Compare EFI Metrix Planning and Imposition Software и KeyShot

Benefits:

Great for Calculating sheets needed and planning Job Layouts for Lithography.

Drawbacks:

Big learning curve, but once you see the workflow you kinda get it.

Summary:

I really like it... it helps save a ton of time and calculating.

Benefits:

It does a very good job of dealing with ganged jobs. Metrix will read in the estimated hours and material and the associated cost and then creates ... Read more

It does a very good job of dealing with ganged jobs. Metrix will read in the estimated hours and material and the associated cost and then creates an optimized plan. When committed back to the MIS software it will update the plan and associated estimated hours and material based on the Metrix layouts. In addition, it will distribute cost collected for time and material based on distribution on the percent of the layout the jobs use.

Drawbacks:

What is the best was related to jobs created from estimates. What it does worst is try to provide optimized plans for estimates as it relates to Pa... Read more

What is the best was related to jobs created from estimates. What it does worst is try to provide optimized plans for estimates as it relates to Pace's MIS cross part optimization. It does a terrible job of communicating special colors through the XML.

Summary:

EFI has owned Metrix for years and has been slow to develop solutions for its MIS integrated version. My experience is that much of this is due to ... Read more

EFI has owned Metrix for years and has been slow to develop solutions for its MIS integrated version. My experience is that much of this is due to the fact that EFI has moved its software development overseas. The developers rarely get it right the first, second or third time.

Benefits:

Lots of options for estimating, planning and prepress.

Drawbacks:

Software upgrades seem to always have issues that take awhile to correct. EFI support is really hit and miss if they can fix an issue. I get a lot... Read more

Software upgrades seem to always have issues that take awhile to correct. EFI support is really hit and miss if they can fix an issue. I get a lot of "Future update" answers to the issues we have. My team has not been happy with Metrix over the last few "upgrades".

Summary:

Metrix software was the best thing out there for quite a few years but recently it is becoming a struggle to use. I believe that once EFI took over... Read more

Metrix software was the best thing out there for quite a few years but recently it is becoming a struggle to use. I believe that once EFI took over the software, it changed!

Benefits:

It does the functions that we are looking for (impositions mostly) quickly and efficiently.

Drawbacks:

Each upgrade seems to break our workflow and is painful to get what we consider common sense addressed. Support isnt always helpful and core change... Read more

Each upgrade seems to break our workflow and is painful to get what we consider common sense addressed. Support isnt always helpful and core changes made to the software arent always in the release notes. We have open cases with EFI to address these issues and have moved past them with rollback and skipping versions to meet our end user needs.

Summary:

We use this daily to create impositions. Some features have reduced functionality after an upgrade, but are eventually addressed. The software is... Read more

We use this daily to create impositions. Some features have reduced functionality after an upgrade, but are eventually addressed. The software is usually a MacOS version behind, which doesnt seem to bother our end users.

Benefits:

While Keyshot has been my go-to render software for the past almost 10 years, the new Keyshot 9 really impressed me. I can now use RGB codes for di... Read more

While Keyshot has been my go-to render software for the past almost 10 years, the new Keyshot 9 really impressed me. I can now use RGB codes for diffuse of a material, and the color will stay true to the code, it saved me so much time creating new materials. The stock materials are much better too.

Drawbacks:

I hope Keyshot can add a stock "sunlight" or "outdoors" option for rendering larger objects or environment.

Summary:

I have been using Keyshot for almost 10 years now, ever since Keyshot 2. It never let me down. Works great with Rhino. Awesome when you have a deta... Read more

I have been using Keyshot for almost 10 years now, ever since Keyshot 2. It never let me down. Works great with Rhino. Awesome when you have a detailed model.

Benefits:

Before we used this software, we had our CAD-software with the small integrated rendering function. But those never looked good or some realistic. ... Read more

Before we used this software, we had our CAD-software with the small integrated rendering function. But those never looked good or some realistic. KeyShot is very different, if you are able to set all right parameters, you have to look very often, if it is a picture or rendering! Great!

Drawbacks:

In the beginning, the software is not that easy to use. There are so many settings and controller you have to move, to get a good looking rendering... Read more

In the beginning, the software is not that easy to use. There are so many settings and controller you have to move, to get a good looking rendering. And you need a good graphics card or processor, if you do not have it, the rendering time rises much!

Summary:

Benefits:

I liked that it didn't take me long to become familiar with the functionality and use of this product.

Drawbacks:

I am not a poweruser when it comes to 3D and maybe this is a great bit of software but we were using it to handle 3D models of cars coupled with ba... Read more

I am not a poweruser when it comes to 3D and maybe this is a great bit of software but we were using it to handle 3D models of cars coupled with backplate images in a teaching environment for photographers. There exists now other software options that might work better that you might already have on your desktop. Highly likely though that if 3D is your thing this might be a great software solution

Summary:

Benefits:

+Variety of materials and their editing panel +The interface is designed for "Computer Aided 3D" users, and in order to use this application, it is... Read more

+Variety of materials and their editing panel +The interface is designed for "Computer Aided 3D" users, and in order to use this application, it is necessary to make 3D production first. + Surface reflections are *above* real quality. (Marketing images in some concepts, exaggeration is made to convey this. Infrastructure enables processing.)

Drawbacks:

-The intersection details, which we call corner and border, are the main factors that new users cannot focus very much on, but that take the produc... Read more

-The intersection details, which we call corner and border, are the main factors that new users cannot focus very much on, but that take the product to the next level during the visualization phase. It needs a feature that can bring the product to a higher point by bringing the details to the fore. -+ (Notr ) Being able to choose the camera angle and rendering and animation depending on this is part of this job, but the new user is inexperienced in this regard. At this point, the animations in the stock scenes contain parts of the product, but there is no scene pattern without the product. In line with the dimensions that should be added here, a different mold should be created for a product that opens upwards and a different mold for a product that opens to the side should be added to the "default" process. (The camera angle change and presentation concept should be prepared in advance in the patterns here, just like a showcase design) (Basic example: A showcase with bases with half pyramids, cones and rectangular prisms will bring the product to the fore. )

Summary:

Contest preparation processes are much shorter than a product production process. And here the aim is to reflect the concept in the best way possib... Read more

Contest preparation processes are much shorter than a product production process. And here the aim is to reflect the concept in the best way possible. Again, in this field, I prefer "keyshot" in the visualization field.