Simply push a button on the Revit plug-in and seconds later the model appeared in Enscape. The Enscape application was essentially a real-time window into your BIM model. With very little effort you could go from Revit to Enscape and explore the nicely rendered model on a desktop display and inside VR. We’ve been big fans of the real-time rendering and VR software since the 1.8 release when we tested it out for this ‘Revit to VR’ feature.īack then, the software was incredibly easy to use, and that’s what made it so appealing. Greg Corke explores Enscape 3.0.įor readers of AEC Magazine, Enscape probably needs little introduction. A real-time realistic graphic engine like Enscape gives this result in seconds allowing us to investigate more viewpoints and entire routes in the time that it normally took to make several images.With usability now driving its development, the popular real time visualisation tool has finally broken free of the BIM plug-in shackles that originally brought it success. Since some of these images took hours to render (depending on the quality and complexity of the scene and lighting) it was a slow and laborious process.
Until now this was mostly done by imagination or pointing a camera and ray-trace rendering one image at a time. One of the most important aspects of architectural design is predicting light effects that will happen in a space.
This gives architects new tools to visually test the effects of the modeled spaces with realistic textures and light, thus allowing them to make improvements in the design before documenting it for construction. The folks at Inreal technologies understood this and developed a Revit plugin called Enscape3d, that directly uses the Revit project database to map and render a real-time walk-able export in minutes. Their popularity made hardware more powerful and affordable every year, and we have now reached a point where real-time graphic processing engines for games can become a powerful new tool for architectural studies. Video game engines have a long history to following our latest graphic and display technologies.
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