Blocky Circles

SOLIDWORKS How To Questions
1

I know that this has been asked before…but honestly I don’t ever remember seeing a good solution for it…so here goes.

I am using SW 2018 SP5

  1. Here is my Image quality for this part:
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  2. Notice that these circles appear jagged?
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  3. I originally had the sliders for resolution set to about 50%. But I slid them to where you see them in the above picture.

Honestly, I didn’t really see a difference between the 2.

I have hit CTRL-Q already and have also closed the part and re-opened it.

I am trying to take a snapshot to show the customer…and, while I don’t need it to be a fancy rendered image…I do want my circles to look like circles.

What else should I do?


Edit:

I just dragged my sliders to here:
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Here is the updated circle resolution:
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0 improvement at all…


edit 2:

I just dragged (drug?) the sliders into the red:
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So, now there is an improvement…
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2

Without really looking at it in detail, maybe you could just use Photoview 360 and render it. Here’s a bronze bushing I just rendered real quick:
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It should get rid of those lines and can look a little more “life like” without having to spend any time with Visualize (steep learning curve).

3

You know part and assembly image quality differ right? So even if your assembly is set to high, if your part is set to low your part will show in low.

Edit: and image quality in parts need to rebuild to change quality, so if you got the slider down it won’t update.

4

Wonder if that could have something to do with Anti-Aliasing settings via the GPU?

5

This problem is exacerbated by mixing large and small features, a.k.a. large aspect ratios. If I model a 3" diameter diameter cylinder, 120" long with a 2" diameter extruded cut using these Image Quality settings:
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both circles are highly faceted:
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If i change the overall length to 12", things are much improved:

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The faceting is based on displayed geometry, so if you just need a screenshot, you can cut away the material you don’t need to show temporarily so that the overall aspect ratio is lower.

6

I guess I didn’t realize that. In the case I showed for an example, it was an engine component 3 feet across.

Thank you!