The concept of bi-directional associativity between components, views, and annotations was a distinguishing feature of Revit for many releases. For example, moving a wall updated neighboring walls, floors, and roofs, corrected the placement and values of dimensions and notes, adjusted the floor areas reported in schedules, redrew section views, etc.-so that the model remained connected and all documentation was coordinated. Two key differences in Revit were that users created parametric components in a graphical "family editor" rather than a programming language, and the model captured all relationships between components, views, and annotations so that a change to any element automatically propagated to keep the model consistent.
At the time, several other software packages-such as ArchiCAD and Reflex-provided a three-dimensional virtual building model, and let the user control individual components via parameters (parametric components).
With their Revit platform, Autodesk is a significant player in the BIM market together with Bentley Systems and the Nemetschek group (owner of Graphisoft's BIM application ArchiCAD, plus solutions including Allplan and Vectorworks), among others.įrom the outset, Revit was intended to allow architects and other building professionals to design and document a building by creating a parametric three-dimensional model that included both the geometry and non-geometric design and construction information, which is also known as building information modeling or BIM (1975 Eastman C.). The purchase allowed more research, development and improvement of the software. Autodesk, best known for its AutoCAD line of products, purchased Revit Technology Corporation for US$133 million in 2002. The company was renamed Revit Technology Corporation in January 2000. In 1999 they hired Dave Lemont as CEO and recruited board members Jon Hirschtick, founder of SolidWorks, and Arol Wolford, founder of CMD Group.
With funding from venture capitalists Atlas Venture and North Bridge Venture Partners, Raiz and Jungreis hired several software developers and architects and began developing Revit in C++ on the Microsoft Windows platform. rbz file (currently from the Preview / Alpha page).Charles River Software was founded in Newton, Massachusetts, on October 31, 1997, by Leonid Raiz and Irwin Jungreis, key developers of PTC's Pro/Engineer software for mechanical design, with the intent of bringing the power of parametric modeling to the building industry (PTC had previously tried and failed to market its recently acquired Reflex software to the construction sector).
Here is how you can manually the install Enscape Plugin for Sketchup:ġ) Download the. Here is a video that summarises the updates in 1.9:Ĭheck out this video of the Sketchup plugin in action: Releases for Revit and Sketchup addins are available at: It is seriously impressive to set the time to night, and then boost the stars right up. you can modify the brightness of Sun, Moon and Stars.you can ‘move’ the clouds to really get your scene looking just right.you can set the frames per second on exported video.Essentially, Enscape is working to support every applicable material property from Revit, which is great. For some reason, Enscape started with maximum bloom and extremely warm colour temperature, but after tweaking that a bit it started to look really nice as usual:įurther, more support for Glass and Glazing materials has been added. As with Revit, you can have the Sketchup window, Enscape window, and Enscape settings all open and ‘live’ at the same time.
Which is why Enscape is releasing this Extension, I suppose!Īfter installing the Enscape extension for Sketchup (you can see some tips on how to do this at the end of the post), you will probably want to immediately start tweaking settings. Personally, I hope to see more designers moving into Revit for early concept design with massing or adaptive components or Dynamo, but in the meantime there are plenty of people out there building really nice models in Sketchup. Some architects immediately feel comfortable using Sketchup, where Revit has a bit of a steeper learning curve. Sketchup is still a solid workhorse in a lot of firms, as it is almost too easy to use.
I will cover both of these below…ġ) A quick look at the Enscape Sketchup Extension Enscape is continuing to develop new and amazing ways to quickly visualise and present your Revit model… and now, your Sketchup models too.