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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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I stumbled across these articles recently while looking for something else at the Lightworks user website. The articles are specific to NXRender but apply equally, in theory if not practice, to VS+ in Solid Edge. There are some very important general rendering and visualisation concepts covered as well.…

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In the last post I questioned the availability of the MS Office file property handler on systems without MS Office installed. I just discovered that there is a default OLE Document property handler that ships with windows (7 at least) that will do the same thing, in fact I will use this on my system instead of the MS Office one. So from the last post just replace all references to:

{97e467b4-98c6-4f19-9588-161b7773d6f6}

with:

{8d80504a-0826-40c5-97e1-ebc68f953792}

and it will work just the same but without any dependence on MS Office.…

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The Problem

Some Solid Edge users may have noticed that in moving from Windows XP to Vista or 7 that the document property columns in windows explorer do not display information about SE files as they once did. This is not due to any changes in SE but rather a change in the way properties are dealt with from XP to the newer OS’s.…

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This post was going to be about replicating the default Hypershot ‘studio’ environment in SE VS+ but two important things happened:

1. Hypershot is no longer. Luxion, developers of the render engine behind Hypershot, has pulled it’s render engine from Bunkspeed who are now using Mental images’ iRay solution.
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Note: I am still off topic in this post. If you are waiting for the follow on to tutorial 4, hang in there I’ll get to it.

Global Environment

In the first tutorial I showed how the environment shader can be used for the lighting and background of a render.…

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Note: This post was meant to follow on from the last however a post on the SE forum prompted a temporary detour. I’m going to back up a little and get back to some basics.

VS+ Settings – a closer look

To activate the VS+ you must first enter the ERA environment before performing an area or full scene render.…

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Templates

The use of templates should be a familiar practice to everyone who uses Solid Edge. Templates are used as a common platform for creating new assembly, part and draft files: they can also be used as a jump start with rendering tasks as well. Assembly templates can be saved with your favourite VS+ settings intact allowing you to fast track your rendering projects.…

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