True to our mission to continuously innovate our solutions, our rendering technology has evolved over the years to meet customer and market demand, culminating in the latest version of the SOLIDWORKS Visualize products. SOLIDWORKS Visualize is our most advanced rendering product line, helping you streamline photo-quality content creation, including images, animations, interactive web content, and immersive Virtual Reality, by leveraging your 3D CAD data. SOLIDWORKS Visualize delivers a fast, easy and fun way to produce photo-quality images thereby helping you cut costs and accelerate time-to-market with compelling imagery.

NEMO sub photo rendering created by SOLIDWORKS Visualize

As a result, starting with SOLIDWORKS 2024 SP0 which will be released in November 2023, the PhotoView 360 add-in will no longer be included with SOLIDWORKS Office, SOLIDWORKS Professional, and SOLIDWORKS Premium.

All subscription customers using SOLIDWORKS Professional or Premium already have access to the advanced rendering capabilities provided by SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard.

If you use SOLIDWORKS Office or if you have purchased the individual PhotoView 360 product to use with SOLIDWORKS Standard, please contact your local reseller for alternative rendering solutions.

If you are interested in an even more powerful rendering solution, you may want to try SOLIDWORKS Visualize Professional.

We apologize for any inconvenience this change may cause and know you will benefit from the increased rendering power provided by SOLIDWORKS Visualize.

This change does not impact current and future users of 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Professional and Premium which include the SOLIDWORKS Visualize Connected app offering the same functionality as SOLIDWORKS Visualize Professional.

The key advantages of using SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard compared to PhotoView 360 include:

  • Denoiser capability – Speed up rendering by as much as 10x using machine learning to filter out noise from unfinished and noisy images thereby reducing the number of passes required to create a final render.
  • Performance scaling – Increase rendering performance by taking full advantage of your advanced GPU.
  • Faster viewport rendering – Increase speed and leverage instantaneous feedback when changing lightning, materials, and more.
  • Concurrent workflow - Create renderings separate from your SOLIDWORKS CAD solution so that other team members can render while you continue your design work, enabling concurrent design and image creation.
NEMO sub rendering by SOLIDWORKS Visualize

Learn more about SOLIDWORKS Visualize. For installation steps, click here. If you have any questions, please contact your local reseller.