| PhotoWorks | |
| Developer: | Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corporation |
| Genre: | raytrace, rendering |
PhotoWorks is a raytrace rendering program created by Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corporation, formerly supplied as a photorealistic rendering add-in for SolidWorks. The program is based on the Mental Ray rendering engine. It has a library of scenes and materials that can be used with user-created SolidWorks files to create still frame images within the SolidWorks GUI.
Since the 2011 release of SolidWorks, PhotoWorks has been replaced by the PhotoView 360 rendering utility.[1] A 2010 review comparing PhotoWorks with three other rendering programs for SolidWorks (including PhotoView 360) gave the program high marks for render speed and built-in materials, but low marks for realism and user interface.[2]
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