I hope you don't mind me throwing my two cents in. View Member Profile Send Email Find Member's Topics Find Member's Posts pmolson It's a commercial plugin though, if I recall correctly, it was built for Lumion. There is a collada exporter, which ought to preserve textures. I've been contemplating learning GDL to duplicate the functionality of some of my SU dynamic components. It's not that Archicad is a bad program, quite the opposite, it's just that its whole approach is based on creating integrated project documentation very efficiently, as opposed to realistic modelling. It's so much faster and more realistic than the Archicad approach. If I want a timber clad building say, I can use an SU dynamic component and get proper geometry, just by stretching and adjusting the parameters. It's probably quicker to delete them and replace them with proper instanced components, than to 'fix' the archicad ones.Īlso, for proper realism, you need flashings and copings and trims, all the things that aren't typically added in archicad.
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Unless you do this, your windows just look crap. If I have to reapply the glass and frame texture for each window, if they have a timber texture, it will take a long time to divide up the frame so that you can separately texture the horizontal and vertical members. What I found with components with v18 at least, is that they are not instanced, which means they are effectively groups, and you need to reapply textures to everything individually, which is very time consuming on large buildings. Generally I agree with your comments regarding imperfections in my impression, but the workflow is absolutely working for me. It definitely needs a lot more details, I realize that. The level of detail of the building is very basic indeed, but I am still in preliminary design phase. But SU Podium produces renders with such beautiful and delightful light and the library is so massive it is a very good choice for me. And sometimes I use Lumion, Twinmotion or LumenRT. Sometimes I use Cinerender from within Archicad, but it has a very limited library. I am an architect and I need a quick workflow to create impressions as a way to communicate with my clients, and Archicad is the base of everyhing I do. Making artist impressions is not my core business. And to remodel the building in SU would be a huge amount of extra work. The comments you have on my impression are not a result of an imperfect workflow, I think. But I exported just the building, everything elese is from within SU. I don't know what kind of huge problems with components occur when exporting from Archicad to SU, it works great for me. View Member Profile Send Email Find Member's Topics Find Member's Posts architectspaltman Personally I would not be happy with sending this to a client, and if one of my team produced a render like this, I would make them spend a lot more time to get it to what I think would be a better standard. It depends what you want from your renders. I would probably prefer to remodel a lot of the details in SU. I feel uncomfortable posting comments which are not going to be positive given your compromised workflow and starting point, so you can make of them what you want. Reapplying materials is not a great workflow, and the lack of support for components is pretty much a deal-breaker for me. I don't think that importing from Archicad to SU is good enough. You can do it, but it takes a long time, and it's much more complex than SU. Archicad is great for BIM, but not great for visualisation. As someone who is in the process of migrating to archicad from SketchUp, I don't think it's going to be satisfactory for a long time. This illustrates the problem with BIM generally, it's not good enough for realistic visualisation unless you spend a lot of time with the model. I would prefer to have Podium in Archicad. Hmm - I've tried Archicad (we have it in the office) to Sketchup, and there is a huge problem with components, it's no fun. View Member Profile Find Member's Topics Find Member's Posts bigstick
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