Creo 1.0
Activity 3: Rendering
Summary
In this activity you will learn how to create a photo realistic image of your name. Designers call
this rendering.
a.) Engineers often render their products for presentations. For example, engineers
present rendered products to
customers, managers, and
teammates.
b.) When the Scenes tool opens, you will notice several tabs: Scene, Room, Lights, and
Effects.
c.) Right now stay on the Scene tab.
d.) Scoll down the list of options in the Scene Gallery and locate
the photolux-studio-hard scene.
e.) Double click on this icon. Check to make sure it is active. At
the top the title photolux-studio-hard should appear in the
active scene dialog box.
e.) As you can see the first draft below, is not great. Two settings need to change: the
model has too much light and the model is not aligned to the floor of the scene. You can
tell because the image and shadow are not close together.
f.) This is not a problem. This is a first draft. Engineers often spend many hours creating
the right render before they share their design.
d.) Move the model around. You will see how the model is not lying flat or snapped to the
floor.
e.) To make the model lie flat or snap to the floor, find the Room Orientation section of the
Scenes Tab and click the button
f.) Rotate the model. The model is now snapped to the floor.
g.) Now perform another draft render. See how the shadow is close to the model.
e.) If you rotate model, slowly, you will see how different angles get different lighting effects.
Description
Draft Render
Light
shining on
Creo letters
Light
shining on
top of Creo
blocks
g.) For example, add a spot light. Click the add spotlight icon
h.) If you want to hide the light fixture, click the eyeball icon
a line across it
Description
Visual of Spotlight
Draft Render
Added a
spotlight.
Spotlight
created too
much light.
c.) Zoom in and out on your model. You will see how there is a perspective view.
i.) To take perspective view off, got to the Render Tab and click on the Perspective View
icon
a.) Once you find a draft render you like, its time to
perform a final render.
b.) First, you need to change the Render Setup.
c.) The render set up contains many options including
the quality of the image. For the final render, you
are going to change the quality from Draft to
Maximum.
d.) Close the dialog box.
e.) Now click the Render tool.
f.) This will take some time depending on your computer speed and the scene set up.
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g.) Here is an example of a Final Render with perspective view and no added light fixtures.
h.) The level of realism depends on a lot of factors. The use of space, light, texture, scene,
and much more. Have fun exploring different options.