Global illumination provides advanced technologies for calculating indirect illumination, enabling accurate lighting simulation and increased realism. SolidThinking offers global illumination, allowing visualization of a virtual design, and it imparts the benefits of keyframe animation and rotation. Alessandro Mazzardo, VP of product strategy and marketing, solidThinking This capability frees users from typical design constraints and even provides the ability to interactively switch from parameters manipulation to control points direct editing of an object - without worrying about breaking the model history.” “solidThinking’s Construction Tree technology uniquely delivers unlimited fluid interactivity with the design model allowing the user to evaluate any design alternative in real time. Plus, it lets you produce high-quality photorealistic 3D renderings and explore colors and finishes with ease, according to the company. The company says solidThinking sets a new productivity standard for product design and presentation, as it integrates completely with CAD/CAM/CAE systems, providing editing flexibility, accuracy, and simultaneous parameter and control-point editing. (Troy, MI), offers an updated rendering engine, a streamlined user interface, photorealistic content functionality, and user-centric tools that ultimately shorten the product-development cycle by reducing physical prototypes and avoiding the need to reinterpret designs between designers and engineers.

The global rollout, which follows the company’s recent acquisition by Altair Engineering, Inc. (Troy, MI), an industrial design company whose software of the same name enables product designers to capture, explore, visualize, and present their ideas in 3D, is launching version 7.6, its latest version for Windows and Mac users.

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