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Are you sick of waiting ages for a Revit walkthrough to render? Using this technique, you can cut your walkthrough rendering time in half! Essentially, we make half the frames we need in Revit, and th…
Awesome post from Klaus over at:Revit and Camera Match / FOV and Focal Length He provides a family file and a step-by-step process for how to match a Revit 3D perspective view with a real life camera …
Are your renders taking ages? Trying to output a big rendered walkthrough? No matter how fast your PC is, these things can take time. Why not enlist a few of the other computers in your office to help…
As Revit users, we spend about 99% of our time behind a computer screen. The brains of a computer are commonly known as a CPU (central processing unit). These days, most CPUs have multiple cores. The …
If you have lots of materials in a project, it can become a chore to actually ‘choose’ them in the Material dialog box. Here is a quicker way: Scroll down for step by step version… In the Element or T…
Revit 2011 (Mental Ray) utilises all available CPU cores that the OS can ‘see.’ When multitasking, your PC may slow to a crawl after a render begins. You can limit the amount of CPU time that the Rend…
Here is a brief how-to on creating a large, high resolution rendered Revit walkthrough (or sun study) and then subsequently compressing and uploading it to Youtube. Setup your walkthrough view. In Rev…
Here is a visualisation we recently completed in Revit 2010 64 bit. Dimond Architects Pty Ltd…
Update: check out this page for the 64-bit Xvid codec I encountered a problem today related to walkthrough creation in Revit 2010 64 bit with Vista 64 bit. I was exporting a large walkthrough to uncom…
We are currently working on a school auditorium project here at Dimond Architects. Interior rendering of the Auditorium is currently in progress. See current image below:…