PowerToys for Solid Edge – Windows 7 Release

Well, what can I say… It’s been a while! Things have been busy of late and I just haven’t been able to justify spending time blogging. It has taken something pretty special to get me out of semi-retirement – this is it.

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Bunkspeed HyperMove rendering option

With the temporary absence of a dedicated rendering solution in the Bunkspeed line-up some have been enticed by generous discounts on their more expensive animation product – HyperMove. See below an image submitted by Roger Reid, Rogers comments also:
This is a render I did for a customer yesterday who wanted to get an idea of the sizing and placement of a new logo.  I modeled the head and tuning pegs in SE and rendered in Move.  The HDRi was a free download as was the maple texture.  The strength of Move in this case was the ease of applying the decals – a pain in VS+.

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Free Studio Style HDR Images

If you like the look of the hypershot/keyshot default studio environment you might like some of the free HDRI’s available from this site. Some are better than others but there are plenty to choose from, 28 to be precise. See below examples rendered in SE VS+ using ‘piece-s2-27.hdr’ from the downloaded HDR pack and ‘studio.hdr’ that ships with keyshot.…
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