{"id":8451,"date":"2013-08-09T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Solid-Edge-Blog\/KeyShot-Live-Linking-in-ST6\/ba-p\/3274"},"modified":"2026-03-26T07:33:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:33:56","slug":"keyshot-live-linking-in-st6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/keyshot-live-linking-in-st6\/","title":{"rendered":"KeyShot Live Linking in ST6"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of us are in the business of making things and all of us want our products to reflect the hard work we\u2019ve put into them.  With ST6 and the new KeyShot plugin you can now make beautiful renderings and it doesn\u2019t take any hard work at all.<\/P><\/p>\n

For those of you who might not be familiar with KeyShot, here\u2019s the rundown:<\/P><\/p>\n

–          Created by Luxion which was founded in 2003<\/P>
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–          Uses a physically correct and CIE verified rendering engine featuring many innovations developed by Academy Award Winner Dr. Henrik Wann Jensen[1]<\/A><\/P>
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–          Uses real-time ray tracing technology<\/P>
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–          Has a wide array of animation options<\/P>
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–          Comes with a vast material library<\/P>
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–          Is entirely CPU based<\/P>
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–          Uses HDRI\u2019s for lighting<\/P><\/p>\n

Rendering comes as an afterthought to many designers.  When I\u2019m designing something I\u2019m usually more worried about the guy actually making my model than how pretty the picture is.  One of the other reasons rendering always ranked low on my to do list is because it can be very difficult, it takes a lot of time to set up lighting and materials and get everything looking just right; KeyShot has changed all of that and Solid Edge ST6 has taken it a step even further.  Companies like Fossil, Black & Decker, Skull Candy and Blizzard Entertainment (makers of StarCraft, World of WarCraft, etc.) all use KeyShot because it\u2019s so easy.  Ease of use has also made KeyShot very popular in the GrabCAD community.  In the past Rendering was always last on the list of things to do because once you get through setting up your model to be rendered, you don\u2019t want to have to go back and create a new rendering due to design changes.   With the new Live linking plugin for ST6 users can now setup their model in KeyShot and push any changes made afterwards in Solid Edge to their KeyShot model, while retaining everything they had already setup. <\/P><\/p>\n

With Live linking users are able to:[2]<\/A><\/P><\/p>\n