Rendering animations on Solidworks?

[Lord_Karango17]

Hey,

 

In our design class, we had to disassemble an engine and model each of the parts. For the final presentation, i wanted to be all fancy and do a render of an animations where the engine is in motions (crank is rotating, etc), but a single frame took 3+ mins.

 

tldr: Is there a way for me to render animations that wont take years on my cpu?

[werto165]

I don't personally use solidworks but I use inventor, are you sure that there isn't some sort of resolution setting? Is it done with ray tracing or some shit, that seems like a longggg time. 

[Lord_Karango17]

@werto165

There are options for resolution, but it was already set at 720p.

 

The issue is worsened by my idea, because I wanted to show which part each person did, but making the rest of the parts glass. I take it that glass is not a very easy thing to render...

[erty176]

@werto165

There are options for resolution, but it was already set at 720p.

 

The issue is worsened by my idea, because I wanted to show which part each person did, but making the rest of the parts glass. I take it that glass is not a very easy thing to render...

Solidworks is very CPU intensive. The only real way to change render time is get a better CPU unfortunately. And yes, glass and Solidworks are not the best of friends. The easiest way to show that it all works together is to make a part that you can move. Solidworks assumes that the parts around it move based on that and if you click and drag a component around in say a circle like a crankshaft, Solidworks will make the pistons move, assuming you did your mates right.

[Lord_Karango17]

Solidworks is very CPU intensive. The only real way to change render time is get a better CPU unfortunately. And yes, glass and Solidworks are not the best of friends. The easiest way to show that it all works together is to make a part that you can move. Solidworks assumes that the parts around it move based on that and if you click and drag a component around in say a circle like a crankshaft, Solidworks will make the pistons move, assuming you did your mates right.

Yeah, all the mates are fine, and I put a motor on the crank so the internals move. Its just the rendering part thats the issue.

 

So far, I just rendered the solidworks window, for the animation. I settled on images for everything else because the rendering look really nice.

[erty176]

Yeah, all the mates are fine, and I put a motor on the crank so the internals move. Its just the rendering part thats the issue.

 

So far, I just rendered the solidworks window, for the animation. I settled on images for everything else because the rendering look really nice.

Yeah for one of my school projects I had to render an entire vehicle in motion. It took forever and a day, even on a really nice computer.

[Lord_Karango17]

Yeah for one of my school projects I had to render an entire vehicle in motion. It took forever and a day, even on a really nice computer.

Yeah, not being able to render the animation is a bummer, but the integrated renders came out quite nice...

[erty176]

Yeah, not being able to render the animation is a bummer, but the integrated renders came out quite nice...

Very nice! Here is a picture of flow simulation that I had to do. 

[Lord_Karango17]

Very nice! Here is a picture of flow simulation that I had to do. 

Damn, that looks cool.

 

Getting used to solidworks after using spaceclaim for the past 3 years was a real pain, but its so worth it. So much functionality.

[erty176]

Damn, that looks cool.

 

Getting used to solidworks after using spaceclaim for the past 3 years was a real pain, but its so worth it. So much functionality.

Yeah. I use NX mostly when I'm working on things. It's slightly harder to learn but has even more functionality. Solidworks is a good in between.