SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2025 - What's New
There are some great new quality and performance enhancements to SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2025.
First, Visualize Boost now offers a more user-friendly interface that allows you to use multiple machines for your rendering tasks. With greater stability and machine discovery that has been made easier, you will now be able to set up an impressive rendering farm in no time at all.
There are times when a plain background is requested but without the shadow on the floor. In the past, you could always turn the ground catcher off, resulting in the removal of the ground shadow - but you'd lose the shadows at the bottom of the render as well.
With the new fade option on the Ground Shadow Catcher, you can remove the shadows on the ground while preserving the shadows on the rendered objects.
Fast Render Mode
Fast render mode has been added to the Stellar Rendering Engine. Previously, only Preview and Accurate modes were available.
Using the Vulkan Ray Tracing API, fast mode can give you real-time interactive renderings to get a better feel for your final render results. Shadows and reflections are more accurate than in preview mode, reducing the amount of time waiting for accurate mode to fully render.
Discontinuation of NVIDIA Iray Support
As of 2025, support for the NVIDIA Iray has been discontinued.
The Stellar physically correct engine will now be the default rendering engine.
Older projects done in the NVIDIA render engine will be translated over to Stellar when opened in SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2025.
New API Features for User Functionality
Finally, SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2025 now has an API capable of allowing users to create functionality.
Render SOLIDWORKS documents directly or convert them over to Visualize projects automatically. Users can see what's available by going to help and API help to get started with automation.
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