machin wrote:@ Elitewolverine:
I use Blender to render my model (
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=7917&start=75), but personally I don't think its that great for actually making the model in the first place... for that I use Solidworks... Solidworks is a proper engineering package and therefore makes it easier to make changes quickly as well as being able to do things like apply a density to each part to obtain a CG, etc......
Havnig said that, Solidworks isn't free...
man you need to adjust your rendering settings...it would make it tons nicer...
try this, i am using 2.56 right now
go to your world tab, select ambient occlusion, factor .5 and setting multiply.
select enviorment lighting energy .75, and setting sky color (i use a dark grey for my color)
and under gather, use raytrace, distance of 2m, and 12 samples. You can use approximate and its tons tons faster, but raytrace is nicer
as well, blenders new modifer stack allows you to now 'solidify', and create thickness, control by vertex groups, etc. Now i know its a far cry from solidworks (dabled in solids works abit)...
but you said it best, it aint free, nor can solidworks run off a thumb drive and require like 20mb to install...
