KeyShot Studio Subscription (Formerly Keyshot Pro)

KeyShot Studio Annual Subscription (Formerly KeyShot Pro) – Create Professional 3D Visuals with Precision

KeyShot Studio (formerly KeyShot Pro) makes it easy for designers and engineers to create high-quality 3D visuals and animations. With its real-time rendering and intuitive controls, KeyShot Studio simplifies complex visualisation without compromising detail.

KeyShot Studio is well-suited to a wide range of industries. Our KeyShot customers include product and industrial designers, vehicle design companies, jewellers and architects.

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Why Designers and Engineers Choose KeyShot Studio?

KeyShot Studio produces high-quality 3D renders fast, with minimal setup. Its real-time rendering lets you adjust lighting, materials and cameras instantly, removing the wait for render queues. Built for designers, engineers and visualisers, it combines speed, accuracy and ease of use for professional results in design and marketing. The intuitive interface on Mac and Windows is fully customisable, so you can arrange tools your way and work efficiently. With over 10,000 companies using KeyShot, tutorials and resources are easy to find. Plus, if you buy KeyShot through us, you’ll have exclusive access to CAD Software Direct’s support team to get you up and running.

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Rendering Output

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New In KeyShot 2025

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Light Layers – KeyShot adds the ability to fine-tune and create lighting compromises, allowing users to get the perfect lighting on each surface.

Randomisation Nodes – Keyshot Studio adds the ability to randomise textures and their values, like rotation and colour. This gives your scene a sense of randomness with colours and textures, enhancing the realism in the final render. 

Cloud Library Enhancements – The cloud library has now replaced the legacy library, bringing faster performance and more content with the ability to download assets directly into Studio faster than before.

AMD GPU Support – Adding in these GPU’s widens the range of machines that are now compatible with Keyshot, allowing for greater compatibility and flexibility. While this is in Beta with a limited number of GPU’s supported, expect more updates to come for AMD users.

Colour Picker and New Palette – The colour picker has seen some general improvements for improved ease of use. Studio also adds in a Palette of 175 new colours from Pantone Dualities.

Keyshot for SOLIDWORKS – The latest release also brings much-needed improvements and bug fixes to this plugin, allowing greater collaboration between your software.

Licences and Search Bar – More search bars have been added to list views, allowing you to find what you need quicker and easier, along with this the licence activation has never been easier, truly streamlining your entire Keyshot experience

Performance Increases – Up to 20% faster rendering performance. Up to 60% faster exports with the new Export Mode. Multiple improvements to performance, ease of use and GPU performance

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KeyShot Key Features

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Geometry View – This highly responsive secondary real-time view provides an additional camera viewpoint, 1:1 animation playback, camera path animation control and more.

Integration and File Support – Import files from the top 3D software while retaining accuracy and avoiding rework.

Denoiser & Firefly Removal – Working with both CPU and GPU Mode to eliminate noise, the denoiser creates smooth, fast and beautiful renderings in the real-time view and final render output.

Collision Detection and Settle – KeyShot includes basic Collision Detection of objects, along with the ability to Settle items on other objects and the ground.

Sun & Sky – Adjust the date, start, and end time or apply individual keyframes for precise control over sun and sky animations. Plus, drag and drop positioning of the sun with additional settings to dial in your own Sun & Sky environment.

Occlusion Ground Shadows – Quickly and easily toggle occlusion ground shadows on or off.

Reflection Contrast – The ground material in KeyShot provides complete control over reflection contrast.

Panoramic Lens – Enable Panoramic Lens to use Spherical or Cube Map mode in real-time or render out to create spherical EXR images to use as environments to light other scenes or load in VR

Shift Lens – KeyShot has a Shift Lens setting with an Estimate Vertical Shift function that allows the verticals in a scene to be aligned with the click of a button, which is particularly useful for architectural and interior visualisation.

Model Sets – Create different variations of models and parts in a single scene, show models in different states or using different materials.

Multi-layer PSD – When outputting rendered still images and Animation frames as PSD and PSD 32 Bit format, Render Passes and Render Layers will be included as individual layers contained in the Photoshop file

Metallic Paint – Create deep, rich candy coats with the new texturable clear-coat colour with complete control over clear-coat thickness.

Toon Material – More control over contours and the ability to change shadow colour and texture, or change the visibility of shadows produced by light materials.

Material Templates – Material templates have been completely updated to make it faster and easier to set up and apply materials across all parts at import.

Texture Mapping – Apply textures faster with the interactive mapping tool. Apply textures using Tri-planar, Tile UV or apply video maps.

Procedurals Colour and Number – Fade animations now make it possible to quickly adjust material colours or settings, change material opacity, or fade lights.

Unit-Aware Settings – Adjust your material and texture settings using actual values based on the units set for your scene.

Material Graph – The Material Graph opens in a separate window and displays materials, textures, labels and more as nodes in a graph view to visualise connections and relationships within complex materials.

Materials on Labels – Materials and textures can now be applied to labels to enhance appearance and realism. Having this flexibility allows for a more accurate communication of labels and their true physical properties.

Occlusion Procedural – This procedural texture type adds proximity-based shading to a material. It can be used to accentuate or augment the self shadows cast on a material and, along with the Material Graph, to create interesting texture effects based on occluded and unoccluded areas.

Choose Your Environment – KeyShot features the ability to apply multiple environments to a scene, switch it as quick as you like and see the results instantly. Choose a studio, an outdoor scene or position sun and sky exactly where you want them.

Integrated HDRI Editor – The KeyShot HDRI Editor is integrated in the Environment tab for a fluid environment editing experience.

HDRI Gradients – Gradients are included in the HDRI Editor for both HDRI light pins and as an additional background option.

HDRI Export – Set up your lighting and save it out. KeyShot allows you to export your HDRI environments in HDR, EXR and HDZ formats.

Re-Tessellate Models – Models imported with NURBS included can be re-tessellated directly in the scene without re-importing the model. This tool allows you to fine-tune the tessellation quality of entire models or individual parts in a scene to optimise appearance and file size.

Customise Your Interface – You have more flexibility in the KeyShot user interface with the ability to create and save multiple Workspaces built around the way you work. Customise tab appearance and location or dock, undock and stack windows any way you like.  

Scripting – Create Python scripts or use KeyShot’s range of pre-created scripts for automation, batch processing, and more within KeyShot Studio or via the terminal.

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import your model into Keyshot

KeyShot Studio supports 34 3D formats, including popular CAD formats such as SOLIDWORKS, AutoCAD, CATIA, and Rhino. This wide compatibility ensures you can easily import and work with your models, allowing you to focus on creativity and innovation without worrying about file compatibility. KeyShot ensures that you can work with virtually any file format