Sketchrender Posted August 9, 2010 Share Posted August 9, 2010 The office I am working in is finaly getting into Revit. The big question. Can it do rendered eleavtion at high quality ?, or What is the best and fastest option for last minute HQ rendered Elevations ? Anybody have a good quality example and the workflow so a whole team can jump on at the last minute and not rely on one person. Thank you phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tecton3d Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 (edited) I haven't found a way to do orthographic renderings in Revit which is very annoying considering it's an architecture specific software. There might be a tool out there one could purchase for the task... but that's a guess. For High Quality ~ there is always the quick .fbx export to Max and render from there... Edited August 10, 2010 by tecton3d Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sketchrender Posted August 10, 2010 Author Share Posted August 10, 2010 I thought it would do the ortho rendered elevation no problem. You see there is a problem that they want them to scale and from max that is an issue. Thank you phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tecton3d Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 I thought it would do the ortho rendered elevation no problem. You see there is a problem that they want them to scale and from max that is an issue. Thank you phil the workaround I've found is to export the elevation from revit/autocad and overlay that onto the rendered image in Illustrator/photoshop, etc. then hide or delete the CAD work...adjust the size of the rendered image to fit the line drawing exported from CAD and viola. Of course, you need to be somewhere close with resolution on the rendered image (that is scaled up) so it doesn't look like rubbish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 Revit can't reder ortho views? Who do they think their customers are? If you turn off any context that would be in the way, you can always fake an elevation by putting a camera a mile away with a tiny, tiny view angle (zoomed way in). Just make sure your camera is at 0/90 degrees from the ground/facade. There will little to no noticeable perspective so it'll be as good as an elevation. And nobody's going to build from a rendering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tecton3d Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 Revit can't reder ortho views? Who do they think their customers are? If you turn off any context that would be in the way, you can always fake an elevation by putting a camera a mile away with a tiny, tiny view angle (zoomed way in). Just make sure your camera is at 0/90 degrees from the ground/facade. There will little to no noticeable perspective so it'll be as good as an elevation. And nobody's going to build from a rendering. no kidding, this would be a very helpful feature I'd love to see implemented next round. Since the model already contains enough visualization data to get a "decent" elevated revit rendering, it would save us architects a TON of time instead of exporting the linework of the elevation and photoshopping it. I just did a 200,000k sq ft interiors project with an enormous amount of interior elevations for presentations. I had to export every view as linework and photohop the color/material in manually... it would have saved me hours of work! It does not make sense that revit can't render orthos. your technique should provide a nice workaround. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sketchrender Posted August 16, 2010 Author Share Posted August 16, 2010 I can't believe it can't render an ortho view. Seems like the natural thing to do. They might not build from it, but they will use it to get them through planning. They also can't build from the sections as they have to be taken out and embellished. That as they say it Horse Sh*t, it should be able to do it. Madness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tecton3d Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 That as they say it Horse Sh*t, it should be able to do it. Madness. indeed!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sketchrender Posted August 16, 2010 Author Share Posted August 16, 2010 indeed!! Thank you my good man for the back-up................ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAYMOND Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 The office I am working in is finaly getting into Revit. The big question. Can it do rendered eleavtion at high quality ?, or What is the best and fastest option for last minute HQ rendered Elevations ? Anybody have a good quality example and the workflow so a whole team can jump on at the last minute and not rely on one person. Thank you phil yes, this is very easy to do... we do it all the time first hit the 3d tool (the one with the little house on it) then from the floater hit the front, right or whatever you want, set up lighting and render away... save the image it can be scaled as wanted in the sheets, and updated as you make upgrades. rendered views are very popular and clients are expecting them... shadow especially show the depth Ray honolulu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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