SOLIDWORKS Visualize Reviews & Product Details

It’s great for creating photorealistic renders from CAD models. The real-time preview, easy lighting setup, and material options make it quick to get high-quality results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can get laggy with heavy models, and rendering high-resolution images takes a lot of GPU power. Also, the interface feels a bit limited compared to other advanced rendering tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

With Solidworks Visualize, we are able to create photorealistic renders of our products very quickly. The results are amazing. These rendered images can be used for our website, marketing, and print material. We also can create 360° turntables so customers can view our product from any angle. Rendering with Visualize has allowed us to decrease our rendering time and increase production. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes when we updated to a new service pack with Visualize and Solidworks some of the decals don't transfer over. This can be frustrating after we have spent time setting up certain camera angles and presets for rendering a specific product. Other than that, everything is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

After working for Photo view 360 for a long time, using Solidworks Visualize felt like a paradigm shift. While I spent many days configurating right parameters inside Photoview 360 to make the renderings look good, Solidworks Visualize models did not require even minutes to look good. Just the fact that it was a separate package only made it a blessing.

While rendering used to be an option in my design schedule, it became a prominent element after and during the design phase. It was so intuitive, straightforward, and quick to work with that I even started communicating with the clients using the renders rather than the Solidworks models.

Everything sets up very quickly. I can easily migrate the Solidworks files within the app using its add-on, or I can even import Solidworks assembly file directly inside of Visualize. It automatically links with the file and imports the information back with any update inside of Solidworks. The library has a lot of custom materials, environments and back plates both in the local and cloud library. I can swiftly select which combinations I love the best and make my renderings look good. The viewport can be customized as in Solidworks, and the ability to visualize renderings early on in the viewport and so quickly is such a game changer.

The newly added denoiser inside of Solidworks Visualize is something that I'm in love with right now. It makes the already quick workflow of Solidworks visualize faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While there are many things I like about Visualize, I have specific complaints too, which I hope will be solved soon. Let me list them off:

1. If there were a virtual 3-d grid in the viewport, it would be easier to dolly the camera.

2.If there were a way to figure out the expected time of render before hitting render, it would be easier to select the proper settings for render.

3. Is there any chance I'll get to use node-based shading (as that of Blender) inside Visualize any day?

4. The model tree is not that intuitive.

5. While Visualize is good for quick renderings (both photos and videos) for effective communication, I will not prefer it to Blender if I have to create a product video advertisement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Very easy and intuitive platform for 3D CAD data

- User friendly interface

-Allows data to be viewed in HQ with a few changes and adjustments if needed by the user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Can have more functions which are like easier to find separate task button would be helpful.

- Services can cost a little less if possible.

- Can be more compatible with low-end devices Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fully native assembly import, GPU rendering with RTX acceleration, and the live update to all textures, models, and decals.

Those 3 features I believe is what's keeping Visualize on top of it's game. The results I get from their presets alone are very good, and since they added support for MDL appearances the quality is photo realistic. I also find myself using the live update feature a lot, in my case, i'll forget to add a couple bolts to the 3D model and all I have to do is go into Solidworks, add the bolts, and save the model. When I go back to Visualize, it immediately recognizes that there's been a change and the bolts have been added after re-importing while also retaining all of the appearances in the model.

The animation suite for the pro version of Visualize is simply fantastic, probably the best out there at the moment. You have complete control over every part after you import the model, you can create groups for specific parts you want to animate altogether at the same time. You can also create keyframed animations for all of your parts, while also being able to edit the HDRI environment and appearances, and if your using the 2020 version, you can edit the lights as well.

The new Denoising restructure works beautifully, it's an absolute miracle with how well it works. I'm going from 1200 passes on average to about 500 passes and saving a TON of time while at the same time not seeing any downgrade in image quality. I can't imagine not using the denoising feature anymore and it becomes a snooze fest when I needed to go back to 2018 while awaiting for my pro license of the 2020 version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For some reason, the displacement maps don't work for visualize, and haven't worked for the past. To get it to work, you have to crank up the resolution of your geometry to an absurd level, i'm talking tens of millions of polygons, and even then it barely does much to actually displace the geometry correctly according to the texture your using, and it doesn't matter what type of displacement map it is from what iv'e seen. At this point, they NEED to get this sorted out and fixed because for some people, they want to be able to render things such as trees, ground (including sand, snow, dirt etc.), specific metal types such as diamond plated steel, and others I can't quite name at the moment.

The program seems to crash for no reason sometimes. Once I tried opening the dropdown menu for the 'Help' option on the top of the window and it crashed immediately after clicking the button. Most of the crashes occur when i'm either switching from preview to accurate or the other way around, and switching tabs on the right hand window. I'm unsure why it is so buggy and unstable after 4ish years of updates and enhanced speeds.

Inconsistent performance at times leaves me slouching on my seat waiting instead of actually working. My PC will be dominating visualize, averaging about 15 passes per second on accurate rendering, then after I edit a materials color or roughness, it will just die down to about 6 passes per second all the sudden. I can validate my PC is correctly functioning as it is newly built just for visualize. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

there are lots of software available for mechanical design but the solid works is the leader of all those applications software. i really like its feature of selecting material and differentiating material visualization its precision. ease of use user friendly and the most important you will enjoy while working on solid works. 3D feature is so cool. Key board and mouse controlling is best. Shortcut for functions. i love this application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

high configuration required for the system. but i understand this application is holding too much functions so it's ok Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

With SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard you no longer need to compromise your marketing and presentation materials by relying on screen grabs, or a budget for costly photographs of prototypes, to show your latest product. With SOLIDWORKS Visualize, you can quickly and easily create lifelike photo-quality images, a mood board of different colors and finishes, high-resolution images ready for print and the web and technical illustrations of key features.

Designs can import various CAD formats such as SOLIDWORKS, IGES, STEP, Parasolid, and files from Pro/E, Rhino, SolidEdge, Inventor, and much more.

“Easy Mode” user interface option allows users to render by just dragging and dropping in the appearances to “paint” the model, place the desired environment.

Incorporate professional texture maps and pull from an expansive cloud library of materials and environments.

Users can accelerate renderings when paired with a powerful NVIDIA GPU (or even multiple GPUs!) beyond what is possible in just a CPU based renderer.

Designers can import HDRI images or use existing HDRIs from the library to provide accurate scene-driven lighting.

Users can utilize prop creation for additional light sources in their designs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Solidworks tends to focus on a more industrial side to things. Its PV360 and Visualize programs are designed for providing quick concept images (PV360 in particular). Visualize however is a much more advanced version which can provide highly detailed models on Par with Keyshot. Keyshot tends to focus highly on it's photorealistic capabilities, having a highly complex materials system which leads to accurately represented complex finishes/materials. Keyshot also has flexible import systems/plugins which can allow you to easily import Solidworks files into its program.

Based on your product.if you are doing render for visualizing purpose only SW is enough.you want to more realistic go to Keyshot. But sometimes SW rendering looks like keyshot.i seen some legends model in grabcad and real time those are using SW only that models are looking cool.you are beginner SW is enough. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I am the fan of it's precision and visualization. Mouse and keyboard controlling is to good. To support users there are some preinstalled examples. It supports the concept of modularity. designs are reusable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

hangs a lot with my system. even i am having 8GB RAM still facing same issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Solid works is known for it's cad and this product can sometimes be overlooked but it is truly genius, the interface is gorgeous and user-friendly and I've never had trouble finding the option I need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Might be difficult for someone without a CAD background to operate but other than that, nothing at all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Real time GPU rendering and seamless import from Solidworks native files are the biggest advantages of this package. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Software works completely unpredictable and crashes frequently. Working with it is a total pain. Some features work in complete random manner. Some features don't work at all (like displacement mapping). I've spent many hours with this software (since 2017 Standard) and I definetely don't reccomend buying a Pro version. Service Packs and new releases doesn't seem to bring much. Pricing for a Pro version is a joke.

In theory Visualise should allow fast workflow and easy learining curve. In practice you spend long hours fighting with software bugs, finding workarounds, recovering from unpredictable crashes etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.