Today, we have a quick tip to help you create clean, crisp product shots. It's from a question we get a lot: How do I get a super nice, all white backgrounds for my renderings. Well, there are two ways to do it. Let's have a look.
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When you’re working with KeyShot RealCloth, you may eventually want to explore more custom weave patterns. While KeyShot comes with some handy presets for applying weave patterns, KeyShot Pro offers the ability to easily customize these weave patterns.
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We’re thrilled to announce our partnership with Yanko Design for our first joint Design Challenge! The premier YDxKeyShot Design Challenge has a broad brief and some exciting prizes! Your mission, should you choose, is to add your own spin to the ENVOY Helmet to make it safer. You can find images of the ENVOY Helmet below, and use this link to download the ENVOY Helmet 3D file for free.
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Post-processing (editing) a rendering can be useful for many reasons. You may want to tweak the contrast, add some bloom or a vignette, or even change background colors and add frontplates. KeyShot allows you to do that prior to rendering but also after you have rendered your scene, along with creating multiple versions. Let's have a look.
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If you’re trying to add some depth to a logo or label in KeyShot, but don’t have the geometry of the graphic modeled on your part, you can easily create the illusion of an embossed or debossed graphic by using a simple bump map.
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Cloud computing is a rapidly growing solution for issues related to data storage and collaboration. Cloud collaboration is a method of collaboration where multiple individuals may access, review and edit a document over the cloud from any location typically on any device.
IronCAD has recently launched the Synergy Platform. This advancement in the way we store and share data has led to a number of benefits that allow IronCAD users to connect and work collectively as a team – and efficiently
If you haven't taken the opportunity to browse KeyShot Cloud for materials or other assets, now is a great time. We occasionally upload high quality materials, textures, and models used on our quick tips, but there are some KeyShot users who also share really amazing materials. Today, we're highlighting a set of unique AxF materials created by Philip Feilhaber at KeyShot reseller, KeySoft.
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With USDz and GLB export from KeyShot, there are a lot of ways to experience your 3D models. One common method is to share them with a QR code. The person uses the camera on their mobile device to scan the QR code which opens a link and (on modern mobile devices) displays the 3D model right on the screen. Today, we'll show you how to do this.
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We were honored to jointly sponsor the Core77 Design Awards with Stratasys this year. With so many talented designers and teams, and many memorable designs, this was an incredibly challenging design award to single out one winner. What made the Core77 Design Awards unique is the detail that each team provided about how they used KeyShot in the process and what challenges KeyShot helped solve. In the end, we selected three for a variety of reasons but, in the end, had to make one selection to tak
KeyShot has an array of lighting capabilities from simple drag-and-drop HDRI lighting to physical lights, along with lighting presets to get you started and a Light Manager to make controlling your scene lighting easy. KeyShot also has rich volumetric lighting capabilities that allow you to create light rays (god rays) or lights shining through a hazy scene. Today, we'll show how it's done using KeyShot's Scattering Medium and Spotlights.
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Here are some quick tips for creating drawing files quickly from your large assembly files:
IronCAD can create drawings that exclude hidden objects from the creation process. Simply hide the parts you don't want to show in a drawing and select the create drawing button. The following Prompt will appear:
This tool is asking if you want to show the parts that you have hidden in your drawing file, selecting Yes will show the hidden parts in the drawing, and selecting no will l
The Mesh Simplification tool in KeyShot Pro allows you to quickly reduce the triangle counts of your mesh-based models. Here, we'll take a look at how to access and use it along with some tips on how to control the mesh quality.
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The Delft Hyperloop is a climate-neutral, scalable Hyperloop system designed to transport passengers at speeds over 620 mph (1000 km/h). Over the past six months, the Delft University of Technology DH05 team has worked toward proving the technical and commercial viability of the Hyperloop concept. Part of this was the completion of a full-scale pod design. This month, it was successfully presented at European Hyperloop Week in Valencia, Spain.
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KeyShot Pro comes with many geometry tools to manage and work with your imported models. One of those is the Split Object Surface Tool. Today, we'll look at the tool and the Paint Selection feature for quick selection and splitting of model surfaces.
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KeyVR Connect is a new feature that allows you and your team to join the same virtual scene where you can collaborate and make design decisions in real time, from anywhere. If you're new to KeyVR, it's a way to go from your KeyShot scene to a VR environment with a single-click. It's made for designers, requires no coding, and is the easiest way to go from 3D to VR. You can find out more and try it at keyshot.com/keyvr/. Now let’s get started!
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A Powerful New Collaboration Platform, Improving Design and Data Management for Users
(Atlanta, GA) July 13th, 2021 –IronCAD today introduces SYNERGY Platform, a powerful new cloud-based collaboration platform from the leader in design productivity of 3D CAD solutions. The IronCAD SYNERGY Platform creates a newfound synergy between design and sales teams to store, configure, share, manage, and view design data with team members and external clients, all in one place.
The SYNERGY
KeyShot exclusive Axalta’s coatings have been an incredible resource for renderings of all kinds. Whether transportation-related or product-related, the array of hot hues and other color options can add just the snap of color needed with a simple drag-and-drop.
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IronCAD, the leading provider of design productivity solutions, today announced the immediate availability of the latest version of its fully integrated Multiphysics for IronCAD (MPIC). Since the unveiling of Multiphysics for IronCAD, the usability and robustness of MPIC have been appreciated by many users. Each year, additional improvements and refinement have been added to further increase the ease of use and functionality. Most of these new features are based on user feedback and request to
Today, we're excited to bring you the latest release of KeyVR that introduces new multi-user sessions with KeyVR Connect along with new augmented reality and environment control capabilities for the creation of interactive product experiences.
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Luxion and Stratasys continue to lead the way in how designers, engineers, and innovators use 3D rendering and 3D printing to solve complex design challenges. In product development, time is money. That’s why Stratasys and Luxion collaborated to create a streamlined digital to physical workflow. Designers can now go from concept ideation and sketch to visualization and render to putting full, CMF detailed design models in stakeholders’ hands, faster than ever before. And now, we're bringing the
Today, we release KeyShot 10.2. We've introduced some great new features with KeyShot 10 and the updates with KeyShot 10.2 round out the focus with KeyShot 10 in the areas of materials, geometry, and workflow. Across each of these, improvements in performance and usage have remained a priority.
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One of the quickest and easiest ways to give your product or vehicle renderings more realism is to add presence in your scenes by setting them on a surface and adding a nice shadow or ground reflection.
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