


Hybrid, if you have a balanced system with a good nVidia card and a comparable CPU.GPU, if you have a powerful video card such as an nVidia CUDA-enabled GPU with more than 1 GB VRAM.

CPU, if your CPU is significantly more powerful than your graphics card or you don’t have an NVIDIA graphics card, or one that meets the Fine Print (below).CPU mode took 3 minutes, 51 seconds to render.Using one of the sample projects to render the image below, I used a NVIDIA P3000 graphics card, 377.11 graphics driver and i7-7700HQ CPU 2.80GHz: It’s like having an extra engine in your car – turn it on and you’ll get there quicker. This means that you don’t have to rely solely on the CPU (Central Processing Unit) to crunch all the numbers. To speed up the rendering process, SOLIDWORKS Visualize can utilize the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) on specific NVIDIA graphics cards (see the Fine Print below). where it’s being emitted and where it’s being reflected), the resolution of the render and the complexity of the geometry and textures. Much of the calculation time is used to determine the position and direction of light in the scene (i.e. Rendering images is where rendering software, like SOLIDWORKS Visualize, works to create a realistic two-dimensional image from three-dimensional CAD geometry. Not so much in setting up the model’s viewpoint, background, lighting and appearances, but the time it takes to ‘render’ the image. Creating magazine-quality images from 3D CAD models can consume a lot of time.
