Render Workbench

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Introduction

The Render Workbench let's you produce high-quality images from FreeCAD models, using open-source external rendering engines.

A pure Python workbench, Render is seamlessly integrated in FreeCAD: the whole rendering scene - objects, lighting, materials, camera, etc. - can be described with FreeCAD objects, to be exported to external renderers.

Compared with other approaches based on third-part computer graphics applications, Render aims to:

Supported renderers

At the moment six rendering engines are supported:

Usage

In quick-start mode, after workbench installation has correctly been done, rendering a FreeCAD model is just a 4-step process:

  1. Create a rendering project: Press the button in the toolbar corresponding to your renderer and select a template suitable for your renderer (you may start with a 'studio' flavour, like appleseed_studio_light.appleseed, cycles_studio_light.xml, luxcore_studio_light.cfg, povray_studio_light.pov etc.).
  2. Add views of your objects to your rendering project: Select both the objects and the project, and press the Add view button.
  3. Set your point of view: Navigate in the 3D View to the desired position and switch to perspective mode.
  4. Render: Select your project and press the Render button in toolbar (also available from project's context menu).

And you should get a first rendering of your model.

More instructions can be found in the GitHub repository or the online help.

Features

Features include, but are not limited to:

Links

More info? Just follow the link: https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-render

User documentation