Revit: Rendering

Learn how to generate high-quality output directly from Revit, and create photorealistic renders for presentations and visualizations.

Introduction

• Presentation quality visualization from Revit
• What you should know

1. Creating 3D Views

• Overall rendering procedure
• Creating 3D views
• Working with axonometric view settings
• Understanding camera settings
• Navigating with the 3D steering wheel and ViewCube
• Creating cutaway 3D views

2. Modeling

• Understanding approaches to modeling
• Working with wall layers
• Applying sweeps to wall types
• Using the Wall Sweep tool
• Adding gutters and fascia
• Constructing wall profiles
• Working with slanted walls
• Understanding site and entourage components
• Using imported geometry
• Building custom components

3. Materials

• Introducing materials
• Physically based rendering (PBR) materials
• Creating a new material
• Duplicate an existing material
• Aligning textures to geometry
• Editing a material texture
• Creating seamless material textures
• Creating a material from custom image files
• Aligning wood textures
• Overriding material assignments with paint
• Creating a material library

4. Sunlight

• Setting your location
• Understanding sun settings
• Working with the sun path

5. Artificial Lighting

• Inserting artificial lights
• Inserting cove lights
• Understanding light fixture families
• Working with lighting groups

6. Rendering

• Understanding the rendering process
• Defining quality settings
• Performing test renders
• Configuring the resolution
• Choosing a lighting scheme
• Applying background settings
• Adding a background using Photoshop
• Adjusting the exposure controls
• Saving rendered output
• Issue with high-resolution renderings

7. Cloud Rendering

• Understanding cloud rendering
• Preparing a cloud render
• Cloud render types
• Panoramic rendering

8. Walkthroughs

• Creating a walkthrough
• Editing walkthrough camera direction
• Editing a walkthrough path
• Fine-tuning walkthrough frames
• Preparing for output
• Outputting a walkthrough

9. Experimenting with Additional Render Types

• Rendering a plan
• Hidden line presentation views
• Shaded presentation views
• New realistic shading
• Exporting some example projects
• Exporting a solar study

Conclusion

• Next steps