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HP-9 Compressor. Autodesk Inventor to Okino NuGraf.

The HP-9 is a high pressure, single stage, twin lobe liquid ring compressor, designed to handle highly toxic, explosive and corrosive gases in applications such as flare-gas, chlorine and vinyl chlorine monomer recovery.

The model was created in Autodesk Inventor by the Gardner Denver Nash engineering department. The Inventor data was imported into Okino's NuGraf software by Ed Steinerts who used it to optimize the CAD data, compose the 3D scene, add materials and textures, then create the final high resolution renderings.

Copyrights: Images used by permission and Copyright (c) by Ed Steinerts and Gardner Denver Nash.

Solar Powered Vehicle. CATIA v5 to Cinema-4D Advanced Renderer

Ludwig Desmet is a design visualization expert at Renderhouse, Belgium. Renderhouse specializes in technical illustrations, product presentations and animations. As quoted from Ludwig, "PolyTrans is a great help in transferring the multiple file formats to the Cinema4D we use as main rendering application."

Renderhouse was the official 3D media sponsor for the "Solarteam". These technical renderings were created for the press presentation brochure, and showed the ins and outs of all the vehicle components.

The solar powered vehicle was created in Catia V5 and transferred to Okino PolyTrans software where it was optimized and re-exported for use by Cinema-4D. The source files were 77MB and the final scene 2.6 million polygons. The solar panel texture map is 10kx3k pixels, designed in Photoshop. The final image was rendered with Cinema-4D, Advanced Render Module.

The solar powered vehicle finished 2nd place in the Panasonic World Solar Challenge. The Belgian Umicore Solar Team II, a group of 14 student engineers, designed and build the car in about 16 months.

Car specs: Prepreg Carbon composite body 29kg. High graded Aluminium tubular frame 19kg. Csiro engine in rear wheel, Efficiency 97%, regenerative braking. High density Lithium Polymer battery pack Germanium Space Graded solar cells. Total weight approx 175 kg. Max speed over 140 km/h

Copyrights: Images used by permission and Copyright (c) by Solarteam and Ludwig Desmet, Renderhouse BVBA.

CP3 Scooter Concept Image. SolidWorks to Cinema-4D

INDUSTRIAL PDD is an industrial design consultancy company located in Stuttgart, Germany. They deliver customized product design and development solutions that encompass workshops, design ideas, design detailing, design modelling, prototyping, design CAD data, tooling CAD data and support of series production.

The image is of the "CP3 Scooter", designed entirely in SolidWorks, then converted + optimized by Okino PolyTrans software into Maxon's Cinema-4D program. The result was an award winning design that has become famous for INDUSTRIAL PDD.

Copyrights: Images used by permission and Copyright (c) by Christoph Bodensieck, Industrial PDD & Switch Mobility.

Electrical Breaker Machinery. 'One Space Designer' to Maya.

Click here to view 10 short animations in MPEG format (12MB total) created by Pieter Suur for this Eaton Electric B.V. project.

The first image is of a 'Vacuum Interrupter' (circuit breaker) visualization made for Eaton Electric B.V. The model was composed of approximately 120,000 polygons, 75% of the data from 'One Space Designer'. The IGES CAD data was transported into Maya using Okino's PolyTrans-for-Maya. The image was rendered with 'RenderPipe for Maya' on a PURE Rendering Card (Art VPS).

The second image is of a 'Xiria Ring Main Unit' (low and medium voltage switchgear) visualization made for Eaton Electric B.V. The model was composed of 400,000 polygons, 50% data from FormZ and 50% from 'One Space Designer'. The data was transported cleanly into Maya using PolyTrans-for-Maya for mesh fixing, smoothing and data translation. The image was rendered with Mental Ray for Maya.

As quoted by Pieter Suur, "As a technical 3D-illustrator and animator I often work with different applications and found out that Okino's converters made it easy to exchange data between them. Eaton Holec needed visualisation of their Xiria Ring Main Unit for marketing purposes. At that time parts of the installation were drawn in 'One Space Designer' and the engineering was not finished yet. We had to find a reliable way to reimport changed parts of the installation into my system. Other parts I already made in FormZ on the Mac and Rhino. Because I also wanted to make animations with the Xiria unit, all the data had to come together in Maya. Okino's PolyTrans-for-Maya + CAD converters were the solution for effortless translation of all this data into Maya. Spending less time for converting the data meant that I could pay more attention to the final image."

Copyrights: Images used by permission and Copyright (c) by Pieter Suur, Suur Graphics and Eaton Electric B.V.

Barco Cockpit Head-Down Display. Pro/Engineer to Cinema-4D.

Bert Moors, visualization expert and mechanical engineer at Barco Avionics Displays, used Okino PolyTrans to convert and optimize his complex Pro/Engineer assemblies into Maxon's Cinema-4D for final product visualization and animation.

The image is of a Barco 'Cockpit Head-Down Display' that will be used for both civil and military applications.

As quoted from Bert Moors, "I must say that we are very pleased with the way Okino's PolyTrans imports complete and highly complex Pro/Engineer Assemblies into Maxon's Cinema-4D. Compared to earlier, where we had to make STL or STEP exports of all separate parts and then had to reassemble them inside the rendering application, PolyTrans in combination with Cinema-4D has given us a huge gain in time spent on renders. Truly a very valuable tool"

Copyrights: Images used by permission and Copyright (c) by Bert Moors, Barco Avionics and Preview Projects.

Lithography Machine. Pro/Engineer to 3ds Max.

Brian Harp specializes in 3D animation, visual effects and motion graphics for Digital Engine Studios, Inc.

As quoted by Brian, "Working closely with our client we were faced with the challenge of converting a new multi-million dollar lithography unit into 3ds Max for animation and rendering. The problem: The unit was designed in Pro/Engineer Our solution: Okino PolyTrans with the native Pro/E importer - after hours of research on the web, this was the best choice. Not only was this our software of choice but, the customer support was second to none. If I had questions, Robert Lansdale of Okino was there quickly with the answers. The customer support was incredible.

The lithography unit consisted of 2783 internal and external parts and 8,344,991 faces. Because of confidentiality reasons we took our computer in to their office and converted all the files during lunch. The process was fast and reliable. We then animated and rendered our animations in 3ds Max using a 3rd party plugin for global illumination. The surfacing and conversion of the models turned out exactly what we expected and our client was extremely pleased with the quality and realism of their new lithography unit product launch. With many of our clients being in the hi-tech industry we'll definitely be using PolyTrans more often."

Copyrights: Images used by permission and Copyright (c) by Brian Harp and Digital Engine Studios, Inc.

NASA Mars Exploration Rover

As quoted by Boris Rabin, "We purchased PolyTrans and used it for 3D data conversion and optimization of datasets created for the NASA MER space program (Mars Exploration Rover Mission). It is fantastic software. My colleagues at another NASA center spent days using three software packages on what took me 15 minutes using PolyTrans alone (polygon reduction in batch mode worked like a charm)."

Copyrights: Images used by permission and Copyright (c) by Boris Rabin (Development Lead), NASA/Ames Research Center, FutureFlight Central.

Astro Lighting Spotlight Fixture. SolidWorks to Maya.

Astro Lighting, of Harlow UK, is a longer term user of Okino's PolyTrans-for-Maya software, which is utilized to directly convert and optimize SolidWorks CAD data into Maya. Final rendering is done via ART's ArtVPS rendering hardware. Okino has been associated with ART and their customers, directly and indirectly, since the mid-90's. The image is of a Misumi IP44 Spotlight, used as part of the Astro Lighting product catalog.

Copyrights: Images used by permission and Copyright (c) by Stuart Wells and Astro Lighting Ltd.

Seadoo. SolidWorks to Okino NuGraf.

This is one of the more famous images associated with Okino software and many of our print media advertisements. It was designed by Daka Designs Ltd. (Hong Kong) in SolidWorks, then transferred natively into Okino's NuGraf program (via the Okino SolidWorks importer) for final lighting, scene composition and rendering.

Copyrights: Images used by permission and Copyright (c) by Daka Designs Ltd. Hong Kong.

Children Playground Equipment. Pro/Engineer to AutoCAD.

The Husson International group was founded in 1960 and is now a leading European manufacturer of play and sports equipment. Tim Couper, of Husson UK, used Okino PolyTrans as the mechanism to convert his Pro/Engineer datasets of the children playground equipment into AutoCAD DXF/DWG files. Those were then imported into AutoCAD and rendered to the images shown below. The final layouts were assembled in Corel.

As stated by Tim, "the images are of the Cameleo range of equipment from Husson. The main selling point of this equipment is that it is available in 9 different themes. The particular themes below are of the 'Rustic' theme. The equipment is modular and can therefore be supplied in small configurations as shown or in much larger assemblies."

Copyrights: Images used by permission and Copyright (c) by Tim Couper and Husson UK.

Design Visualizations by Crane Digital. Pro/Engineer to 3ds Max, XSI and Lightwave.

CraneDigital, run by John B. Crane, is a 3D illustration and animation studio in Fort Collins, Colorado. John specializes in 3D scientific/technical illustration and animation. His work has to be seen to be believed -- it is truly awe inspiring. His work has been featured in Okino print advertisements for many years.

As stated by John, "Because my education and training are in art I approach the discipline of engineering as the 'fine art' it deserves to be portrayed as. I've had the good fortune to learn many 3D workstation applications and have settled on LightWave, XSI and 3ds Max. Some of my highest profile clients include Los Alamos National Labs, Sandia National Labs, Waterpik, and HACH Company, amongst others.

I've used PolyTrans|CAD for countless projects, moving seamlessly between 3ds Max, XSI and LightWave. PolyTrans handles Pro/Engineer files extremely well, as evidenced by the project shown for Waterpik. Why move between applications? Sometimes it's as simple as a slightly different look a client is after. Sometimes it's more complicated, like creating a motion, object or affect more easily in one application than another. Sometimes a client will already have Max files and want that to be the starting point. With PolyTrans, moving between different worlds is a reliable, "promisable" task. Without it my life would be far more difficult."

Click the image for an animation of the "Senoscan". The mechanical device was created in a combination of CAD packages, assembled in SolidWorks, then processed and optimized into Lightwave format for rendering & animatiom via PolyTrans|CAD.

Copyrights: Images used by permission and Copyright (c) by John B. Crane and CraneDigital.

Chopper Motorcycle Design & Compressor. Pro/Engineer to Cinema-4D.

Jason Clark is a senior mechanical designer, as well as a freelancer in engineering product visualization rendering and technical illustration.

Jason's exposure to rendering applications and CAD has lead him to deal with file conversions and large geometry, and thus often gets intrigued in dealing with highly detailed models. His current pipeline of applications includes Okino PolyTrans, Cinema-4D, Softimage|XSI, Modo, and Pro/ENGINEER.

The first image of a chopper motorcycle was a promotional piece done for PMC Tech. to commemorate the Wildfire release of Pro/ENGINEER. The data was converted from native Pro/E files using Okino's "Granite" CAD technology and moved into Cinema-4D for final rendering. The model contained 3.75 million polygons.

The second image is of a mechanical compressor unit, converted from original AutoCAD models. The model contained 350,000 polygons. The image was rendered in Cinema-4D with finalRender SP2.

Copyrights: Images used by permission and Copyright (c) by Jason Clark, Jase Design, Inc.

'South Fifth Avenue, New York City'. 3ds Max and trueSpace to Lightwave.

The first image is a visualization of a 19th century building in SOHO, New York City. It was created in trueSpace and 3ds Max, then combined and converted directly into Newtek's Lightwave via Okino's PolyTrans.

The second image is an interior visualization made for the Newmark global real estate management company. The data mostly came from AutoCAD via DXF files where they were imported into PolyTrans and then re-exported to Lightscape for final radiosity rendering.

As quoted from Arnold Gallardo (visual content creator), "Most jobs that I do come from different sources, from CAD/CAM data, Illustrator files, to DWF/DXF as well as from several 3D applications. In my workflow I use whatever application works best for solving a particular problem, so there is a huge necessity for having seamless 3D file translation/conversion and PolyTrans has served me well. I used to export from the 3D application itself and import that data back into another application but it is almost impossible to get a perfect conversion because of some file format's inherent structure like using 'instancing', proprietary UV mapping modes etc. My experience with Okino's technical support has been wonderful when dealing with problems during production work."

The SOHO building scene contains 700k polygons, 46 textures, 11 lights and 5 cameras.

Copyrights: Images used by permission and Copyright (c) by Gallardo Associates and Newmark.

Darwin Oil Refinery by Bechtel National Inc. AutoCAD to Lightwave.

As quoted from Carl Andrew Johnson, "I specialize in developing industrial animations and was provided with a large data set of 400 CAD files to convert into LightWave. The Okino NuGraf software was able to batch convert all the files over night. Using the polygon reduction tools in NuGraf I was able to bring the resulting polygon count down to a manageable 3 million polygons. Robert Lansdale of Okino has been a great help by modifying the LightWave export plug-in giving me great output flexibility."

Copyrights: Images used by permission and Copyright (c) by Carl Johnson and Bechtel National Inc.