May 23, 2013

Set sun and sky in camera view

Adjust sun and sky properties

Sometimes when you change view, your rendering result become black. What is wrong with the settings? Let’s see how you can save sun & sky setting, so this won’t happen again!

Project Falcon for AutoCAD is now available

Air Flow Simulation Analysis in AutoCAD with Project Falcon

Do you create conceptual design in AutoCAD? Now you can do airflow simulation within AutoCAD for your design with Project Falcon! Every changes you make will update the airflow simulation immediately! Great tool for architects and designer.

AutoCAD rendering with artificial lights

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Do you want to create photorealistic AutoCAD rendering with artificial lights? See how you can do it quickly and easily here!

AutoCAD tip: modeling a curtain

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Do you want to create a 3D curtain in AutoCAD quickly? Here are a quick steps you can follow!

AutoCAD rendering tip: Using cutouts map for removing materials

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Do you need to create repetitive holes/cutouts in your AutoCAD rendering? Do you actually remove parts of the solids? You may want to try using cutouts map. Simpler and faster!

Faking a Door With Material Texture

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Imagine this: you are an interior designer, and one day your client show you a brochure or a catalog. “I want my front door like this. Can you put it in your model and render it for me? And make the rendered model nice.” What do you think if your client want a door like [...]

Creating Your Own AutoCAD Rendering Materials

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We have discussed how we can apply AutoCAD rendering materials from available Autodesk library. The next problem is, what if what we want doesn’t exist in the library? We have to create our own! But don’t worry. It is not that difficult. It does need several trials and errors, and rendering it. The nice thing [...]

Using Autodesk Material Library in AutoCAD

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In this article, we are going to attach materials to our model. We are going to skip the artificial lighting and save it for later. However, we already have sunlight for now and it’s enough to create a photorealistic rendering. You probably now can’t wait to see how your model looks like when we render [...]