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Render selection

Render selection - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Render selection

- [Narrator] The render selection button here allows you to select between three different rendering modes. The very first one of those is the preview render, and this is where you want to start in your model to set it up, get the right orientation, maybe add different materials, and different backgrounds or scenes, and get your model prepped for rendering. Now if you want to start seeing what it's really going to start looking like when I start actually running a rendering engine on top of that, you can then move over here to the fast render mode. As soon as I do that, notice it initialized and then down here on the bottom screen, you can see how many passes it does and passes per second, and if I'm in the move mode over here, I have the ability to move my model around the screen, I can, of course, rotate it around, and you can see it's rendering the entire time so I can see what it's kind of going to look like when I do a final render on this, and this is a good mode to move into…

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