Tustin, California, December 6th, 2016 – Luxion, a leading developer of advanced rendering and lighting technology and maker of KeyShot®, the first real-time ray-tracing and global-illumination program for 3D rendering and animation, today announced the release of KeyShot 6.3, with new import libraries and expanded support for the latest releases of Autodesk Alias, Inventor and Maya, Siemens NX and Solid Edge, and SOLIDWORKS.
Luxion continues to build the most expansive support for the wide array of 3D product development applications in use by Engineers, Designers and 3D professionals. KeyShot 6.3 matches this commitment with the inclusion of the latest modeling libraries and software support, including support for Autodesk Alias 2017, Inventor 2017 and Maya 2017, support for Siemens NX 11 and Solid Edge ST9, plus enhanced and updated support for SOLIDWORKS 2017. Previous announcements include new and updated plugins for Autodesk products and the release of PTC Creo 4 with Creo Parametric’s Advanced Rendering Extension (ARX) powered by KeyShot rendering technology. Along with the addition of more software support in KeyShot 6.3, Luxion has also released an update to KeyShot Network Rendering.
KeyShot 6.3 brings increase support to users of the most popular 3D product development applications.
Integration and Plugin Updates
Included with native support for 3D file formats, KeyShot comes with additional free plugins for most 3D modeling software. Many of these plugins have been updated to support more software versions with new plugins added to expand integration. Included in plugin updates is support for Autodesk 3ds Max, Alias, Maya, Fusion 360 and Revit, SOLIDWORKS, PTC Creo and SketchUp. All KeyShot plugins may be downloaded at www.keyshot.com/plugins.
KeyShot Pro Trial
As a reminder, KeyShot trials are now available as a KeyShot Pro license and include KeyShot Animation and KeyShotVR, for the creation of motion and touch-enabled, interactive web visuals. Render queue and background render are disables with only the render output watermarked. The 15-day trial is available as a free download at www.keyshot.com/try/. Contact sales@keyshot.com for the full experience with all features enabled and no watermark.
Availability
The KeyShot 6.3 and Network Rendering updates are available immediately for download and installation, for existing users of KeyShot 6 at https://www.keyshot.com/downloads/. Upgrades to KeyShot 6 may be purchased online at https://www.keyshot.com/upgrade/ or through a qualified KeyShot reseller. For more details on pricing please contact your local reseller or sales@keyshot.com. For more information on KeyShot products, please visit www.keyshot.com and follow Luxion on Facebook or Twitter.
About Luxion
Luxion is a leading developer of advanced 3D rendering and lighting technology including applications such as KeyShot and the Velux Daylighting Visualizer. KeyShot is the first real-time ray tracing application that uses a physically correct render engine based on scientific research in global illumination and material appearance. With a focus on making the creation of high-quality visuals from 3D data as simple as taking a photograph, KeyShot is recognized as the standard visualization tool for industrial designers and marketing professionals worldwide. Luxion’s customer list includes many of the Fortune 1000 and major industrial design companies including Chrysler, Fossil, Microsoft, Philips, Specialized, Whirlpool, and IDEO. For more information on KeyShot 3D rendering, animation and KeyShotVR, please visit www.keyshot.com or follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Press contacts:
Luxion, Inc.
Josh Mings
Director of Marketing
josh@luxion.com
+1 (949) 274-8871
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