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Customers these days are accustomed to seeing final designs at early stages. 3D visualization provides the ability to show interior and exterior designs, layout, lighting, texture, and even geography, prior to development.

3D visualization software brings your visions to reality

Visually communicate your clients’ proposed designs and beautifully tell their stories with realistic elements and details. The future of architectural design and 3D architectural visualization allows for projects to be designed, revised, and refined in real-time prior to building.

 

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V-Ray for Revit, 3ds Max, Rhino, and Sketchup

V-Ray connects seamlessly with the top 3D modeling and design applications including 3ds Max, Revit, Rhino, SketchUp, and Unreal. Watch our four-part webcast with the V-Ray experts from Chaos Group.

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Optimizing Rhino Workflow to Revit, AutoCAD, V-Ray & 3D Printing

Watch as Microsol Resources and McNeel Rhino experts explore the Rhino workflow from early design and model exploration to further refinement and documentation using Revit.

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Augmented, Virtual & Mixed Reality

Read this article to get an introduction to these technologies and find out how it is reshaping the world of design.

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3D Visualization Software

Check out these software that bring architectural visualizations to life – with everything from interior walkthroughs to exterior environments. Bring your designs to life.

The AEC Collection includes:

  • Revit for building information modeling (BIM)
  • AutoCAD for 2D
  • 3D CAD
  • Civil 3D for infrastructure
  • InfraWorks for geospatial
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  • Chaos Corona is a rendering service specifically for architectural visualization.
  • Achieve photorealism with greater ease.
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  • Autodesk Arnold, an advanced Monte Carlo ray tracing renderer, built to stand up to the demands of VFX and animation production.
  • A powerful, easy-to-use rendering experience that delivers beautiful and predictable results.
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  • Autodesk 3ds Max helps deliver improved productivity.
  • Users can work more efficiently and creatively with modeling, animation, rendering and workflow updates.
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  • Autodesk Maya is 3D visual effects software with powerful character creation, rigging, animation, and simulation tools.
  • Create expansive worlds, complex characters, and dazzling effects with Maya.
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  • Use ReCap™ Pro 3D scanning software to transform the physical world into a digital asset.
  • With reality capture data you can better understand and verify existing and as-built conditions to gain insights and make better decisions.
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  • Chaos Cloud is a push-button cloud rendering service for artists and designers.
  • It is designed for single-click job submissions directly from V-Ray.
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  • Enterprise is the most cost-effective option for studios and firms that need 5 or more licenses of V-Ray.
  • Customers get all of the benefits of the Premium tier but are priced at a discount for multiple seats. 
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  • With the V-Ray Premium tier, you can install V-Ray on any machine and use it with any supported host application.
  • It can be used to access all V-Ray integrations, including 3ds Max, Revit, Rhino, SketchUp, Cinema 4D, Houdini, Maya, Nuke,  and Unreal.
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  • V-Ray Solo is a node-locked V-Ray license that can be used to set up and render on a single machine using any supported host integration.
  • Everything you need to visualize your ideas from start to finish.
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  • Enscape is an easy-to-use real-time rendering & virtual reality plugin for Autodesk Revit, SketchUp, Rhino, ArchiCAD, and Vectorworks.
  • It offers architects a time-saving opportunity to create the perfect 3D visualization of architectural projects without extra effort.
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  • Rhino is the most powerful NURBS 3D CAD Industrial Design and modeling tool, now including Rhino.Inside.Revit.
  • This new McNeel Rhinoceros 8 can create, edit, analyze, document, render animate, translate NURBS (Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines), curves, surfaces, solids, point clouds, and polygon meshes.
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Visualization TRAINING

Microsol Resources offers training and support as you learn the software. Our software applications training gets you up to speed with premier programs, such as Rhino, Revit, and 3ds Max.

We are offering a variety of training options from in-person to live online training, and on-demand training to give you the flexibility you need for your ongoing professional development.

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Visualization SERVICES

Our consulting services allow you to understand which of the diverse technologies and workflows are best suited to provide you with the knowledge, proficiency, and resources to traverse any technical challenge.

How can we help? From setting standards development to staff training ⁠— we can leverage the industry’s best practices to assist you for a smooth start, optimal performance, and profitable finish to all your projects.

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Architectural Visualization Report

Autodesk 3ds Max enables architects, designers, and visualization specialists to fully explore, validate and communicate their creative ideas, from concept models to cinema-quality visualizations. A comprehensive 3D modeling, animation, and rendering solution, 3ds Max delivers powerful lighting simulation and analysis technology, advanced rendering capabilities, and a faster, more integrated workflow.

Check out this eBook on how 3ds Max offers a rich and flexible toolset to model premium architectural designs, allowing full artistic control to translate technical drawings into visual stories.

 

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