KeyShot® Now Available with PTC® Creo® 2.0 Academic Edition

by | Nov 21, 2012

Irvine, CALIFORNIA, Nov 21, 2012 – Luxion, a leading developer of advanced rendering and lighting technology and maker of KeyShot, the first real time ray tracing and global illumination program, with PTC, developers of the Creo design software, is please to announce a special offering that brings together KeyShot and PTC Creo design software for people across academia.

Luxion is a long time valued member of the PTC PartnerAdvantage™ Program at the Gold Tier, and one of the first PTC software development partners to integrate their product with PTC Creo. With this tight integration between KeyShot and PTC Creo, users can design their 3D models in PTC Creo and import those files via a plugin or directly into the KeyShot real-time rendering environment.

The KeyShot 3 + PTC Creo bundle comes with the full versions of both products – PTC Creo with all apps and extensions, including PTC Creo Parametric™ and PTC Creo Direct™, and KeyShot 3 with Animation and KeyShotVR. The license is a 1-year term license with no software expiration.


KeyShot and PTC Creo 2.0 now available together in the PTC Web Store to students and faculty.

Sharing a strong focus on education, Luxion and PTC have partnered to bring this integrated software,with a robust design workflow to students and faculty around the world. With the combination of KeyShot and PTC Creo users will be able to create photographic images and animations of their designs in a matter of seconds.

“The PTC Academic Program is excited about partnering with Luxion,” says Mark Fischer, Sr. Director, PTC Education Program. “This new offering enables students and educators to access PTC Creo and KeyShot at a low cost through the PTC Web Store. Now, at a click of a button, users can easily render and animate their designs using the KeyShot solution and see their ideas come to life.”

Pricing and Availability
The KeyShot 3 + PTC Creo 2.0 Academic Edition is available immediately in the PTC Web Store for $294.99 per license. Additionally, Luxion offers a special program for students, teachers and schools to adopt KeyShot as part of their curriculum. With options for full-featured single user license or floating license Lab packs, students and schools can be up and running with KeyShot in minutes on Mac or PC. For pricing and more, please visit https://www.keyshot.com/buy/education/.

About Luxion
Luxion is a leading developer of advanced 3D rendering and lighting technology. KeyShot is the first realtime ray tracing application that uses a physically correct render engine based on scientific research in the areas of scientifically accurate material representation and global illumination. Addressing the visualization needs of designers, engineers, marketing professionals, photographers and CG specialists, KeyShot breaks down the complexity of creating photographic images and animations from 3D digital data. Luxion’s customer list includes many of the Fortune 1000 product manufacturers and major industrial design companies including Dell, HP, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, Procter & Gamble, IDEO and SMART Design. Visit www.keyshot.com for more information.

Press contact:
Luxion, Inc.
Josh Mings
Marketing Manager
josh@luxion.com
+1-(949) 274-8871

KeyShot is a registered trademark of Luxion ApS. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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