Category: Visualisation

I’d read about this a while back and wanted to try it. You export a model from Revit to Unreal Engine’s free version of TwinMotion and render it a lot more realistically. I’d played with Unity and I really liked its 1st person shooter plugin for Revit, where you created a stand alone model that

I have a few RSS feeds that I follow, plus I go along to revit & BIM talks when they are in town. A couple of useful things have just come up that I want to tag as they are useful tools and I want to be able to refer back to them. Using Phase

I really enjoy the curated maps that Keir Clark presents on his Maps Mania website. I get them through my RSS feed and there are some pretty interesting ones. He had this article Sub Francisco about Andrei Kashcha’s City Roads rendering in brouser of a selected city roadways. After selecting your city of choice you

I’ve been doing some work for my daughter on her growing business. One of the things I was trying to work out was a flow process for the organisation, from seed o delivery and items needed along the way. I started to use Bubbl.us to look at some of the flows and organizational structures and

In the previous post I looked at using Unreal Engine to do some presentation information on a project from Revit 2015. I found it had a steep learning curve and from Export from Revit you had to go into an intermediate programme such as 3d Max or Blender before importing it onto Unreal Engine. Then

I read this AEC Magazine article Christmas comes early at Epic Games about free features for Unreal Engine (UE) and thought I’d give UE V4 a go. I’d previously played with Unity, and there is talk of a collaboration between Unity & AutoDesk for AEC industry, that means that the free Unity will suddenly need

Using 3D PDF's to manage your buildings through their lifecycle with the help of 2d & 3d comments, static and dynamic stamps for annotating and recording events, inspections and changes.

Using JavaScript with 3D PDF's can make usability of it far easier for people with limited 3D model skills making it far more accessible to many

I found a post that had an article about an Excel type spreadsheet that you have in your web page with the benefits listed below, so I thought I’d have a play with it. jExcel is a lightweight vanilla javascript plugin to create amazing web-based interactive tables and spreadsheets compatible with Excel or any other

I’m developing a series of 3D PDF’s for an As-Built phase of a commercial project. I wanted to split the set into Architectural model, structural, specific services and a general fire model (passive only so where fire rated walls are located). My initial workflow was messy and hard to replicate so I wanted to make