8 answers

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  Robert Voogt 10 months ago

  Liquid in glass

  1. Step 1

     First, the three methods from left to right.

     The left one is the most incorrect. There are 2 bodies, the glass and the liquid. The liquid body intersects with the glass part (both surfaces of the bodies are in the same space) creating a banding effect.

     The middle one has the liquid body scaled down a notch. This works for renders where the glass is in the distance. However as you can see, the liquid does not appear to go all the way to the outer surface of the glass body.

     The one on the right is the correct one, with the liquid "touching" the outer surface of the glass body.

     

  2. Step 2

     Here you can see what the difference is in solidworks

     

  3. Step 3

     The solution is to create the top surface of the liquid as a surface, and assigning the same material to the inner wall of the glass. Create the split line if its missing from your model.

     

  4. Step 4

     Here a reference to show that the liquid in a glass really does seem to touch the outer side of the glass.

     

  5. Step 5

     So, how to do this?
     First, create your glass.

     Then, add a "line" where the top of the liquid will be.

     

  6. Step 6

     Use the split tool to create a line in the surface, only select the line and the inside surface of the glass.

     

  7. Step 7

     And there you have it, an intersection line.

     

  8. Step 8

     Now, create a surface top, make sure the end of the sketch line touches the line you just made on the glass surface. Don't forget to add the vertical construction-line.

     

  9. Step 9

     And revolve this with surface revolve

     

  10. Step 10

      Then, give the inside surface of the glass and the top-surface the same material.

      And import your model to keyshot!

      

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  Alireza SKH 10 months ago

  hey Robert
  Great tutorial and Thx for sharing it
  as u know i want to make a great Keyshot Tips and i really love to have ur Tutorial in my collection.
  here is the Keyshot Tips just Add it there if u want
  http://grabcad.com/questions/23-_tutorial-keyshot-tips-step-by-step
  Thx again for ur great tutorials.

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  donaliokim 10 months ago

  great thanks!

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  Sedat CSKN 10 months ago

  THANK YOU

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  JF Brandon 10 months ago

  What if I tried to drop ice cubes into the glass? How would I render that?

  1. 
     JF Brandon 10 months ago

     Well what I meant is how to make the icecubes in the liquid look realistic. But animating and rendering dropping them in - I'd heard good things about Modo but hadn't explored them enough... thanks Scott.... and thanks Robert I can't wait to read about it!

  2. 
     Robert Voogt 10 months ago

     That is a good one, will try to make one about that. I didn't like this ice cube tutorial:
     http://blog.keyshot.com/how-render-realistic-ice-keyshot/

  3. 
     Scott Baugh 10 months ago

     Luxology's Modo has a Splash kit that creates Splashes and liquid droplets... They make that look super easy. I use Modo for anything like that, after all we are in the Customer Packaging business.

  4. 
     Robert Voogt 9 months ago

     http://grabcad.com/questions/how-to-correctly-render-ice-cubes-with-keyshot

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  Per 9 months ago

  Thanks!

  1. 
     Robert Voogt 9 months ago

     you're welcome.

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  jairo luis 8 months ago

  friend can be more detailed in the tutorial

  1. 
     Robert Voogt 8 months ago

     Hi Jairo, how do you mean "can be more detailed"?

  2. 
     jairo luis 8 months ago

     Friend tell the steps to do this tutorial

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  Francisco 6 months ago

  hey, thanks for the tutorial, but still i need more details in the last steps and applying materials in keyshot
  thanks in advance

  1. 
     Robert Voogt 6 months ago

     Hi Francisco, that is very easy. You have to give in solidworks all the parts that have a different material a different color. Therefore I made the liquid blue and the glass grey. (color doesn't matter)
     In keyshot simply select the material you want from the library and drag it onto the model. So you drag a liquid material onto the blue part of the model, and a glass material on the grey part of the model.