Posts by vgeorgiou

vgeorgiou , I'm afraid, ArchiVision models are not yet officially supported by Enscape for SketchUp. Support for them is generally filed as a feature request on our agenda so I gave the topic a further upvote through your voice.

Also, we have another topic on our agenda to allow you to import your own models into the asset library. Maybe this would be of interest to you? If so, I'll happily give the topic a upvote through your voice as well, just get back to me.

Grateful for your response and upvote.

It probably would be of interest, it thats in the pipeline. Though thinking of our workflow, as we are converting objects through Archvision for Revit it would be good to have to avoid doing this again through Simlab or something similar for Sketchup aswell. The Archvision tool being available for both programs is hugely beneficial and an efficient use of time for us when working between the two programs and that inter-connectivity is so crucial if we are using Enscape for both.

So if both can be done together and released as an upgraded feature, then great.

Thanks

Having to post this again as my last query was closed off as answered but there was no response to it.

Any further update on this issue? I have version 2.3.2 Enscape version at the moment. So has this been resolved in 2,4?

We contacted Archvision and they said that the issue of not being able to show the rpc models in Enscape was down to you guys needing to resolve a couple of things. Not sure what but it would be good to know what the latest on this is as it would be good to have the models we've created for Revit also to be visible through Sketchup / Enscape.

Thanks.

Any further update on this issue? I have version 2.3.2 Enscape version at the moment. So has this been resolved in 2,4?

We contacted Archvision and they said that the issue of not being able to show the rpc models in Enscape was down to you guys needing to resolve a couple of things. Not sure what but it would be good to know what the latest on this is as it would be good to have the models we've created to be visible in Enscape.

Thanks.

Thanks again.

Is this a feature under development? It would be incredibly useful as you can see. In any case something to add to the feature board.

Ok great. Thanks Demian.

In that case, can I tag on to this discussion how best to get Enscape views to match the Revit view? At least as a workaround I can composite the exports.

I've tried to match the views but to no avail.

Hi

I'm looking for some help on visualizing a point cloud survey in Enscape but not having much success. Is this possible at the moment?

Thanks

Ah yes. Didn't work the first time I tried that for some reason. But got it now. Thanks Demian.

Hi

Is there a way to change the colour of the Sphere lights so rather than seeing the stark whitish colours, we can create more warmer tones?

Im trying to do a dusk view and the omni or sphere lighting comes out quite poorly colour wise.

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Hi Demian

Yes the grass is fine, what I couldn't work out, according to the Revit material Enscape tutorial page, was that it mentions inserting these key words to get the different types, but I didn't know where exactly...is it the material name itself or in the information segment, which i've shown in the screenshot above. Because I couldn't see any differences when typing those words in.

Though from your last point, this only works in the preview version not the current main release? is that right? I'm using Revit 2018 with the official release of 2.3. So that may explain why?

Hi there

Apologies for the stupid question but i'm trying to follow your method of using the keywords for grass to get the varied qualities in the material browser but nothing changes in the render window.

Can you please show me where these keywords are meant to be inserted?

thanks

Grass

Yes, we have it installed for Revit and it so we tried using it in Sketchup, but I think i'm currently having the same problem as you regarding linking the path.

If you could keep me posted. Thanks

Hi

Do Rpc models created in Archvision for Revit also work in Sketchup/Enscape?

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ball4872  Canacan Our asset library for Revit, SketchUp and Rhino will bring the answer in October. I presume you'll like it.

Ok this sounds all very exiting...are you saying that come Octobers update there's to be an asset library containing a selection of Laubwerk trees / plants etc?

Reason I ask is we are having such difficulty within our workflow integrating really high quality trees into Revit.

Sketchup - not a problem but Revit seems so backward to get any decent vegetation. The content on Archvision isn't great we find and any which way we look there doesn't seem to be a smooth workflow without having to resort to Speedtree / Evermotion and Max models which are crazy hi poly models.

We would be happy to subscribe or buy something that offers 'reasonable' hi res 3d trees / planting for Revit but theirs nothing out there that provides this, without going through 3-4 third party workflow processes.

I've done some tests using Quixels free stuff and converted them into Rpc's which look great, but they don't have any trees just a few plants and things likes rocks and stuff. Not much use for us.

So if this is the case - it cant come any sooner.

Some great tips from both - thank you.

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What I have done in the past is...

- set up a plan view with a section

- Adjust the lighting/contrast for inside (White external areas) & render

- Adjust the lighting/contrast for outside (Black internal areas) & render

- use photoshop (Gimp/PhotoPaint...) to combine the two images and get the best of both.

And/or you could adjust the time to night and set up the internal lighting properly.

There is also a trick you can do to generate floor plans from sections, but Enscape does not show line-work so it requires a bit of colouring-in to work:

• - Create a section
• - R-click on the section plane and 'create group from section'
• - move this group so that it's away from the model (The group automatically becomes selected when generated, so then I hit [M], {click}, [up], 10000, [return])
• - Turn off the section (because if it's moved up 10000, the group is now hidden by the section.)
• - draw a rectangle over the top of the section line group so that it is fully contained within it
• - select the new rectangle and all the section group, then group these together and enter the group
• - Explode everything - if something is still selected, it's a group and it needs to be exploded; explode again - and again - and again... (You need to do this so that the rectangle you drew breaks into sections to colour in)
• - Now pick a colour and fill-in the internal walls, floors, etc. (This may need you to draw over some lines again to get it to recognise the shapes.)
• - (Note that this new group is perfect for adding dimensions into because all the end points and lines are easily snapable.)

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Point taken regarding lighting not affecting the section in the real world without any windows, which is the case for me. An option as a feature would be useful I agree though.

It was just to get a render of the plan in general. Does that mean I need to cut an actual section using a plugin tool?

Hi

Trying to show a cut through slice using sketchup's section tool but it shows black in Enscape - any reason why?

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Brilliant. Will check it out. Thanks Thomas

Can you tell me where you got these trees from shown in your marketing releases?

And could you also advise if these are rendered from Sketchup or Revit? The trees look very realistic and we have struggled to get this kind of quality of trees from Archvision.

Thanks

Fair enough. I'm trying to get our company to upgrade but with a high level of difficulty. And i think this just might be the argument that does it.

i've taken a screenshot of the version.

How do i send the project?