SOLIDWORKS Visualize Video: What's New in SOLIDWORKS 2021 - Visualize SOLIDWORKS® Visualize is a separately purchased product that you can use with SOLIDWORKS Standard, SOLIDWORKS Professional, and SOLIDWORKS Premium, or as a completely separate application. Contents Capping Cut Planes When you create a section view, you can cap the geometry that the cut plane slices. Draco Compression for SOLIDWORKS Visualize GLTF and GLB Exporter You can use Draco compression when exporting 3D scenes from SOLIDWORKS Visualize to .glTF and .glB files. Support for SOLIDWORKS Configurations You can specify configurations of a SOLIDWORKS part or assembly model to be available when you open the model in SOLIDWORKS Visualize. Toon Shading Toon shading mimics the style of a comic book or cartoon and provides a characteristic paper-like texture. Toon shading is available only with Visualize Professional. Displacement Mapping New options in the Appearances tab provide more overall control of displacements. Shaders SOLIDWORKS Visualize uses a rendering technique that adds light to most appearance types. This makes it easier to generate first-class commercial looks without violating the photo-realistic principles of physically based appearances. User Interface Enhancements for SOLIDWORKS Visualize User interface enhancements for SOLIDWORKS Visualize include improvements for animations, properties, decals, and appearances. Render Layers In the Output Tools dialog box, Render Layers replaces Render Output Passes for generating specialized output layers that you can use in post-processing software. Render Layers, which uses Iray’s compositing elements, provides massively improved performance by rendering simultaneously rather than sequentially. Viewport Settings Dialog Box The Viewport Settings dialog box provides quick access directly in the viewport to some frequently used settings.