CAD Notes

Do you confused when you need to set up your rendering materials? How much you should set the opacity value, shininess, and the other values? Don’t be. AutoCAD (and other rendering software) has a template that define standard materials. All you need to do is select the material type and template. In this example, I use Realistic type, and Ceramic Tile, Glazed as template. After I chose the template, all of my material … Read entire article »

Rendering with AutoCAD? Why not. AutoCAD can produce very nice rendering since AutoCAD 2007. Autodesk change the render engine with mental ray. It’s not exactly the same with mental ray in 3ds Max, but it is good enough. Every image in this post is created with Revit, and rendered with AutoCAD. Isn’t Revit also has mental ray rendering? Yes, and it’s good too. I created this model in Revit 2008, when Revit still use Accurender. … Read entire article »

Remember the old days, when we can add landscape objects like trees, cars, and people in our AutoCAD model? Since Autodesk decided to change the rendering engine from scanlines to mentalray, this feature is no longer available. But in the release comparison matrix, there is ‘entourage’ available. So where is it? It’s a separate installation. Yes, Since AutoCAD 2008, it support entourage. But you have to install a plug-in first. As far as I … Read entire article »