Strike CNC (My first CNC router)

[audioandy]

Hi Ant

Nice CAD models what software are you using?

[mocha]

Hi Ant

Nice CAD models what software are you using?

I was thinking that, his pics look better than my extrusion that's sitting on the bench!! I bet it isn't cheap tho! (If it turns out to be sketchup then I'll eat a mcdonalds!)

[Shinobiwan]

Cheers guys. Its solidworks for CAD and then Keyshot 2.3 for the renders.

KeyShot - 3D Rendering and Animation software

These are pretty rough as things go. Done just to give me an overview of the machine really and make sure it fits together as expected. If you put the time in you can get some realistic rendering but its a lot of faffing adding small details in CAD and then playing with lighting and materials within Keyshot. Depends what your looking to achieve really.

Here's one that's had a bit more time spent on it.

[Musht]

I was thinking that, his pics look better than my extrusion that's sitting on the bench!! I bet it isn't cheap tho! (If it turns out to be sketchup then I'll eat a mcdonalds!)

Kerkythea is good render engine at the right price, free:

Kerkythea

there is a plug in exporter for sketchup