Luxion, the leading developer of advanced rendering and lighting technology and makers of KeyShot, the first realtime ray tracing and global illumination program, today announced the release of KeyShot 2.2 as a free upgrade to the groundbreaking KeyShot 2 application introduced last summer.
KeyShot 2.2 delivers many improvements to the import pipeline and model interaction in realtime that makes it even easier to create photographic images from 3D CAD models. KeyShot 2.2 also adds support for SolidWorks 2011®, Autodesk AutoCAD® and Inventor®, and CATIA® v5 and SketchUp 8.
“Version 2.2 is a huge improvement for all Keyshot users,” says Kevin Quigley, principal at Quigley Design, a provider of high-end product development services to many well renown manufacturers and a beta tester of this new version. “Not only does Keyshot 2.2 import SolidWorks 2011 and CATIA v5 files, but there are some great improvements made to other translators as well, with more options and faster import.”
