

You also have export options such as 360° panoramas. Export Options –Įnscape has one click functionality and updates your Enscape scene as you modify your project in SketchUp. Use the SketchUp section plane to show interesting cross sections of your work. In many cases, this works out of the box if your water is already specified as “water” in SketchUp. Features of Enscape include: Live Update –Īll modifications in SketchUp are automatically shown in Enscape – even during Virtual Reality! Material Keywords –Įnscape uses a material keyword system to add detail to the SketchUp materials. It’s fully dynamic and a lot of fun to use, but most importantly, it will give you a fantastic rendered model to show your clients. There is no need to carefully adjust your perspective before rendering, just start Enscape and fly to the spots you like. rbz file (currently from the Preview / Alpha page).Enscape, is an easy to use, real time rendering plugin for SketchUp. Here is how you can manually the install Enscape Plugin for Sketchup:ġ) Download the. Here is a video that summarises the updates in 1.9:Ĭheck out this video of the Sketchup plugin in action: Releases for Revit and Sketchup addins are available at: It is seriously impressive to set the time to night, and then boost the stars right up. you can modify the brightness of Sun, Moon and Stars.you can ‘move’ the clouds to really get your scene looking just right.you can set the frames per second on exported video.Essentially, Enscape is working to support every applicable material property from Revit, which is great. For some reason, Enscape started with maximum bloom and extremely warm colour temperature, but after tweaking that a bit it started to look really nice as usual:įurther, more support for Glass and Glazing materials has been added.

As with Revit, you can have the Sketchup window, Enscape window, and Enscape settings all open and ‘live’ at the same time. Which is why Enscape is releasing this Extension, I suppose!Īfter installing the Enscape extension for Sketchup (you can see some tips on how to do this at the end of the post), you will probably want to immediately start tweaking settings. Personally, I hope to see more designers moving into Revit for early concept design with massing or adaptive components or Dynamo, but in the meantime there are plenty of people out there building really nice models in Sketchup. Some architects immediately feel comfortable using Sketchup, where Revit has a bit of a steeper learning curve.

Sketchup is still a solid workhorse in a lot of firms, as it is almost too easy to use. I will cover both of these below…ġ) A quick look at the Enscape Sketchup Extension Enscape is continuing to develop new and amazing ways to quickly visualise and present your Revit model… and now, your Sketchup models too.
