PhotoView 360 2010 - fast tutorial

Ok guys I know I said that I will do an assembly tutorial but one of my READERS asked me to do a PhotoView 360 tutorial (I wrote readers with capital letters because I'm excited that someone is interested in my blog). So I will do a fast tutorial and by fast i mean that I will not go deep in to details. Ok here we go. Before a month ago one of my best friends gave me a key so one day I was so bored and I made a model in SolidWorks. The key looks like this:

Now when you have a model that you want to use you open your PhotoView 360. Above the work area you have a tool bar that looks like this:

In the first row you have:
Open File - here you open your SolidWorks part that you will use in PhotoView 360
Appearances - here you choose the appearance of your part (you add textures and colors)
Environments - here you select the environment for you  part (background and scenes)
Settings - the main thing that you have to do here is to input the dimensions of the picture that you will make
Final Render - when you select this PhotoView 360 will start to render your picture
Gallery - opens an online gallery
Help - opens the help menu

In the second row on the left you can select where on the SolidWorks part you want to apply the appearances (Face, Body, Part, Assembly). And on the right in the second row you have navigation and manipulation commands.

Ok, now that I explained the basics you open your part and go to Appearances and select the appearance that you would like to use. You just select the appearance and drag and drop it on the part or on a face.

Now you go to Environments and select an environment that works for you. You just drag and drop the environment to the work area.

Ok, when you did this you go to Settings to input your picture dimension.

When you have finished with the preparation of the part you select Final Render and PhotoView 360 will start with the rendering of your picture. This may take some time (it depends of your computer configuration, your picture dimensions and the complexity of the part/assembly.

When PhotoView 360 finishes with the rendering you just select Save Image and you decide where you want to save the picture and select the format in which you want to save the picture.

You get a picture like above.

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Guys write to me, whether in comments below or by email (goran.sostarko@gmail.com). If you have some questions, wishes for future tutorial etc.