Revizto 2.0: The Club Revit Review

It fascinating to me how things can organically connect throughout my blog.  For example, my tutorial about adding depth to elevations flowed beautifully into my announcement of BIM After Dark (without me even know about what BIM After Dark would be when creating it).  Additionally, my "Revizto for Revit: The Complete Guide" post galvanized the interest you, my readers, had in real-time visualization.... leading to the creation of a bonus eBook within the BIM After Dark series.

Well, in another ubiquitous connection, after reviewing BIM After Dark, Michael Anonuevo published an excellent Review of Revizto 2.0!  

Stadia 3D - Interactive Rendering with Revit

Robert Pogue, of Stadia 3D, reached out to me in an effort to get the word out about his technology.  I have to say... It is COOL.  It is very simple.  You download the addin and install it.  Open your Revit project and go to a 3D view.  Type in your registered email address and click the "bake with Stadia" icon. Within an hour or so you receive an email informing you that your rendering is done.  Download the .exe... Run it, and VIO LA!  Your model is FULLY rendered (artificial lighting and all) and you can interact with it just like you would a video game...


House Section from Robert Pogue on Vimeo.


Think of the possibilities.  Being able to render your entire building in the cloud and then interact with it... Select your favorite views and take screen shots or record your interaction as a walk through.  Awesome.  I fooled around with it quite a bit before posting about Stadia 3D here on the blog:

Screen shot of Stadia3D with Photoshop for Exposure.

Rendering Directly in Revit with Photoshop Post-Processing.

Click here and give it a try!  I promise you will be very excited and impressed (especially if you have a nice graphics card).  

A little tip, press ALT when launching the .EXE file and you can make the rendering values higher or lower.

Revit Tutorial - Creating and Rendering Walkthroughs

Taking a quick break away from the Family Creation Series here is a nice little tip. There might be some information out there on this already but given the nature and collection of tutorials on this site I figured I would add it here.

Topics Covered:

• Creating a walkthrough.
• Editing a walkthrough.
• Previewing a walkthrough.
• Exporting a walkthrough.
• Rendering a walkthrough.

Click here to see the video on creating and rendering walkthroughs.

Tutorial - Walkthrough (Up Stairs)

This topic was brought up over in RevitSociety's forum by Elton. The question revolved around walkthroughs and going up or down stairs. It reminded me of a video I saw way back when on CAD Clips.. here is the video: