DETAIL WAREHOUSE, AVAIL & PANOPLY
DETAIL WAREHOUSE ArchVision has just released a new content subscription service called DETAIL WAREHOUSE. The DETAIL WAREHOUSE provides access to over 27,500 native Revit Drafting Views designed to kick-start or supplement your in-house Revit standards library. The collection is comprised of foundation, door, window and roof details representing 50 sub-categories of construction details. In addition, […]
BCS / RTC Post Event Review
Whew… ArchVision was busy in July. Wednesday before last marked the inaugural Building Content Summit (BCS). The BCS was the day before the Revit Technology Conference (RTC) which was held in Washington, DC. I acted as co-chair for the BCS along with Parley Burnett of InView Labs (makers of Unifi). What an event! The goal […]
Summer of Content
I’m pleased to announce that ArchVision is a Silver Sponsor of the 2015 Revit Technology Conference (RTC) in both North America and Europe where we’ll be showcasing some of our newest developments in late July (Washington, DC USA) and October (Budapest, Hungary). Not content (see what I did there) with resting on our laurels the team […]
Pro-Viz Texture Collections Now Available in ArchVision RPC Format
ArchVision (Lexington, Kentucky USA) and 3dRender (Sheffield, UK) are pleased to announce a new partnership. Effective immediately 3dRender’s Pro-Viz People collections now include RPC versions of the content. The Pro-Viz People collections make available 500 high quality people textures as PNG, JPEG and now RPC, perfect for enhancing architectural renderings. As RPC, users will experience […]
Why Architects Hate Entourage
Most arch visualization folks hate entourage. They hate seeing people in their renderings. They hate that they have to try to reproduce the world “around” their structures. They hate anything that breaks the realm of photorealism. They hate having to painstakingly place individual people in their scenes. They hate that the model of car they […]
The Power of Universal Tags
We’ve been hard at work on the ability to easily convert 2D textures into RPC and now have a new Dashboard-integrated RPC Creator tool in widespread use. Converting your PNG and TIFF cutouts into RPC is as easy as dragging and dropping those alpha-masked images onto the Drop Zone within the RPC Creator. Add a […]
Presentation Styles of Christopher Dutton [Ocean Designs]
This month we’re profiling the work of Christopher Dutton of Ocean Designs in San Diego, California. Christopher contacted us after he saw the new Presentation Styles section of our blog and offered to pass along some tips for creating better work in Revit. Following are some of Christopher’s Revit renderings as well as some tips, […]
Presentation Styles of Corbin Savopoulos [MVE & Partners]
This month we’re profiling the work of Corbin Savopoulos of MVE & Partners (Irvine, California). We came across Corbin’s work after seeing a post on the Autodesk Revit Forum regarding non-realistic effects with RPCs. Corbin was looking for ways to affect the geometry and take advantage of the various line/shading modes available in Revit. We shared some […]
Presentation Styles of Dan Nevin [Alisco Designs]
When we come across great work we like to celebrate and share it with all of you. Welcome to the new Presentation Styles section of our blog! We’re kicking things off with the great work of Dan Nevin who works with Alisco Designs in Australia (http://www.aliscodesigns.com.au/). (Dan Nevin | Alisco Designs | www.aliscodesigns.com.au) We asked Dan […]
Dashboard 2.1 Adds Viewport Mode and Channel Filters
A new version (2.1.5) of Dashboard has just released that includes a couple of significant features we think you’ll enjoy. You can download the latest installer at https://archvision.com/dashboard/download. Viewport Viewport for Dashboard is a new 3D viewing mode that lets you preview your RPCs in full 3D. For 2D motion RPCs (2.5D) it will […]