Plug-in for Maxwell Render

Altair Forum User

I am using solidThinking 7.6 and I have now installed Maxwell Render but if I render from solidThinking nothing happens. And I don't see materials in the library on the left. I think I am missing something. Any advice?

Altair Forum User

First of all check the versions of Maxwell Render: it must be 1.7.1

otherwise please update.

Once you installed the latest version Maxwell render

you just need to launch solidThinking and to open

the Render menu choose 'Renderers...'

Now choose 'solidMaxwell' and clik OK.

If you render inside any view you should now see the

Maxwell Render full screen panel that should appear.

If not, here is the procedure:

------------- how to fix any path issue ---------------

On Windows:

Close solidThinking

Open the Control Panel, clic on Advanced System settings,

select the Advanced tab and click the Environment variables button.

Now, inside the System Variables section, select the 'Path' raw

and click the 'Modify' button.

Inside the 'Value' field, at the end of the existing text,

just add ';' followed by the path of the Maxwell Render

main istallation folder (i.e.: 'C:\Program Files\Next Limit\Maxwell').

Do not forget the ';' BEFORE the path you are going to add.

On Mac OsX:

Close solidThinking

Go inside the Application folder, open the Maxwell Render folder,

launch Maxwell Studio and just close it.

At this point, on both Win and Mac, launch solidThinking and

just try again to open the Render menu. Choose 'Renderers...'

Now choose 'solidMaxwell' and clik OK.

If you render inside any view you should now see the

Maxwell Render full screen panel that should appear.

----------------- how to install the Maxwell materials ----------------

If you cannot find the Maxwell materials inside the Materials Toolbar,

here are the links to download and install them:

for Windows:

http://80.20.103.6/download/Maxwell/solidMaxwell_Materials_7.6.zip

for Mac OsX:

http://80.20.103.6/download/Maxwell/solidMaxwell_Materials_7.6.dmg