#ARCHICAD RENDERING UPDATE#
#ARCHICAD RENDERING SOFTWARE#

Reconsider things like reflection, patterns of the surfaces, density, transparency etc. Analyze the nature of the materials you are going to use – rendering machines are trying to simulate reality, accordingly they are imitating their presence in certain situation.

You have to think about what you want to show and present. Think about the scene – This may sound naive, but this first step has a huge impact on your future work.Therefore, here are some basic tips before starting with the render settings: These versions are not so complicated to use, even if you are not skilled BIM modeler, and have a settings tool which is easy to use and modify.įirstly, it is important to speak about some general rules, which are not directly connected to the direct render setting, but still make a huge impact on the final product. We are using the latest versions (18 or 19) of ARCHICAD for rendering here.

#ARCHICAD RENDERING SOFTWARE#

In this archicad tutorial we want to take a look at the 3D modelling and rendering software by Graphisoft and which settings can be used to create architecture visualization of a day and a night time interior scenery. Doing what’s easy in ArchiCAD and then the rest in Illustrator.Basic Tips to Render your Architectural Scenery with ARCHICAD I think now I couldn’t probably make much better use of putting the two programs together. And I realized for the simple diagrams and rendered plans I was doing, I could just stay within ArchiCAD. And actually that ArchiCAD to Illustrator process was my first big ‘ah ha!’ moment with ArchiCAD. Granted the end result would be more limited than what could be done in Illustrator (I was never doing anything that complicated, though it sounds like you were doing something much more interesting). Then I learned that much of it could just be done in ArchiCAD with copy and past (you could copy and past 2 3D documents on top of each other and then do some wizardy with pensets). When I first came to ArchiCAD I would do the same. I spent the last few years of school doing the autocad to illustrator to make pretty workflow. Like this video? Follow Shoegnome on Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube for more!Īnd if you bring them in as vectors (pdf or dwg) instead of say a jpg or tif into Illustrator then there’s a lot of cool things you can do.

#ARCHICAD RENDERING UPDATE#

Update : ArchiCAD 18 offers some new ways to make this technique even better click here to watch another way to create an awesome multi-layer rendering. Also to get better materials in ArchiCAD, watch this video on stealing them from SketchUp. Want to take the image you created a step further? Check out David’s advice on alternatives to photorealistic renderings. Just remember that it won’t be the exact same steps or locations… Enjoy the Video! If it can be done in Photoshop, it can probably be done in Gimp. I imagine going from Photoshop to Gimp is like going from ArchiCAD to Revit or vice versa. And I believe there’s an Illustrator type program as well created by the same group. If you’re not familiar with Gimp, check it out.

It’s a great program, but it is just different enough from Photoshop that I feel like I’m either wearing mittens or have had a few beers. I think I succeeded.ĭisclaimer: I’m using Gimp in the video and I am still fairly clumsy in the software. I was looking to create images from ArchiCAD that appealed to former coworkers who only liked stuff from SketchUp. And that’s actually where the original idea came from. I like that the final product mimics some of the qualities of an image from SketchUp. The images were combined in a 3rd party program like Photoshop or Gimp. The final rendering is a combination of images from the Sketch Rendering Engine and the Internal Rendering Engine found in ArchiCAD. And you could imagine that with a little more effort scalies, trees, etc. It’s not the most complex image, but it’s fast and easy. The above rendering is fairly typical of what I show clients these days.

Archicad rendering