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| Written by John | |||
| Thursday, 18 June 2009 07:26 | |||
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So, about 18 months ago I was talking with someone from autodesk and I said "who cares about Mental Ray rendering in Navisworks? That's not what the tool is used for" Although that's still the truth (I'm not really sure what's the construction usage here), I was pleasantly suprised by how the rendering turned out. The story behind it: Someone rather senior on my project's the design team gave me a jingle and asked "John, do you have a way to create a video that shows all of the 3D elements we have in the design?" I thought about it and said "sure, give me until the end of the week -- I'll shoot you an AVI about two minutes long" ...well, around 10 AM on Friday, I finally found a second to think about a rendered animation in Navisworks or Revit. After quickly weighing the pros and cons: Revit Pros: Mental Ray Rendering Engine Revit Cons: Loading the composite model takes 7.99 GB of an available 8GB
Navisworks Pros: Wicked light weight Navisworks Cons: Wicked light weight rendering engine (or so I thought)
Well, I outlined the basic idea, then I had the project's (somewhat overgrown) VCI (virtual construction intern) Scott Gurley take care of the heavy lifting. for a navisworks rendering that took 2 hours to put together (and 66 hours for all the frames to render!) it's not half bad!
If people are interested in the steps on how we put it together, I might be cajoled into posting up the step-by-step narrative... Scott takes payment in form of Dr. Pepper, Mountain Dew for me.
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| Last Updated on Thursday, 18 June 2009 07:50 |
Keep up the good work and please keep me posted.
diesellam@gmail.com