Rendering Figure 6. Thinkreal lets you create photorealistic images of 3D models. You can control surface textures, lighting, reflections and shadows, and apply bitmap images to models using a decal tool. This is a great way for companies to test product graphics in a virtual environment before committing to a final graphic treatment. Other rendering tools include virtual scenery for backdrops and a base, lighting control, fog effects, and an extensive material library.
Users can also modify existing materials or create their own from scratch.
This gives complete freedom to create photorealistic renderings of your models for product marketing and concept studies. The rendering interface had a bit of a learning curve, and it took some time before I was comfortable with all of the tools. Because most users must deal with other CAD applications, I did a few roundtrip tests to see how well thinkdesign's translators function. Roundtrip simply means I used thinkdesign to build and export a model, then imported the model back into thinkdesign. Unfortunately, I had bad luck.