Onshape Launches Render Studio Beta

With the launch of Render Studio, Onshape users have the ability to create photorealistic rendered images from their Onshape designs. This new functionality, integrated into the Onshape platform, provides designers and engineers with on-demand, cloud-native rendering capabilities that let them refine product ideas and communicate concepts more effectively.

Initially, Render Studio will be offered as a beta capability as the experience and tuning of the offering is optimized. During this beta period, Onshape Professional and Enterprise users will automatically be given access to Render Studio.

No More Waiting for Prototypes

Onshape Render Studio lets users create realistic, photo-like images of their designs in a variety of background environments, helping designers and engineers visualize, assess, and iterate on their concepts.

Rather than waiting for a physical prototype to be built, prepared and a photoshoot organized, a designer or engineer can now see physically accurate representations of it, right in the same environment where changes can be made.

Improve Communication with Stakeholders

Whether sharing concepts within their company or providing customers with an advanced look of a design to secure sign-off and approval, designers and engineers can more quickly and effectively communicate their ideas. As they say, “a picture is worth a thousand words,” so a compelling, accurate and timely representation of the product is worth even more….

Create hyper-realistic images with Onshape's Render Studio.

NVIDIA and the Cloud

The Onshape product development platform continues to provide users with the unparalleled performance and scalability of a cloud-native architecture. Render Studio extends this platform by using NVIDIA Iray technology which provides designers and engineers with powerful, industry-leading rendering capabilities fully integrated within the Onshape platform. Onshape Render Studio creates hyper-realistic images utilizing NVIDIA RTX-powered GPUs hosted on the Amazon Web Services platform, delivering world-class performance. With AI denoising, Iray accelerates the completion of final images and smooths interactive rendering to more rapidly understand a scene’s composition and lighting.

Incredible Visual Results

Render Studio takes advantage of NVIDIA’s Material Definition Language (MDL) to achieve incredible rendering results by defining the properties of materials, ranging from the color of surfaces to their reflection or refraction properties to the light emission of surfaces. They even include additional surface geometric properties that are not commonly modeled in the primary geometric description of surfaces, such as cut-outs, textures, displacements, or bump maps.

Render Studio is integrated into the Onshape platform.

Cloud-Native Rendering: No Dedicated Hardware Needed

The integration of Render Studio into the Onshape platform also means that users can take advantage of advanced rendering capabilities without the need for expensive, dedicated workstations, or high-performance GPUs. Because everything is cloud-native, Render Studio delivers exceptional rendering performance without taxing local hardware.

With Render Studio, rendering performance allows users to remain productive, working on design and engineering challenges from any web-connected device.

In summary, Render Studio provides Onshape users with an unparalleled opportunity to create photorealistic renderings of their Onshape designs easily and conveniently. Working within the familiar environs of the Onshape product development platform, designers and engineers can now create photorealistic representations of their design ideas in order to improve the speed of design and innovation and accelerate time to market.