Luxology’s Nexus Powers PhotoView 360 in SolidWorks 2009

By DE Editors

Luxology LLC (San Mateo, CA) announced that its Nexus technology was used to jointly develop PhotoView 360, the new design visualization application that is bundled with SolidWorks Premium and Professional 2009 editions. Designed to deliver new levels of interactivity,  the software features physically based lighting, a library of realistic surface appearances, and a collection of studio-quality lighting environments. Nexus is the core rendering technology behind PhotoView 360.

Nexus is Luxology’s cross platform media-aware architecture that supports the rapid deployment of 2D and 3D authoring and visualization applications, and is the same technology that is used to develop the award-winning modo software.

Nexus includes a variety of modeling, sculpting, rendering,  painting and animation capabilities, is multi-core aware and fully scriptable using Perl, Python or LUA.

PhotoView 360 is a interactive rendering tool that offers a simplified interface for applying realistic materials to SolidWorks models and rendering out images of photorealistic quality.

PhotoView 360 is included in both SolidWorks Premium and SolidWorks Professional 2009.

For more information on Nexus and modo, go to Luxology.

For details on PhotoView 360 and the complete SolidWorks 2009 offering, go to SolidWorks.

Read previous DE coverage, “SolidWorks Corp. Licenses Luxology’s Nexus Rendering Technology,” (Aug. 2008).

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.