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

Altair Forum User

Followed the instructions for installing materials. Did this and now Solid Thinking crashes on launch... suggestions?

Altair Forum User

Hi Scott, what a strange problem! Strange and unioque because doing the same things on other Macs it works fine so it must be something specific on your computer. Put the folder '4' inside the 'MaterialsLib' folder, launch solidThinking and if does not crash just choose solidMaxwell as rendering engine and quit solidThinking. Now verify that launching the program it crashes. If this happens, launch the Terminal application from the Utility folder and copy and paste this command 'chmod -R 777 /Users/Shared/solidThinking_7.6/MaterialsLib/4' inside the Terminal window. Please check inside the Terminal window that there must be nothing before 'chmod' and nothing after '.../MaterialsLib/4'. Now just hit enter to apply the command. Once this is done, launch solidThinking and check if everything works fine. If not, locate the 'solidThinking_7.6.ini' file inside the /Library/Preferences of your user folder (the home icon) and MOVE (NOT copy) it on the Desktop. Now launch the program an let me know what happens.

Altair Forum User

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

Sorry. Can't download materials from these links.

Altair Forum User

Hello Antonio.

Can you upload mat.lib again?

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Additional question: can somebody explain how to export enviroment and cameras to maxwell?

sometimes are black screens...

i recovered mxs file from temp-dir and open in studio, ohh, i understood why NL made studio /emoticons/default_wink.png' alt=';)' srcset='/emoticons/wink@2x.png 2x' width='20' height='20'>

Altair Forum User

Here is the new link where you can download and install Maxwell materials for solidThinking 7.6. The old link is not available anymore.

for Windows:

http://93.185.122.130/download/Maxwell/solidMaxwell_Materials_7.6.zip

for Mac OsX:

http://93.185.122.130/download/Maxwell/solidMaxwell_Materials_7.6.dmg

Adel Matar

Altair Forum User

Hello Adel,

thanks a'lot! =d> /