ArchVision Dashboard 2.0 [beta] Pre-release

During the past month, ArchVision customers tested the new features and functionality of ArchVision Dashboard 2.0 [beta]. In addition to a re-styled user interface, several features have been enhanced and added. For example, the Drag & Drop feature now includes support for Revit as well as AutoCAD and 3ds Max. Placing an RPC has never been so simple.

Key features include:

* Manage and view your local RPC Content, including custom RPC Content
* Drag & Drop RPC Content from Dashboard into Autodesk Revit, 3ds Max, 3ds Max Design & AutoCAD
* Activate and Manage ArchVision Software Licenses
* Search Content by Channel: Trees, People, Automobiles, Objects and more.
* Indicators for local RPC Content and remote/global RPC Content
* RPC Plug-in and Software update notifications and downloads

Here’s a quick overview that Jon Anderson, customer support manager shared:


Existing users should expect to see ArchVision Dashboard available as an update in the coming weeks. If you are interested in beta testing ArchVision Dashboard 2.0, please let us know. Future releases will feature support for RPC Content Creation and cloud rendering.

Project Alpha: Green Building Doha, Qatar Leverages RPC Content in Animation

Project Alpha is an approximated 160,000 square meter development surrounded by 11 hectares of landscaping. It is comprised of a resort hotel, multi-residential condos, business center, commercial shops, museum, university, and exposition centers. Project Alpha promises to be one of the most advanced high rise development of its kind in the world.

Submitted into a global competition for consideration by the Kingdom of Qatar, Project Alpha was selected as a to-be-built project in Doha, Qatar. CIVE, XV Studio (Xavier Vilalta i Sabartés) and fco3d collaborated on this project.

ArchVision RPC Content user, Francisco J Penaloza, fco3d , produced the models, renderings and video animation. Francisco shared the video submission with us recently to discuss his use of RPC Content within the presentation. Thanks for sharing this project with us Francisco!

Kroger Co. rendering includes RPC Content to communicate re-design.

With over $90 Billion in sales and nearly 2500 supermarkets throughout the USA, The Kroger Company, is one of the largest grocer retailers in the country. Like countless other retailers with brick and mortar locations, the need to expand, re-design and re-brand is ongoing. The process often entails community meetings, developer meetings, zoning commissions and the like. Providing stakeholders renderings of buildings is standard fare in the design process. Renderings provide a visual representation of a proposed design and they can offer context to neighborhood, traffic patterns, building orientation, new walking paths, parking facilities and more.

The Kroger on Euclid Ave in Lexington, KY, is a great example how to leverage RPC Content (People and Cars) in a scene to provide context. This particular facility is going from 38,000 square feet to 65,000 square feet.

Kroger rendering, Euclid Ave, Lexington, KY.  Image courtesy The Kroger Co.

Kroger rendering, Euclid Ave, Lexington, KY. Image courtesy The Kroger Co.

ArchVision RPC Content: January Tree Additions

January_12_2012_thumbnail_new_templateThe ArchVision team has entered the new year with great excitement about new tools and content headed your way. In the coming months, we will be giving you a sneak peak at some of projects we are working on. January also brings with it brand new hi-res trees. Check out the January hi-res trees additions deciduous tree [20], deciduous tree [22], deciduous tree [27] and small Japanese Maple [3] just added to the content exchange.

These beautiful hi-res trees are ready for download via the ArchVision Dashboard.

ArchVision Software License plan customers have access to these and thousands more.

Check out all of the latest RPC Content added to the RPC Content exchange by clicking recently added from ArchVision Dashboard.

Download the ArchVision Dashboard to try these now.

ArchVision RPC Content: December Plants Additions (2)

December_19_2012_thumbnail_new_templateThe holidays are quickly approaching here at ArchVision and greens and reds are everywhere. One more place you’ll find green and red is in the new ArchVision RPC content addition December Plants Additions (2). This collection includes vivacious green flowering shrub [9], outdoor plant [6] a small red-leafed plant and outdoor plant [8], a hearty green plant.

These beautiful hi-res flowering plants and shrubs are ready for download via the ArchVision Dashboard.

ArchVision Software License plan customers have access to these and thousands more.

Check out all of the latest RPC Content added to the RPC Content exchange by clicking recently added from ArchVision Dashboard.

Download the ArchVision Dashboard to try these now.

ArchVision RPC Content: November Trees Additions

ArchVision proudly introduces four new hi-res RPC tree additions. This collection includes ginkgo [5], a small but hardy tree, deciduous tree [16], a dense narrow tree, deciduous tree [10], a nice round-topped tree and deciduous tree [17] with wide reaching branches. These trees are ready for download via the ArchVision Dashboard.

ArchVision Software License plan customers have access to these and thousands more.

Check out all of the latest RPC Content added to the RPC Content exchange by clicking recently added from ArchVision Dashboard.

Download the ArchVision Dashboard to try these now.

ArchVision RPC Content: October Plants Additions

Introducing three new hi-res ArchVision RPC plant additions. This collection includes the yellow outdoor plant [9], red flowering shrub [7], and tiny yellow-budded flowering shrub [5]. All of these are ready to download via the ArchVision Dashboard and begin using in your scene.

ArchVision Software License plan customers have access to these and thousands more.

Check out all of the latest RPC Content added to the RPC Content exchange by clicking recently added from ArchVision Dashboard.

Download the ArchVision Dashboard to try these now.

ArchVision Software License Overview

ArchVision currently offers two annual licenses that give users access to all RPCs and plug-ins for 3ds Max, AutoCAD and Photoshop. The ArchVision Software License Floating (sold for $499/year) is portable and can be hosted on a network server to be shared among multiple users (one user concurrently). We also offer the ArchVision Software License Node-Lock version ($249/year) that enables RPC usage on a single computer. I have created a new video to show an overview of purchasing and activating either of these license types.

ArchVision RPC Content: October Trees Additions

ArchVision welcomes the arrival of Fall with the release four new hi-res deciduous trees. This collection includes deciduous tree [19], a tall bushy green deciduous tree, and it’s crimson counterparts deciduous tree [23], deciduous tree [24] and deciduous tree [25]. Each of these hi-res trees will add some vibrant color to your next rendering project.

ArchVision Software License plan customers have access to these and thousands more.

Check out all of the latest RPC Content added to the RPC Content exchange by clicking recently added from ArchVision Dashboard.

Download the ArchVision Dashboard and access these now.

Revit 2013 to 3ds Max 2013 Interoperability for RPC Content Update

FBX

Autodesk 3ds Max 2013 released a patch to enable Revit 2013 to 3ds Max 2013 RPC Content support. The patch does require the user to install some updates. To enable interoperability, please follow the following steps:

1) Download the FBX Plug-in Update.
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/item?siteID=123112&id=10775855

2) Download the 3ds Max 2013 product update.
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/index?siteID=123112&id=2334435&linkID=9241178

Once both updates have been applied, simply Export from Revit as an FBX file and then Import into 3ds Max and all RPCs included should be present and render correctly.

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