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Craig Makarowski

The development of graphics cards means that programs such as Vizualize will become obsolete. Today, you can cope without outsourcing to external companies to obtain good renderings. Recently I bought Twinmotion and... MASTER! (the some stable as UNREAL) The program is childishly easy to use, has a...

Craig Makarowski

This building and teh Generators , control panel were all modeled in SolidWorks and imported into Unreal 5.3
still a work in progress

Craig Makarowski

Some SolidWorks Modeling of a railroad Signal then rendered in Unreal 5.3

Craig Makarowski

Here is a few of my Unreal town project, about 15% of the models are made in SolidWork. I'm using Unreal 5.3 now and PCG feature as well. There are about 135,00 objects in the scene now and 1.4 billion Polygons now!! Town overview 384572347_10162863786246978_6107230418415909096_n.jpg A Procedural Co...

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I have been using dual 43" 4K TV for about 4 years now and will never go back, I Find the LG Tv has good color as I also use them with Unreal 5.3 Note any TV larger than about 43" will mean that you have to move it farther away and most likely off the Desk or your neck will suffer a lot of...

Craig Makarowski

Would be nice for assemblies too

Craig Makarowski

Hi @Craig Makarowski, See code below. 2023-11-24-01-16-35.gif Option Explicit Sub main() Dim swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks Dim swDoc As SldWorks.ModelDoc2 Dim swFeat As SldWorks.Feature Dim R() As Double, G() As Double, B() As Double Dim vMatVal(8) As Double Dim i As Long: i = -1 Set swApp = Applicati...

Craig Makarowski

Thank you very much that works excellent!!

Craig Makarowski

Hi All I 'm not sure where to look on how to Add a unique color to each Feature in a part, the reason is that when i export the part to Unreal it would then allow me to assign Unreal texture a lot more easier, This would also be useful with surfaces on the part. It has been a while since i made some...

Craig Makarowski

some new stuff done in Unreal 5.2 using the SolidWorks files & Creo files imported using the Datasmith importer in Unreal

Craig Makarowski

Have been doing some simple exploded assembly animations in Blender, it is much more friendly than SW if you know the basics. It is also better to add notes, photos, paint etc. The learning curve is quite long for a CAD user tho. tu Hi Lucas Good news Blender4.0 is going to have some Nice Cad tools...

Craig Makarowski

Unreal 5 has direct import of SolidWorks and several other Cad types as well, and you can sign up for free to use it in house. It does real time Rendering. You use the Datasmith tool to import the Cad files and assemblies, there are Plugins that stream line this but SolidWorks always seams to lag a ...

Craig Makarowski

here are a few of my latest projects designed in SolidWorks and rendered in Unreal 5

Craig Makarowski

what i have found is that i started with SW2021 maker which was fine and was importing the SLDprt file into Unreal just fine then the Maker version updated to 2022 and now I have to convert to Step files to import into Unreal a little bummed about this that SolidWorks forces oen tothe newest verion ...

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the scary thing of whty i'm still on SW2018 SP5 is that to jump to SW 2021 SP5.1 requires that i Update the License server from Windows Server 2012 to a minimum of 2016, and work doesn't want to, so I stuck in the dark ages here. This is all to do with being able to update PDM standard as well. so i...

Craig Makarowski

So i asked over at SWYM and a fellow helped me test the files from the Maker version with Unreal, the Part and Assembly files do not import with the Unreal DataSmith tool. My guess is the digital water mark that they added to the Maker version of SolidWorks is the reason. But all the neutral file ex...

Craig Makarowski

JuTu I use both Blender and Unreal as they both are free to use. there are things in Blender i like but the user interface requires more learning for sure at the simple level. But once your familiar with it it is a really good tool. The render is getting a lot of updates too. I do believe that in ve...

Craig Makarowski

Thank you for explaining this @Craig Makarowski. FYI, there is a training bundle which is on sale this week for only $15 USD. This normally costs unclearly more. The Unreal & Unity Game Development for Beginners Bundle I haven't tried it. I don't know if it would help a novice towards what Crai...

Craig Makarowski

@BuseHase and @Craig Makarowski, You guys have any tutorials you could point us to? I occasionally have a need for renderings, but don't know where to get started with Unreal. Hi Matt, here is a really good Youtube channel he does a really good explanations. Some of these tutorials are long!!! good...

Craig Makarowski

I found this work over my VPN to work with Remote desktop quite nicely. pockybum522 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 21, 2020 9:49 am Here's what finally worked for me when I was in the same boat of it wouldn't show up in the RDP Local resources section no matter what I did. It looks like a new windows update may ha...

Craig Makarowski

Has anyone working from home tried this? Here is a link to another forum on the subject https://forum.3dconnexion.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=2661&start=120#p78416 Also a low cost Solution as well Haven't tried it yet. this one is $49 USD https://virtualhere.com/home Other Comercial solutions a...

Craig Makarowski

Thank you for explaining this @Craig Makarowski. FYI, there is a training bundle which is on sale this week for only $15 USD. This normally costs unclearly more. The Unreal & Unity Game Development for Beginners Bundle I haven't tried it. I don't know if it would help a novice towards what Crai...

Craig Makarowski

Maybe they are replacing it with this CoDesigner product? https://www.altium.com/documentation/altium-designer/direct-ecad-mcad-design-with-altium-codesigner-ad#!installing-and-configuring-codesigner-in-solidworks Yes it looks like Altium is has this under their Altium 365 Cloud service but you hav...

Craig Makarowski

My renderings are done in Visualize the models created in SolidWorks Visualize is a great tool, but Unreal is much more it can work with live video streams, and Gaming play Web control and many things more. The UNreall 5.0 early preview is stunning and when it goes prime time next summer it will be...

Craig Makarowski

@BuseHase and @Craig Makarowski, You guys have any tutorials you could point us to? I occasionally have a need for renderings, but don't know where to get started with Unreal. Hi Matt, first one has to download Unreal engine (FREE) and lots of disk space! ( 9 to 20 gigs) once you have it installed ...

Craig Makarowski

Anyone tried the Solidworks Maker online product? they charge $99usd for it yearly.
I'm wondering if one can send the model to Unreal Datasmith importer.
I know you can't share the files with regular Solidworks or so they say.

Craig Makarowski

Well I'm not happy as SolidWorks just announced that they and Altium are discontinuing this Tool/add in. We here at Dycor have been using both tools even more and to have this happen is disheartening to say the least. Which means our collabration between PCB design and MCad design will be more work ...

Craig Makarowski

this is a model of the desk that i made in SolidWorks and brought into Unreal 4.26 Also the Door frames in the entrance as well. 97091724_10159710192226978_2053220115264045056_o.jpg Here is a Unreal 5 render 212736785_10160934209036978_2466920184905059519_n.jpg I'm working on a new model in SW but h...

Craig Makarowski

Sorry for the late reply, it has been a crazy summer for me, I think there are a few ways to get data into Unreal from Google maps but haven't tried. I bet there are tutorials on Youtube about that. Unreal has a large amount of active users and Youtube community is very large with tutorials that are...

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Modeled in Solidworks and added to Unreal engine 5.0 Preview

and the full scene

Craig Makarowski

No Longer bother with Rendering an image as I now import the Solidworks Models directly into Unreal 4.26 and Unreal 5 early release for real time Rendering!

Here is an Example

Craig Makarowski

Uh! You do realize that the current crop of active volcanos are already doing this as we speak, what i want to know is how many plane flight have been affected in areas of volcanic activity?

Craig Makarowski

Yes My attachments aren't working either as i had udated them last week. Oh well

Craig Makarowski

well I went over there to see and not much has changed IMHO still very hard to find anything
Tags sheese!!!!

Craig Makarowski

Well I tried Alibre Cad demo to day , they have spring sale for 149usd for the basic level. The cool thing is it imports SolidWorks 2018 assemblies and parts just fine so far. I was looking for an alternate just in case my Home license blows up for SolidWorks!! and I want something better than freec...

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well i got a bunch of captures into my one note of stuff i wanted to save, what a loss of good information.

Thanks to all that contributed over there you are awesome , hope to see you here!

Craig Makarowski

I think you got eh last message Christian, because i go the notification at 4:34 pm but My browser no longer see the site!
It is gone me thinks!!

Craig Makarowski

We need to categories here one for PDM standard and one for PDM professional. Even though they are compatible there are a lot of stuff that doesn't apply to PDM standard, Where as in PDM Professional the sky is the limit if you can afford it. I set up PDM standard all on my own with because i didn't...

Craig Makarowski

Get this i got a message saying I'm an Author but still can 't do anything over there, what a confusing Web interface on 3DSSYM, not even worth the time to use. Worst interface ever seen, I can even make a better web site with Wordpress!! So i voted for this site over there!!

Craig Makarowski

2021-03-24 19_23_56-OWEN_Town2 - Unreal Editor.jpg Craig, How does it compare with Visualize and KeyShot? Any experience with them? Honestly, I fell in and out of love with Visualize. I have an NVIDIA Quadro RTX4000 and after doing near-real-time rendering workflow, I just can't go back to PhotoVie...

Craig Makarowski

Ömür Tokman wrote: ↑Sat Mar 20, 2021 7:39 am iksel.jpg

Very Nice glad to see another user using Pro Render plugin

Craig Makarowski

For even one user I set up a second machine as a simple server (just Windows 10 Professional on it) then installed PDM standard on it with out paying any install help other than talking to my Var support. It comes with the SolidWorks Professional and Premium licenses. The advantage is you get to che...

Craig Makarowski

Not sure if i posted in this thread. But glad to be here and Matt you are awesome!

Hope we get a bunch more of the members to come over here and start filling up space with good information.
woo hoo!!

Craig Makarowski

thanks for the information, I use Blender and Unreal 4 for rendering and have used Cinema4D and lightwave.
Not that i use Sub D as much as i should!

Craig Makarowski

I prefer Remote desktop over VPN that way all the company assets stay at work, besides the pdm standard vault library is now around 6gigabytes now not including Projects and Products folders. The only real pain is that the vpn doesn't support the 3D connexion devices in Remote desktop so i have to b...

Craig Makarowski

Still using SW2018 and SW2019, Can't move to SW2020 or higher because the PDM needs Newer Server Microsoft license upgrade which costs money!!
among other stuff I usually wait till SP 3 or higher which is usually August September. Also Upgrading PDM is also a bunch of work too!!

Craig Makarowski

Portable Equipment stand designed in Solidworks 2018 and Rendered in side UNREAL engine 4.25

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josh wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 1:23 pm sub main()
application.sldworks.activedoc.extension.custompropertybuildertemplate(false) = "whatever.prtprp"
end sub

wow that was fast and thank you very much!!!

Craig Makarowski

Very nice work! Never heard of that add-in before. AMD provides the Plugin for free for those who use the WX series of PRo render video cards AMD makes and it allows GPU rendering similar to Nvidia The nice thing about the AMD video cards in this series is they are all Certified for SolidWorks!! 20...

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AMD provides the Plugin for free for those who use the WX series of PRo render video cards AMD makes and it allows GPU rendering similar to Nvidia
The nice thing about the AMD video cards in this series is they are all Certified for SolidWorks!!

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