Toybuilder
Senior Member
I use Alibre Design quite a lot in conjunction with Altium Designer to detail the mechanical aspects of my projects and to create more complete representations of a finished product, where the electronics is only a part of a much bigger overall project.
I have recently started to use Keyshot to get nicer looking renderings for customer presentations, but am being stymied by the Alibre-Keyshot limitation where single-part models will export entirely in one color, even when there are separate colors on part features.
This is particularly challenging when using vendor-supplied STEP files in my designs, as I don't control the part, and recreating the part as an assembly is not a viable option.
Several examples of where this fails:
1: Part # markings on the relay are the same color as the relay body.
2: USB connector's contacts, shell, and body plastic are all in the same color
3: Component plastic body and metal leads are the same color.
4: Faceplate "decal" is the same color as the substrate.
I don't know if this is a deliberate restriction to distinguish KeyShot CAD capability from KeyShot Pro; but since Alibre Design is able to export STEP214 with colored features, it seems like it would be not much different to exporting colored features to Keyshot?
Thanks!
I have recently started to use Keyshot to get nicer looking renderings for customer presentations, but am being stymied by the Alibre-Keyshot limitation where single-part models will export entirely in one color, even when there are separate colors on part features.
This is particularly challenging when using vendor-supplied STEP files in my designs, as I don't control the part, and recreating the part as an assembly is not a viable option.
Several examples of where this fails:
1: Part # markings on the relay are the same color as the relay body.
2: USB connector's contacts, shell, and body plastic are all in the same color
3: Component plastic body and metal leads are the same color.
4: Faceplate "decal" is the same color as the substrate.
I don't know if this is a deliberate restriction to distinguish KeyShot CAD capability from KeyShot Pro; but since Alibre Design is able to export STEP214 with colored features, it seems like it would be not much different to exporting colored features to Keyshot?
Thanks!