#1 - Transition to Dassault Systèmes' Stellar Rendering Engine
One of the most significant changes in SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2025 is the retirement of the Nvidia Iray render engine and the full adoption of Dassault Systèmes' Stellar engine.
This change brings faster rendering speeds, improved image quality, and a more robust foundation for rendering tasks across various Dassault Systèmes' tools like 3DEXCITE and CATIA. Stellar enables smoother workflows and helps achieve more accurate and visually appealing results.
#2 - Rapid Real-Time Rendering with AI Denoising
The new rendering engine has unlocked real-time rendering capabilities in fast render mode, allowing users to instantly see changes as they make them.
This dramatic improvement in rendering speed ensures that designers can receive feedback and refine their visuals in real-time, making the creative process more efficient.
Gain the latest industry insights and learn new shortcuts to success with our free webinars.
Register Here The use of AI denoising accelerates this further, providing clean renders with less noise while speeding up the process. However, to fully benefit from this feature, users will need to ensure they are using modern graphics cards.
#3 - Improved Transparency and Background Customisation
Visualize 2025 introduces an enhanced method for rendering images with transparency.
While the ability to enable or disable backgrounds has been available previously, the 2025 release allows users to fade the ground plane instead of removing it entirely.
This subtle but effective improvement retains essential lighting bounce from the floor, making it ideal for compositing workflows or where an aspect of a render needs to be isolated.
#4 - Offload Animations to Render Cluster with Visualize Boost
For users working on larger projects or complex animations, the ability to offload rendering tasks to a render cluster is a game-changer. This feature, available with SOLIDWORKS Visualize Professional and Visualize Connected, leverages the Visualize Boost service.
The 2025 release sees a redesign of this service, making it simpler to use, with a sleek interface and one-click setup.
With network rendering capabilities, designers can offload viewport and final render tasks, significantly speeding up the production process.
#5 - Direct Access to Visualize API Tools from SOLIDWORKS
SOLIDWORKS users can now access Visualize’s API tools directly within their CAD environment. This integration allows for seamless automation of rendering tasks, including specifying render settings such as image types, sizes, and pass numbers.
The ability to trigger rendering in the background while continuing with design work is ideal for last-minute renders before meetings or presentations, keeping the workflow smooth and efficient.
Are you ready for SOLIDWORKS 2025? Find the best CAD workstations for your budget!
Learn More Discover more automations and time-saving tools inside SOLIDQ, the batch-processor for SOLIDWORKS.
#6 - Enhanced Support for Interactive GLB and glTF Files
The demand for interactive content continues to grow, with web and mobile presentations, as well as augmented reality (AR) becoming essential in modern marketing strategies.
SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2025 expands its interactive content capabilities by offering improved visual consistency when exporting to popular formats like GLB and glTF.
SOLIDWORKS Visualize leverages Dassault Systèmes' appearance format (DSP) to ensure that your interactive models retain the same high-quality visuals as your rendered images, providing a seamless experience across platforms.
Are you Ready to Download SOLIDWORKS 2025?
The 2025 release of SOLIDWORKS Visualize marks a significant milestone in rendering technology, providing users with faster rendering speeds, more flexibility, and better integration with other Dassault Systèmes tools.
Whether you're creating images, animations, or interactive 3D models, make sure you are ready for SOLIDWORKS 2025 to harness all the tools you need to bring your designs to life with unparalleled speed and quality.
Discover all the latest updates across the SOLIDWORKS portfolio and upgrade to SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2025 today to experience a new era of rendering that empowers you to deliver captivating content for your projects.
Take the Next Steps
Discover all the latest updates across the SOLIDWORKS 2025 portfolio and how you can enhance your efficiency with our deep-dive webinar, blogs, and videos.
It’s more than just annual updates, though. Make the most of your SOLIDWORKS subscription with our Enhanced subscription package to unlock exclusive discounts, priority support, and so much more!