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đ¸ RenderCAD (One-Click Photorealistic Renders!)
MichaelPascoe
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Hi fellow Onshapers! I'm excited to finally introduce a project my friend and I have been working on for a while now.
This is a 1 click rendering tool lets you take a snip of your cad model and render it as a photorealistic image.
Literally a magic button that overlays your cad platform so that it feels like its a natural part of your cad environment.
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Supported Platforms
It's universal, so it will work with any cad system and even napkin sketches.
Pricing
New accounts get 3 free trial renders.
Pricing info is available on site.
Support
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Software Formats
RenderCAD is available in the following formats:
- Browser Extension
- Desktop App
- Render Studio Web Tab
- API - For custom integrations
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This is an impressive tool. What advantages does this have over Vizcom?
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Vizcom is more of a broad creative sandbox, powerful with lots of control. While RenderCAD is built for immediate execution by giving the AI more control so that you don't have to mess around with settings. So RenderCAD's goal is to get you photorealistic results asap while leveraging the data youâve already defined like model colors and geometry, to automate material selection for you. One of the main benefits RenderCAD has over other AI rendering platforms is the integrated snipping tool that lets you render your active viewport without ever leaving your cad environment. No exports, no uploads; just one-click and your done.
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Here's a BIG update!
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I tried to sign up for a trial, but they didn't succeed sending the confirmatoion mail (and yes, I checked my spam folder). Is there a secret trick?
@martin_kopplow on it!
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Thank you. I'll try again as soon as I can.
Okay, so I took it for a spin. I took for granted that it knows what a sofa looks like, and also how cars look, besides I cannot disclose any of the hypercars I am currently working on, so it had to be a new part, prefereably one the AI hadn't seen before. I chose a small connector dongle I had and took a screenshot:
The prompt allows for 500 characters, but I kept it short: "Dark grey plastic for the housing. Nickel plated metal parts, brass pins, rubber connector housing and cable."
This is what it came up with:
Okay, pretty nice for a quick job. Lid of the housing is still light grey, the extrusions below the nuts are somewhat no man's land. Nice nickel effect.
So let's get some more detail out of the same input: "Dark grey plastic for the housing and rear lid. Nickel plated metal parts, brass pins, rubber connector housing. Black PVC cable with horizontal print "ISO 9001" in light grey. Four wires are visible in the cut end face of the cable: One is red, one is blue, one is green and one is yellow."Â
Here comes:
Okay. It creates geometry of it's own, if required. Nice. Creating the mapping for the print on the cable would have taken at least a few minutes if I had done it manually, and the result here is sure good enough. It figured there'd be washers below each nut now, which there aren't. It didn't get the rear lid thing and it halluzinated a fifth wire and made it black.
Well, some characters left until we hit 500. Here we go: "Dark grey plastic for the housing and rear lid. The cylindrical extrusions under the nuts are part of the plastic housing. A black cable-tie is inserted through the holes and goes around the housing and is closed above it. Nickel plated metal parts, brass pins, rubber connector housing. Black PVC cable with horizontal print "ISO 9001" in light grey. Four wires are visible in the cut end face of the cable: One is red, one is blue, one is green and one is yellow. Rotate the part 20° to the left."Â
The result is as follows:
Oops, that was unexpected. I need to explain the Zip-Tie thing better. The washers are still there. The rotation did not work out - which was to be expected, but I just couldn't resist trying.
So, let's try something else and max out those 500 characters: "Dark grey plastic for the housing and rear lid. The washers under the nuts are intergral parts of the plastic housing. A black cable-tie is inserted in the slots at the side of the housing and closed around it. Nickel plated metal parts, brass pins, rubber connector housing. Black PVC cable with horizontal print "ISO 9001 certified" in light grey. 4 wires are visible in the cut end face of the cable: One is red, one is blue, one is green and one is yellow. Make the rear lid same color as housing."
The result is:
Small wonders are worked immediately, bigger ones maybe later: It automatically makes room for the longer text by extending the cable insulation a bit, which is kinda smart, though it does not know much about cable ties, still can't figure the slots and can't count to four. Also, it somehow deducted there'd now be a white background where it assumed a grey one earlier.
So, what do we learn? It appears to be good at mainstream things, which it can do fast and with reasonable precision. I guess it'll be hard to get it to do specific details it hasn't yet seen. Unfortunately, the bulk of my work tend to be new things with quite some technical detail, and I have clients who would prefer illustrations to match exactly what they get, and I have NDAs I need to take care of.
If I was to use this system for critical renders, I'd probably try to model all the critical elements in 3D, for that might still be faster than explaining it to the AI, and have the AI add eye candy like logos, prints, display content, things like that, which I usually do in Pghotoshop. That'll still save some time. For less important illustrations (the average PowerPoint) I might use it to create schematic renders, when it comes to comparing one general shape to another, black vs. blue housing and things I don't want to model or haven't modeled yet.
I'll keep an eye open for this and maybe try a few more things next days.
Incredible feedback @martin_kopplow, many thanks!!
Weâre developing quickly and we definitely are open to adding new features and improving off feedback.
And of course, we have no issues signing NDA agreement our users, if that matters to them.
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@martin_kopplow I've yet to mess around with this tool but I've messed with some local installs of controlnet and my own image generation stacks. I wonder if using deliberately contrasting technicolor color schemes in the model might help fix some of the ambiguity in cases like the washers vs housing body.
Derek Van Allen | Engineering Consultant | Meddler@Derek_Van_Allen_BD Our goal is to keep it the exact geometry, that's the intent. When giving it more creative freedom, and custom prompts, it tends to get a little creative. Trying to find the right balance so that it can still create, but also still keep the OG geometry unchanged.
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