Most impressively, it maintained a live link, so any edits made in Revit, be that moving objects or changing materials, automatically updated in Enscape moments later.Īt a time when other real-time viz applications were still grappling with file-based transfer, this was truly ground-breaking. 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. They're not always the most optimized models, but from the tests I've done, the performance is still quite good even on hi-poly models, see attached.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.

Luckily there are already a lot of 3d Sketchup plant models out there that are pretty decent, and using those seems to work quite well now in Enscape. Revit uses ArchVision content I believe - would the same work with Sketchup assuming we have an ArchVision license?

The problem is Sketchup doesn't have a standard library of trees the way Revit does.

It would be nice if there were a way to access all the same trees and plants that come with Revit (and show up in 3d within Enscape replaced by your models).

Thanks Thomas, regular billboard support is definitely handy, but primarily just for still images I'd imagine. The current SketchUp alpha already supports billboards and we will probably add Scatter support in a future version.Ī vegetation library is not yet planned but we're opened to support other kind of proxy solutions (like Scatter).

Enscape 3d for sketchup