Solidworks Photoview 360 Not Available

[Octavis Uberstine]

Iam using solidworks 2011 and when creating a preview of the final render of a scene set up looking through a camera i am faced with a preview window which looks as if it has took a render of a wall and the window is blank? anybody come across this problem before and know what it may be?

Are you using a standard scene or have you setup your own using lights? If you have setup your own scene with your own lights you have to be sure and check the box(on in photoview) because the lights won't automatically be on. If you can give me a bit more info i can help you out.

You need to render the image to have it as you want. Unfortunately rendering option is not available in the student edition, therefore if your is a student edition there is no way to obtain that effect, no matter the material you assign.

If it is not a student version look for the rendering command. It could take from few seconds to even hours to render the image according to its size and complexity. In your case it will not take long

go into the appearance options where you can add cameras and lights and make sure your lights are set to "on in photoview 360". That drove me insane for a long while before I figured out that's why my renders came out so dull looking. If they're still not bright and shiny enough add another light and focus it the way you want it and do a low quality render to see if it's giving the effect you want before you let it render for hours on one of the higher quality settings.

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