How To Use Enscape Rhino

Part Three. Enscape

Chapter xix. Introduction to Enscape

Upon completing this session, students will be able to:

(CO 1) Understand what is Enscape
(CO 2) Control/navigate Enscape
(CO 3) Create views
(CO 4) Add model backgrounds
(CO 5) Add together Entourages
(CO six) Render images

Session Highlights

At the end of the session, students tin can create the graphics below.

It shows the session highlight presenting the final Enscape rendering and other outputs for post productions. This is the expected result at the end of this lecture.

Lecture Contents

(CO i) Empathize what Enscape is

Enscape is a commercial existent-fourth dimension rendering and virtual reality "plug-in" for Revit, Sketchup, Rhino, ArchiCAD, & Vectorworks.

It is mainly used in the AEC industry and is adult and maintained by Enscape GmbH, founded in 2013 and based in Karlsruhe, Federal republic of germany.

Enscape features. Information from: Enscape website

[FEATURE 1] Real-time walk-through
CAYAS Architects was able to save 75% of their time to produce 3D visualizations by using Enscape
[FEATURE two] Virtual Reality
"A key add together-in for Revit and Rhino workflow through to VR." Forster+Partners
"Now, with Enscape, our clients are amazed with what we show them. They are able to actually experience their projection before it is even built. Enscape helps us to do a better job." HMFH Architects
[FEATURE iii] Export functions
"Design is e'er an iterative process, merely Enscape has made it a dynamic one" Turner Fleischer
- Batch export
- 360-degree panorama
- Video exports
- Standalones – an EXE file
[Feature 4] Various visual settings
- Clouds and backgrounds
- Time of day change
- White model fashion
- Light analysis mode
- Volume fog effects
- Depth of Field selection
- Ortho views
- BIM information
[FEATURE five] Asset library – more than 1000 options

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Download and install Enscape

Required Software information tin can be found in this link.

System requirements information tin can exist found in this link

To check your graphic drivers (Windows)
- Open your "This PC" on your Desktop
- Mouse "correct-click" > Click "Properties" > Click "Device Manager" on the left side of the panel > Discover "Display adapters" and come across the graphic drivers

(CO 2) Command/navigate Enscape

Open up your project file and open up a perspective that you lot want to brand a rendered paradigm in Enscape. Start Enscape

[Stride 1] Click [Enscape] tab
[STEP 2] Select the view that you would similar to start on [Active Document] console
[STEP 3] Click [Kickoff] on [Control] console. Then information technology would be best if you lot waited a few seconds or minutes to launch the plug-in

In one case Enscape is open, familiarize yourself with the navigation command

Adjust settings In that location are 2 types of settings.

(CO iii) Create views

If you discover a view while you navigate the real-time view from Enscape, you tin create/ relieve a view

[STEP 1] Once you detect the view, stop to navigate
[STEP 2] Click "Create 3D view" from the tools panel
[STEP 3] Proper name the view
[Pace 4] You tin find the view that y'all merely created on the Revit Project browser
[Step 5] To go back your views that you created, click the view name on the [Active Document] panel

(CO 4) Add model backgrounds

There are 2 options to change the model background

[OPT i] Change your Atmosphere on the visual settings to change the model backgrounds
[OPT 2] Try to use Skybox. Notice free skyboxes from this link

(CO 5) Add Entourages

Add Enscape models from Asset Library

[STEP 1] Click Asset Library from the Tools panel
[Stride ii] Search items by category or tags
[Step 3] Open a floor programme that yous want to add the selected Enscape model to the Revit model
[STEP 4] Select the model and identify it on your flooring plan. Use Move, Rotate commands to place the Enscape model. Besides, confirm the positions on your perspective view.
[Step 5] Once the placement is done, press [ESC] to go back to the library

(CO 6) Render images

To brand the final render

[STEP 1] Click [Visual Settings] to set render size, file location, and file blazon.
[STEP 2] Click [Capture] in your visual settings
[Step 3] Select the [Resolution] of the final rendering – Typically Full HD for PPT presentation, Ultra HD for Print version presentation. If your render size is unique, please select Custom and set the pixel size.
[Footstep 4] Bank check [Evidence Safe Frame] to see the preview on your real-time view
[Stride 5] Check [Export Object-ID, Material-ID, and Depth Chanel], Adjust the depth for the Depth Chanel
[STEP 6] Set a return location to save your concluding render image file past clicking the Folder
[STEP 7] Select a file format, typically [JPG]
[STEP 8] Select the view name that yous want to generate a final render
[Step ix] Click [Render paradigm] from [Enscape] tab, under [Tools] panel, to get the final render paradigm outside of the file. Y'all may click "Return epitome (into the document)" to use the rendered image on your Revit document. This way, y'all can add your terminal render image to your sheet

Free resources

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References

Garubba, K., & Garubba, Southward. (n.d.). Enscape Features. Retrieved Oct 22, 2020, from https://enscape3d.com/features/

Kar, S. (2018, May 14). Top 9 Best Rendering Software for Architects This Year. Retrieved October 23, 2020, from https://www.architecturelab.net/best-rendering-software-for-architects/

Costless Enscape Student & Educational Licenses – Enscape™. (2020, June 05). Retrieved October 23, 2020, from https://enscape3d.com/educational-license/

System Requirements. (2020, September 14). Retrieved Oct 23, 2020, from https://enscape3d.com/community/blog/knowledgebase/system-requirements/

Free Sample Projects. (n.d.). Retrieved October 22, 2020, from https://enscape3d.com/complimentary-sample-projects/

Reinold, H. (n.d.). Complimentary Resources for Architectural Projects. Retrieved October 23, 2020, from https://blog.enscape3d.com/gratis-resources-for-architectural-projects