Probably photoview 360 for solidworks.
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If I can get my hands on the stl files for these parts I would be more than happy to do blender rendering of them.
*blendering
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I have used Solidworks visualize, photoview, fusion rendering, and keyshot. While watching that last one render I learned about doing it in blender, watched a ton of videos. The downside is Blender only uses Stl’s if I am not mistaken?
Those other three import the real geometry and materials and textures set by me, which makes it nearly plug and play.
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Lol 
Gotcha, I’m blender you can assign materials to the stls but I am not sure how you import the materials. You can also import other types. Might be worth some investigation.
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Blender will take obj as well. That will let you do separate textures and whatnot.
Well I tried again today, everything connected fine…the laptop has some “killer” software on it that kept automatically selecting the faster network. That took a while to sort out and about 20 trips up and down the stairs.
After that I could not get them actually working together. I am done killing time on this but it was fun. I am going to give blender a shot next time to see how it goes. Since I found out this stuff is more than $2k, and the fusion version doesn’t seem to get the best of reviews or the standalone render…I am going to buy a lottery ticket to try and get the current deluxe Solidworks package. If not, blender here I come.
Sneak peak at this one.
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