Matching Catia and Showcase Views

[cl10k]

Hello

i'm trying to combine a Showcase-Render (model imported from Catia) and a line drawing made directly in Catia. Unfortunately I found no way of exactly matching the perspectives of both images. Do you have any ideas how to match both cameras?

Greetings cl10k

PS:

It's not only about black outlines, the postproduction will be more elaborate than this picture...

[admaiora]

Can you attach a step?

[cl10k]

Here is a stp-file and a png-drawing of a simple model.

The drawing is exactly the same perspective as the iso-view in Catia.

[admaiora · Accepted solution]

Which is your final intent?

Showcase rep is not a geometric iso view.

Perspective depends from focal lenght too.

You can try to adjust it in showcase in View>Camera Properties>Focal length

Try set the max focal lenght, 2000 you should get near at your desired view.

[cl10k]

My goal is to achieve something like this: click (with the solid parts rendered in Showcase...)

I did not know you could manually override the focal length in Showcase to such high values, as the slider only goes up to 150. Setting the focal length to 2000 works really well and fixed my problem!

Thank you very much !!!

[admaiora]

Hi cl10k,

have you consider to do it directly in Showcase?

There are pretty interesting Visual Styles.

[cl10k]

Raytracing is the only visual style I find acceptable - there are too many artifacts in all the other visual styles. You can even see it in the picture you posted. There are some errors on the rims.

Beside that, I need finer control over the separate elements of the composition and my workflow is mainly based on vector graphics (Illustrator). Showcase can't offer that. The rendering qualitaty is fine, but the possibilities are somewhat limited. Rendering in passes would be really nice (Shadow, Alpha, etc.) and would make postproduction so much easier.

But I'm really happy for the solution you gave me 😉