You can design, document, and visualize simultaneously from one model. It plugs directly into your modeling software, giving you an integrated design and visualization workflow across all project phases.Įnscape allows you to work intuitively with accessible rendering that requires no prior specialized knowledge to use. Our project turned out much better because of Enscape.Enscape™ is a real-time rendering and virtual reality plugin for Autodesk® Revit® (also for Rhino, SketchUp, Archicad, and Vectorworks). This gave us an advantage of spending more time designing and exploring. As a result, we were fortunate enough to entirely bypass the process of “click and wait” to render in Revit. My competition partner was also much more happy to use Enscape rather than having to learn another rendering tool.

There really wasn't any learning curve since you're actually doing everything in Revit and simply exploring in Enscape.

My dad had forwarded me a link to an article he thought I would find interesting. I only learned about Enscape at the start of last semester. It was a strange kind of hybrid digital process that often impeded my design development. Then my professor and I could sit down and draw overtop those images, 'redlining' any necessary design modifications. So I’d export from Revit and put trace paper over the images. At that point, professors pretty much wanted images to be printed out rather than displayed on screen. Rather than make the design process easier, Revit simply gives you more time to improve your design earlier. The second year of architectural school I was using Revit on a regular basis. My final visit was checking out the design programs there and architecture just seemed like the perfect fit. I didn't have as much of a passion for engineering but I had a knack for math and knew it would be better pay.

My initial visits to Iowa State were spent checking out the engineering program. When it was time for college my dad really wanted to make sure I was aware of the facts of architecture school and the profession: long hours, late nights and other economic realities. Becoming a finalist in the competition was a big confidence booster for me. And of course I had the advantage of being able to ask my dad technical questions! I ended up using Revit to enter an affordable housing competition during my senior year and the final project turned out really well.

It didn't get interesting until we started learning how to use AutoCAD and Revit. We started out using Chief Architect, which in my opinion was a total waste of time. When I was a senior in high school I decided to take some design classes.

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