Light, simulated
Light bounces between surfaces, through glass and under the skin of plastics, so reflections, soft shadows and colour bleeding come out the way a camera would record them. The result is denoised.
Rendering
Photoreal stills and videos, straight from the model
A physically based GPU path tracer turns a part or an assembly into a photoreal image or a video of its mechanism. Materials, lights, cameras and the environment are saved in the document, so any render can be repeated later, by anyone, with the same result.
- Works on
- Parts and assemblies
- Toolboxes
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Why it matters
What stands out
Forty measured materials
Cast iron, machined and brushed steel, bead-blasted and anodized aluminium, chrome, brass, car paint, glass, rubber, carbon fibre and more — or your own, with clear coat, anisotropy, transmission, sheen, subsurface and procedural textures.
Materials follow the colour rules
A material is assigned like a colour — per body, per feature or per set — and stays with the part when it is placed in an assembly. Round edges makes sharp CAD edges catch a highlight without touching the geometry.
Real units, real cameras
Point, spot, area and sun lights in lumens and lux with colour temperatures in kelvin; cameras with focal length, depth of field and exposure; a physical sky placed by location, date and time.
Mechanisms on video
Render a kinematics simulation of an assembly as MP4, WebM, AVI or GIF — every frame path traced, every pose re-solved.
Scriptable, too
Every step — materials, lights, cameras, environment, stills and videos — is available to your LLM or script through the MCP server, and falls back to the CPU on machines without ray-tracing hardware.
Operations
Everything in Rendering
The complete inventory, toolbox by toolbox, with the icons exactly as they appear in the application.
Scene6
Point LightOmni-directional light in lumens, with a radius for soft shadows
Spot LightA cone of light with an adjustable angle and soft edge
Area LightRectangular or round soft box — the most realistic studio light
Sun LightParallel light in lux, with an angular size for soft shadows
CameraSave the current view with focal length, depth of field and exposure
EnvironmentStudio, industrial, urban, outdoor or night HDRI, a physical sky, or a colour
Materials2
Material LibraryBrowse about forty built-in materials and apply one to the selection
New MaterialCreate a material in the editor, with a live path-traced preview
Render4
Live PreviewReplace the viewport with the path-traced image, refining as you watch
Render ImageRender a final still at the output size (PNG or EXR)
Render VideoRender a kinematics simulation of an assembly as a video
Render SettingsOutput size, samples, bounces, denoising, tone mapping and ground
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