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More and more clients are coming to expect high quality graphics to represent their multi-million-dollar projects. Luckily the team at Enscape is hard at work, making this task unbelievably easy. [...]

Using high quality Entourage and other miscellaneous 3D clutter in an Autodesk Revit project can really bring a scene to life. This brief article will feature and highlight some of the new [...]

One of the great things about Enscape is its consistency across the primary design platforms it supports; Rhino, Revit, SketchUp and ArchiCAD. With the recent release the of the Ensacpe 2.5, [...]

In the recent past, we had to export our projects to a secondary software, which often required a separate effort to apply materials and entourage. Times have changed and designers no longer need [...]

An important part of any building is the mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) systems. It can often be difficult to fully convey to clients the complexity and the design intent of these [...]

As the year comes to a close, let’s look ahead and speculate which technology trends will shape the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry in 2019.

This post will discuss ways to give your project a reality boost using Enscape. Many people are already taking advantage of these ideas, albeit separately perhaps.

Buildings are getting more complex as we continue to implement new materials, methods and technologies. Of course, this means our construction documentation and BIMs are getting more complex as [...]

Wood is an amazing and versatile natural material we all love, in its natural setting, as carved figures and furniture or as finishes within buildings. This material has many characteristics such [...]

Representing grass has always been a challenge in architectural graphics, especially for the average designer who does not specialize in developing computer generated graphics (CGI). The best we [...]

Finding the right perspective is an art, not a science, and we can all get better at it by understanding a few basic principles.

Glass is an amazing material which provides a barrier from the elements while allowing a visual connection to the beauty around us; it provides light and even desired warmth in the cold season. [...]

As I am the author of the only Revit textbook focused on Interior Design, Interior Design Using Autodesk Revit 2019 , one could say the topic is near and dear to my heart! In this article I would [...]

A rendering technique nearly perfected in the gaming world is the understanding and application of Albedo to their materials. The result is a consistent, more realistic effect throughout all your [...]

When navigating a model in real-time is not practical, or you want a pre-scripted path that aligns with your talking points, then creating a video is the solution. For example, I recently worked [...]

Best Practices for Water in Architectural Design Architectural visualization can often incorporate water, whether as an integral feature like a swimming pool, or as an indirect detail, such as an [...]

When using Autodesk Revit, it is very easy to open a 3D view and then start Enscape to begin exploring your project in a photorealistic real-time environment. This post will mention a few things [...]

Best Practices for Lighting and Exposure When a Revit model has materials  set up correctly and properly placed lighting fixtures, it will look great in Enscape without changing any of the [...]

Export Options in Enscape When you stop and consider them all at once, it’s surprising how many options Enscape offers to export high-quality visualization content. In this Weeks post, we will [...]

SketchUp Material Editor – Enhanced Materials in SketchUp   I previously wrote a post on using Enscape with SketchUp which covered light sources. This post will cover the monumental [...]