Photo realistic rendering of American chopper

RENDERING OF AMERICAN CHOPPER

Procedure:

• Open assembly file and go to tools, and add-ins and add photo-view -360.
• Go to assembly and click on mates and add tangent relation to the top plane and two tires.

• Apply a tangent related to the top plane and the kickstand.

• Edit the kickstand in the assembly and edit the sketch as shown.

• Open the gas tank and got o rendering tools and edit decals and open decals we need to apply on the tank and resize them to the required size and apply use decal image alpha channel.
• And under the illumination option select use underlying appearance.

• Now open the rear fender and select the rendering options and click on edit decals and browse fro the required decal and place on the face and select the label option on the mapping and give a size of 300mm and make it mirror vertical ad apply remaining options as before.

• Do the same with the oil tank and apply the decal with the label option.

• We can add an extra display for an appearance by adding a new display as shown.

• We can add views and cameras by editing in view section.

• now go to camera view and once click on preview render.

• Click on edit scene and select the plane white, and select day time HDR for the environment option also select the offset to geometry option.

• Go back to front view chopper, go to render tools, click on options and set the options as shown and click on the final render.

• Now again go back to options and set final render quality to the maximum and apply final render.

• Change the chassis color to blue and save the file and exit the Solidworks.
• Now open Solidworks visualize click on new and import the assembly file into it.
• Go to appearance option and change the appearance as shown.

• We can adjust the scene by going to scene options, select the environment and change to route 66 and rotate the chopper to get the good view.

• Go to the render options and select the type of image we want and select the quality of the image and set the no of passes we want and start render.

• And save the rendered image and visualize file.