• Unlock the full power of SolidWorks® design tools with the helpful instructions and tips available only from technical training experts on staff with SolidWorks Corporation.
  
• Build your skills and confidence quickly with 45 easy-to-understand tutorials and practice exercises, each building upon the previous lesson.
  
• Reinforce your new skills with the accompanying CD, which features time-saving project files for tutorials and practice exercises.
  
• Learn at your own pace - review each lesson as often as you want or quickly move on to the next lesson.
  
• Follow along with more than 1000 full-color images and screen captures that serve as easy-to-understand visual cues.

Prerequisites: SolidWorks Essentials: Parts and Assemblies

• Chapter 1: Introduction
  
  
  
  • About This Book
    
  • What is Photorealistic Rendering?
    
  • Right Brain Versus Left Brain
    
  • What's This Book About?
    
  • Cameras
    
  • Rendering Results
    
  • PhotoWorks®
  
  
• Chapter 2: Getting Started
  
  
  
  • What is the PhotoWorks Software?
    
  • Starting PhotoWorks
    
  • PhotoWorks User Interface
    
  • Getting Help
    
  • Options
  
  
• Chapter 3: Basic Part Rendering
  
  
  
  • PhotoWorks Rendering
    
  • Materials
    
  • PhotoWorks Scenes
    
  • PhotoWorks Material Editor
    
  • Rendering
    
  • Sub-image Rendering
    
  • PhotoWorks Scene Editor
    
  • Editing PhotoWorks Properties
    
  • Monitor Corrections
  
  
• Chapter 4: Textures and Scenes
  
  
  
  • Introduction
    
  • Textures
    
  • Texture Part
    
  • Default Scene
    
  • Texture Mapping
    
  • Texture Orientation
    
  • Perspective View
    
  • Scenes
    
  • Lighting
  
  
• Mapping Adjustments
  
  
  
  • Chapter 5: Scenery, Lighting and Decals
    
  • Creating Custom Colors
    
  • Decals
    
  • Decal Mapping
    
  • Scenery
    
  • Lighting
    
  • Shadows
  
  
• Chapter 6: Assemblies and Configurations
  
  
  
  • Rendering Assemblies
    
  • Material Hierarchy in an Assembly
    
  • RenderManager Conventions
    
  • Applying Materials to Scenery
    
  • Spot Lights
  
  
• Chapter 7: PhotoWorks® Studio
  
  
  
  • PhotoWorks Studio
    
  • SolidWorks Materials
  
  
• Chapter 8: Output Options
  
  
  
  • Output Design Intent
    
  • Output Options
    
  • Render to the Screen
    
  • Render Contours
    
  • Render to a Printer
    
  • Rendering Images to a File
    
  • Screen Presentations
    
  • PowerPoint®
    
  • Alpha Channels
  
  
• Chapter 9: Materials, Scenes and Lighting
  
  
  
  • Overview
    
  • Material Library
    
  • Scene Library
    
  • View Image File
    
  • Creating Material Folders
    
  • Embedding Materials
    
  • Linking Material
    
  • Illumination
    
  • Organizing Files
    
  • The Table Lamp
    
  • Point Lights
    
  • Lighting Colors
    
  • Background Images
    
  • Save Scene
    
  • Transporting Files
    
  • Active Custom Folder
    
  • PhotoWorks Legacy Data
  
  
• Chapter 10: Lighting Effects
  
  
  
  • Rendering Basics
    
  • Lighting Principles
    
  • Ambient Light
    
  • Indirect Lighting
    
  • Case Study: Flashlight
    
  • Lighting Characteristics
    
  • PhotoWorks Light Characteristics
    
  • Foreground Effects
    
  • Reflections
    
  • Secondary Reflections
    
  • Environments
  
  
• Chapter 11: Fine Tuning
  
  
  
  • Lighting Concepts
    
  • Global Illumination
    
  • Setting Up Global Illumination
    
  • Caustics
    
  • Glass and Liquids
    
  • Using Contours
  
  
• Chapter 12: The Camera
  
  
  
  • The SolidWorks Camera
    
  • Establishing a Viewpoint
    
  • Apparent Depth
    
  • Standard Lens
    
  • Depth of Field
  
  
• Appendix
  
  
  
  • PhotoWorks Gallery