SOLIDWORKS VISUALIZEOBJECTIVE
SOLIDWORKS ® Visualize enables anyone to create professional, photo-quality images, animations, and other 3D
content in the fastest and easiest way possible, enabling designers, engineers, and content creators to enhancetheir 3D decision making experience. Users will design and market products with more impact by turning
imagination into reality with SOLIDWORKS Visualize as the “camera” for their CAD data.

OVERVIEWSOLIDWORKS Visualize helps organizations and nontechnicalusers leverage 3D CAD data to create photo-quality marketing
content that is print and web-ready in minutes. From static
images to animations, interactive web content, and immersive
Virtual Reality (VR), SOLIDWORKS Visualize delivers graphicalcontent that depicts products in the real world and elevatesthe design process.
By improving concepts throughout the design, development,and marketing phases, SOLIDWORKS Visualize help users
select, validate, improve, and sell the best and most robust
design concepts before committing expensive engineering,
prototyping, and marketing resources to the project. It helps
reduce errors and ensure that products get to market fasterthan ever before.

BENEFITS• See what your products look like in the real world—inminutes.
• Improve internal design, engineering, and sales reviews.
• Reduce the cost and number of physical prototypes.
• Make more educated decisions earlier in the development
process, saving valuable time and money.
• Create immersive VR content for enhanced internal
reviews and viral consumer experiences.
• Picture-perfect content allows your design pitch to standout from the crowd and close more business.
• Create content faster and more efﬁciently with integrated
productivity tools.
• Deliver photo-quality imagery and content to marketing
teams much earlier to help create ﬁnal marketing layouts,
well before the ﬁrst prototype is produced.
• Maximize design time, achieve a better ﬁnal product, andget products to market faster—beating your competition.

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGESGraphics Processing Unit (GPU) Accelerated Rendering
SOLIDWORKS Visualize can leverage one or many GPUs ina single machine or across a network, which dramaticallyincreases rendering performance over CPU hardware. Utilizing
NVIDIA ® graphics cards for rendering is much faster thancompetitor CPU technology and helps users speed up their
daily workﬂow, generating more content.

Hybrid Render Mode
Besides leveraging one or many GPUs or CPUs, SOLIDWORKS
Visualize can leverage both GPU and CPU simultaneously(Hybrid mode) in a single machine or across a network.
This rendering mode dramatically increases rendering
performance and allows for entry-level machines to haveincreased performance to generate content faster.

Physically Based Raytracing
Using NVIDIA’s Iray ® render engine inside of SOLIDWORKS
Visualize, users view a precise and physically correct
representation of their CAD model, as if they had physically
produced it. Lighting, materials, and form all come together
realistically without sacriﬁcing visual quality. Physicallybased raytracing is more than just pretty pictures—it is critical
digital accuracy that shows what designs will look like in thereal world.

Intuitive User Interface
SOLIDWORKS Visualize lets users work like they would in aphoto studio, moving the camera around their product andeasily “taking pictures” of their CAD data. SOLIDWORKS
Visualize’s interface, with integrated viewport and its lack ofcomplex node-based materials is designed for those who do
not have time to learn a complex new tool.

Support for 25+ CAD File Formats
No matter what CAD package companies use to model theirprojects, SOLIDWORKS Visualize has them covered. Users canimport over 25 different CAD ﬁle formats, including common
generic formats such as IGES, STEP, and OBJ. They can choose
from several Part Grouping types upon import, making iteasier than ever to go from fresh import to ﬁnal render.

CAPABILITIESSOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard
SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard is the fastest and easiest
route to photo-quality images for anyone who needs to take“photos” of their 3D data, cutting costs and accelerating thetime to market.
• Create photo-quality images at unlimited resolution• Advanced multi-layer materials• Integrated animation ribbon for easy camera animation
setup• Rapidly generate colorways and product variations byusing conﬁgurations• Two types of interactive web content (interactive imageand panoramas)• Instantly increase productivity with the integrated render
queue• Customizable camera ﬁlters and post-processing• Accurate simulation of real-world lighting with HighDynamic Range (HDR) support, for photorealism without
cumbersome manual lighting techniques• Integrated advanced lighting techniques of Sun & Sky andSun studies• Show off inner complexity with cut planes (section views)
and fading the opacity of parts and models• Present photo-quality designs in real-time withPresentation Mode and adjustable baked lighting• Integrated connection to the SOLIDWORKS online
Community of over 1000 free assets

SOLIDWORKS Visualize Boost (Add-on to VisualizeProfessional)• Decals (interactive stickers) support and real-life placement• Support for professional texture maps (bump/normal,specular, alpha, and color)

SOLIDWORKS Visualize Boost instantly increases render speed
and content productivity by sending render jobs to a dedicatedcluster of machines.

• Interactive part splitter for separating surfaces without
going back to CAD modeling tool

• One seat of Visualize Boost is included at no cost witheach seat of Visualize Professional on active Subscription!

• Preset camera ﬁlters to enhance images and make them
pop off the screen• Stack up multiple render jobs in your Render Queue andofﬂoad your local machine, to keep using Visualize, CAD,or other demanding applications.

• SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard is included atno costwith each active SOLIDWORKS CAD Professional orPremium subscription!

SOLIDWORKS Visualize Professional
SOLIDWORKS Visualize Professional allows users to tell adeeper story with their CAD data by generating photo-quality
imagery, animations, interactive web content, 360-degree
spins, and immersive Virtual Reality (VR) to effectively
communicate the most complex design details.
• PowerBoost real-time network rendering: stream
raytracing directly to your viewport from your Visualize
Boost render farm
• Full animation suite: parts, models, appearances,environments and cameras• Create and manage your Visualize Boost render farm froman easy-to-use webpage.
• Leverage both CPUs and GPUs across your network.