Revit: AR and VR Workflows

Discover how to incorporate VR and AR into your architecture, engineering, or construction workflow. Learn best practices for creating files with predictable VR outcomes.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know
• Using the exercise files

1. Why Model for VR in Revit?

• A business case for immersive visualization
• LOD and return on BIM investment
• Immersive tech: When to use
• Immersive tech: Which to use
• Extracting extra value from your investment

2. How to Use Your Revit Model with VR and AR

• Overview
• Single-user visualization in Enscape
• VR in Enscape
• Multiuser visualization using IrisVR Prospect
• Getting started with Argyle for architecture and construction augmented reality
• Setting up your Revit project for export to Argyle
• Argyle on-site setup and first-time alignment
• Model view and management in Argyle AR
• Construction quality assurance checklist using Argyle
• Game engines for custom AR/VR experiences, tools, simulations, and visualizations

3. Simple 3D Shortcuts for SD

• Simple 3D placeholders
• Creating a placeholder component family
• Editing a placeholder component family
• Labeling a component family
• Adding parametric detail to a component family
• Instance parameters for variability within a type
• Topography and context

4. Material Library and Editing

• What's in a Revit material?
• Revit appearance asset library and organization
• Creating a new Revit material
• Populating the materials strategically in the project

5. Higher LOD VR-Ready Modeling

• Next-level parametric families
• Using RPC for Enscape and renderings
• Lighting, IES profiles, and emissive materials
• Location data for VR sun analysis

6. VR Modeling for Revit

• Google Earth for site exploration
• Blocks
• Tilt Brush
• Import to Revit as a 3D underlay

7a. Multiuser Prototyping and Documentation for Revit in the Wild

• Getting started with the wild
• Prototyping in virtual reality
• Collaborative design review

Conclusion

• Next steps