SolidWorks Rendering Services

We transform SolidWorks designs into photo real images. You can see your design in photographic quality before anything has actually been manufactured.

We have lots of clients that are frustrated by how difficult it is to render realistic images with SolidWorks and PhotoWorks. There are some great example renders out there, but so far our clients have found it difficult to achieve photo real results – good enough to replace photography and use in marketing.

Here at Protograph we are experts in taking native SolidWorks files and importing them into our own visualization software – we don’t use PhotoWorks! We then add realistic materials and lighting to the model, so we can render it on our substantial render farm. We can process even the most complex SolidWorks assemblies and render them with ease. We have developed this process over the last 5 years and it provides one of the very few routes where huge CAD data sets can be rendered without the need for extensive data conversion into polygons, which is time consuming – and time is money! We keep your data in it’s original form throughout the whole process.

Don’t worry about simplifying your model for us at render stage. We take full manufacturing sets of data and turn them into marketing images. In fact we prefer all detail to be modeled in, rather than created through tricks at the render stage. If you have a grill with thousands of holes in it, let’s have the data – file size is not an issue for us.

Working with Protograph is simple. There’s no need to convert your SolidWorks file - just send it along with some screen grabs of view angles you’d like, along with an annotated materials specification. Protograph then generate a test render for you to approve before we render the final image.

To make your SolidWorks renders look totally real, we urge clients to model in all the little details like tiny radiuses on most edges. These help to catch the light an make the SolidWorks render look more realistic. It is very rare to see any mass produced parts that are molded with totally hard edges without any radii.
You will definitely see the difference.

But we don’t just produce still images; we also produce animations that can showcase your new design in action. Turn table animations of SolidWorks data can show your audience the design from all angles in photo real quality.

So if you are a user of SolidWorks and PhotoWorks and want to see your new designs rendered to perfection, then you need to contact Protograph, the SolidWorks Rendering experts. We work fast using our in-house render farm and have lots of experience with small and huge projects.

Please do get in touch to find out more!

Protograph are a world class provider of visualization services to designers and manufacturers. Our images are used to sell new designs before they exist. From boats through to hearing aids.

Please do take a look around our web site to find our more about our capabilities.