The 4 th and may only be an optional step is that your model could change. Once you’re done here, it’s time to render it or send it to the render queue. Those options are limitless and let your imagination go crazy. Could be modifying the lighting, colors or textures. The 3 rd step is to add any kind of Visualize enhancement to our model. Once decide on one of the options we can export this out, Visualize opens and it includes our motion keyframes. If you have Visualize Professional and the model includes a motion study, the Select Motion Study dialog box lets you save or not save the motion study, or save only the camera motion. You can use this option to export the model to other users who do not have SOLIDWORKS installed on their computer.Ĭlick Save Advanced and specify a directory in which to save the model. This option saves a copy of your active model and motion studies to a specific location, so you can import the model into SOLIDWORKS Visualize.
Click Update and confirm that you want to reimport the model into SOLIDWORKS Visualize and update it. This option exports the latest version of your active model and triggers an update in Visualize. This option gives you more flexibility if you update your model often.Ĭlick Export Advanced to save a copy of your active model with Automatic mode part grouping and Monitor File enabled. To achieve faster rendering, it minimizes the number of parts in the Visualize Scene Tree.Ĭlick Export Simple to save a copy of the active model and load it into SOLIDWORKS Visualize using Appearance mode part grouping. This option provides you with the fastest way to paint and take photos of a model you created in SOLIDWORKS. Under the Visualize tab, we get a few options In order to do this, we will turn on our Visualize add-in under TOOLS> Add-ins. The wizard does the rest and puts in the keyframes. In this case, we are starting it at 0 seconds and running it for 14 seconds. It will ask how long you want to make the video and when to start it. Once you click that, the wizard will prompt you. The motion study has a wizard that will convert your exploded steps into a motion study. So navigate to the motion study Tab on the bottom left of the feature manager. The 1 st step is to convert your exploded view into a motion study. Thank you.So you went through a lot of effort to get your exploded view perfect in SOLIDWORKS, but what could be the next big thing that sets your project apart from others? For starters, you could make a high-quality video of it in Visualize with very little work. So hopefully this little trick can help you make some fantastic exploded views in SOLIDWORKS 2013. In either case, the jog is following the axis during the creation, and you can even press and release Tab while sketching the Jog and it will cycle through options as well in 2013. Pretty cool huh? So this allows you to achieve different directions for this Jog to match your desired intent: This was achieved by pressing and releasing the Tab key just like in any other 3D Sketch mode inside of SolidWorks. In image 2, I show a different axis of -Y, +Z:Īnd in image 3, I show yet another solution of axis +X, -Y: For example, in screen shot 1, I show a default Axis of -X, -Y: This process is pretty straight forward but there may be a time when you want to jog following a different axis rather than the one it defaults to. One new trick that I recently stumbled upon is that from time to time you may need to add a jog in your Exploded Line Sketches to avoid some other exploded parts. Assembly Exploded Views have been a part of SolidWorks for many releases now.