Creating accurate and realistic renderings can help entice stakeholders and customers buy into the vision of your product concepts. Achieving accuracy requires paying attention to the little things: small details often make the difference between flat and photo-real. Read on to learn about how you can leverage KeyShot's opacity maps to create worn away edges for both hard and soft touch materials.
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Cables show up in all kinds of products, environments and scenes. Here’s how you can use KeyShot RealCloth™ to create a braided cable effect.
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We’re thrilled to share with you the incredibly creative winning entries of the YDxKeyShot Material Design Challenge. The three winners stood out amongst hundreds of entries for their photorealism, versatility, and potential to be used across various industries. Nacho Riesco, Colin Ginn and Shahin Fathi truly made the most of the KeyShot Material Graph.
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Did you see the new structure part example tutorials on IronCAD.Academy? These videos are a great tutorial to learn about IronCAD’s different design capabilities. For users that are familiar traditional CAD systems, structured part mode can offer a familiar user experience, with the benefit of having IronCAD’s other industry leading features. On top of this flexibility, IronCAD can cover those cases where you may want to use multiple bodies and more of a rigid approach to your part design. This
KeyVR users will enjoy OpenXR integration, a cool new Sketch Tool (in beta), as well as several performance and stability improvements in today's KeyVR update.
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We all know that eye-catching images are key to driving online sales. What if they could be interactive as well? Read on to learn how KeyShotXR can help you create interactive 360° point-of-sale visuals for your ecommerce store or website.
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The KeyShot HDRI editor is a great tool for when you want to create real-world lighting but you’re limited by time or computing power. While the Physical Lights capability is the most accurate way to create realistic lighting and shadows, it can require more resources to render. The HDRI editor is the perfect solution for rendering realistic lighting, fast.
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We're not going to lie: judging the Core77 Design Awards is a blast... and a challenge! The competition doesn't disappoint and never fails to offer up the most innovative design created today. We're thrilled to share with you the visuals that came out on top.
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We're excited to bring you a new point release of KeyShot 11 that includes native support for Mac computers with Apple silicon (beta) plus several powerful new workflow capabilities and over 75 bug fixes.
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Whether you’re trying to create weathered effects, wear marks, or fingerprints, controlling surface roughness using an image texture in KeyShot will help add a new level of realism and greater flexibility to your projects. Today, we’re going to add fingerprints to a surface using one of KeyShot's included fingerprint textures.
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We're thrilled to announce the YDxKeyShot Material Design Challenge, a unique opportunity for you to explore KeyShot's powerful Material Graph and 3D Paint features to create the materials of your dreams. Winners will not only be awarded KeyShot Pro Subscription but will also get to see their material on the KeyShot Cloud certified materials list. Winning renders will even be showcased on KeyShot's startup window to thousands of KeyShot users across the world!
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IronCAD has a structured BOM mode that allows users to collapse or show specific portions of their scene tree on command. When creating a BOM in ICD, ensure that you select the structured mode in the bill of Materials Style:
When editing the BOM, you will now see an additional column present on the left side that contains + and – that will expand or collapse your BOM.
When you press apply, the BOM will apply your changes and display the BOM as shown in the Edit
Freewrite is a smart, single-purpose tool for those who want to take the next step in writing with full focus, away from distractions. The Ernest Hemingway Freewrite signature edition, Hemingwrite, is an official, limited release from Freewrite in collaboration with the Ernest Hemingway Estate that pays homage to the most iconic literary personality of the last century. Hossein Alfideh captures the essence of Hemingway in the device with the visuals created in KeyShot.
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KeyShot provides plenty of tools to create realistic-looking shadows in any setting. But what about ground shadows? And how can you create a separate ground shadow with a transparent background? Read on to learn how to setup a scene to generate a ground shadow layer for ultimate control (without creating a harsh shadow pass) and, as a bonus, learn more about working with Models Sets in KeyShot.
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ATLANTA, Georgia — Monday, May 30th, 2022 — IronCAD today announced the immediate availability of the IronCAD® 2022 Product Update #1 (PU1), a major extension to the most recent 2022 release. Geared to enhance productivity and the user experience in both 3D and 2D for mechanical machinery and fabrication design users, PU1 was purpose-built with new improvements to empower manufacturing companies and their ability to drive efficiency.
The power and flexibility added with this release
IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite 2022
Product Update #1
Featuring User-Driven Productivity Enhancements that Improve the User Experience in Both 3D and 2D
We’re excited to announce the availability of the IronCAD® 2022 Product Update #1 (PU1), a major extension to the most recent 2022 release. Geared to enhance productivity and the user experience in both 3D and 2D for mechanical machinery and fabrication design users, PU1 was purpose-built with new improvements to empower m
KeyShot not only allows you to create advanced materials and textures with features like 3D Paint, but also provides rich texturing capabilities to add water droplets and condensation. Today, we go in-depth with a texture combination to dial in exactly the water droplet appearance you need for your product visuals.
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KeyShot imports all major 3D file formats and has plugins for many of the most common. Among those is the KeyShot for NX plugin, a premium plugin that allows LiveLinking capability between KeyShot and Siemens NX.
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Product visualization specialist Will Gibbons has just released a new flagship course. The KeyShot Animation Masterclass is now available. The KeyShot Animation Masterclass is a 20-hour self-paced online course that will teach you everything you need to know to make professional-grade product animations. Take advantage of early bird pricing and special launch event bonuses prizes worth hundreds of dollars.
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Next month, Luxion will be deploying a major overhaul of the Customer Support Portal to make it easier for you to avoid common issues, create and track your cases, and share input on feature requests.
We are upgrading our existing support portal and migrating existing support cases into our upgraded system. When you log in, you’ll see new features to help you resolve issues quickly and efficiently.
These changes are part of our long-term efforts to enable customer success with an inte
When we saw that KeyShot 3D Paint has been the most popular of the new features in KeyShot 11, we had to team of with Render Weekly to see how far designers could take it. Over the past two weeks, the Render Weekly x KeyShot 3D Paint Challenge saw over 100 entries that captured the capability of 3D Paint to be used for everything from design elements to adding that extra bit of realistic wear and distress.
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If you need to apply a seamless texture to your product design, but don’t want to jump between programs to do so, there’s a quick way to blend your texture maps seams, without leaving KeyShot.
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We kicked off 2022, joining Yanko Design, for the #DoWhatFloatsYourboAt Design Challenge, receiving submissions from designers around the world. For this challenge, five winning entries were chosen – Gold, Silver, Bronze, a special Student prize, as well as a new Honorable Mention that we added at the last minute because of how amazed we were with the entries! Altogether, we had more than 1500 designers sign up to participate in the challenge submitting nearly 400 entries by the time the competi
