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Advanced materials: Subsurface, Thin Film, Backscatter

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Flexible local or cloud based asset storage

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Sharable material definition files (.svap)

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Drag and drop materials/textures from desktop or any folder

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Unique in and out of app color picker/dropper

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Save favorite colors

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Texturable and paintable decals

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Layered decals

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Decal projection

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Controllable decal depth

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Multple part decals

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Displacement Mapping

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Lighting,
Lighting, shadow and reflection casting from HDRI

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High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI) interation and control

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HDR Light Studio compatible

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Prop creation for additinal light sources

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Time of day (Sun and Sky) lighting model

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Photometric lights (Point, Spot and Directional)

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Raster object reflections (Preview Mode)

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Raster culling (Preview Mode)

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Camera optics,
F-Stop, Focal length, Field of view and Perspective settings

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Exchangeable camera files (.svcm)

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Interactive depth of field with focal point selection

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Multiple cameras with individual aspect ratio and settings

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Orthographic camera

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Walk-around camera

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Rule of thirds overlay

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Preset photographic camera filters

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Real-time customizable photographic camera filters

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Follow and aim cameras and objects

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Real world camera positioning

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Motion blur

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Region rendering

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FBX camera export

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Productivity
Highly optimized parallel architechture

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Hybrid Based CPU and GPU rendering

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Near Linear performance scaling with added CPU’s and GPU’s

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3D Connexion device support

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Queue rendering manager

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Configurations

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Multiple viewports (Dual, Quad and Orthographic)

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