Maxwell Render Suite 2.7

Review posted February 26, 2009

I am a retail custom design jeweler using a combination of cad programs to help design jewelry. I chose Maxwell Render to render my designs created in Rhino. The Maxwell render software by far has generated the most realistic renderings of my jewelry. It is also quite simple to setup and use. The only negative I can say is the render times are considerably longer than any other program I have used, but the realism of the pictures more than compensates for the time.

Review posted November 1, 2007

Maxwell produces amazing results. It's impossible to argue that fact, and after using the trial for only a week we went out and purchased two licenses for it. The only drawback is that it takes an incredibly large amount of time to get good-quality images (some of our more complex scenes are pushing 20 hours per frame on a Dual processor, Dual-Core Xeon machine) and this is impossible for us to do real animation with it at this point. If you have 100 computers with at least 12ghz per machine, you might be able to do animation but it would still take days to get more than a few seconds of it.

Overall, great product for still images, but wish it was faster!

Review posted July 3, 2007

Best render ever, much better as PhotoWorks, few errors as SolidWorks plugin, hope the next upgrade will repair it.