We recently updated you on our broader vision to reinvent the way products are brought to market, and today we’re introducing KeyShot Hub, a first step towards unifying design teams in the product design-to-market journey.
After decades of working with design teams of all sizes, we know that creating beautiful designs takes more than artistic talent. Your team needs to work together, incorporate feedback, keep track of specifications and revise, revise, revise.
With KeyShot Hub, your team will have even more support to cover everything it takes to get the job done. Improve collaboration, streamline workflows, and track iterations, all in one centralized place. With KeyShot Hub, you can focus your energy on what you do best: designing impactful products that customers love.
KeyShot Hub: Designed for design teams
It’s no wonder that design teams are struggling to manage their work today. With files stored on separate computers, feedback provided in separate channels, and versions frequently changing, it’s easy for important information to get lost, and it’s hard for team members to navigate the chaos together. After hearing about these challenges from designers in teams of all sizes, KeyShot developers came up with a solution: KeyShot Hub.
Organized project assets
KeyShot Hub connects design teams to work together on projects and library assets. Team members can work directly from the Hub to access their KeyShot Studio data (materials, scenes, renderings) as well as manage other project files such as CAD models and Adobe files.
- Centralize project files and library data
- Safeguard designers from creating duplicate files and data
- Ensure all team members work on the most recent files
Centralized feedback
It’s easy to lose important feedback when it’s delivered via a variety of channels – email, messages, meetings. Hub makes it easy to keep track of all feedback in one place. Reviewers can make notes directly on the visuals, so feedback is never lost in the shuffle.
- Entire team can view, comment and understand design decisions
- Annotation tool allows reviewers to make comments directly on visuals
- Save time and avoid confusion
Stay synced between KeyShot Studio and KeyShot Hub
Adjustments made to Hub-based assets (materials, textures, models) are automatically updated in KeyShot Studio libraries, ensuring everyone is working on the right content.
- Publish documentation directly to KeyShot Hub from KeyShot Studio
- Adjustments made to Hub-based assets and tags are reflected in Studio libraries
- Delete or create new tags for KeyShot-generated documents and assets within Studio and Hub
Details make all the difference
You know that details make or break a design. We’ve carefully honed the features in KeyShot Hub to help your design team with every task in their workflow.
Check in/check out files
“Check out” files to prevent others from making changes and check them back in when finished, preventing file corruption and unnecessary overlap
Version history, audit trail & quick side-by-side comparisons
Hub provides an automated time history of file versions. Roll back to previous versions when needed and look at the audit trail to see who has accessed or changed files.
Hub also provides a way for you to quickly compare visuals side-by-side with changes automatically identified from the metadata. Instead of having to open similar images in another application like Photoshop, in Hub you can select two images to scrub side-to-side to see the visual differences, and you can also select any two files to compare the metadata and the Hub system will highlight any differences between the files.
Flexible tagging
Not only can you categorize and sub-categorize files and data in KeyShot Hub, but files can be represented in multiple locations as a single file. This was created to dramatically reduce the need for duplicate or copied content, providing an easy-to-search database that can be organized by team, project, product, or brand.
Share multiple assets easily
Need to send out several images for review? Hub allows you to select multiple assets and send them out as a link or a “collection.” The recipient doesn’t need access to Hub to view and download the assets, and you can set an optional security setting to revoke access after a set date.
Design teams have needs that go beyond basic file storage
The static filing systems you have relied on in the past simply aren’t sufficient to manage thousands of renderings and revisions. KeyShot Hub was created to keep your team together every step of the way, as the central place for ideas to converge, evolve and come to life.
