Best Practices

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 [...]

Adding models to your project is a great way to take it to the next level and really impress your clients; it can make all the difference during a presentation. But carefully considering the [...]

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. [...]

You may have seen my recent post about artificial light sources in SketchUp , in which I covered different techniques to realistically light your model. But there is another way of creating light [...]

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 [...]

Best Practices: Lighting in SketchUp   How do you elevate your model, and create an experience the viewer will never forget? Lighting is crucial to creating not only realistic scenes, but [...]

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 [...]

Best Practices: How to use executables for presentation Perhaps the most important part of an architect’s process is presenting a design to the client. This is what all your hard work is leading [...]

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 [...]

Best Practices for Revit Materials with Enscape; Stone and Masonry The fundamentals of creating a Revit material  are fairly straightforward; create a new material, assign a texture and render in [...]

Best Practices for using Revit Decals with Enscape Do you want to make your visualizations more realistic or meaningful to your client? You may have client specific images, wayfinding graphics or [...]

Best Practices for Custom RPC Content In a recent post , I discussed the free and subscription-based RPC content  from ArchVision as well as the Enscape replacement content. In this post, I am [...]

Best Practices for Revit´s Design Options Autodesk Revit has a feature called Design Options, which manages different designs in the same location. This feature can be used with Enscape – and [...]