ROUND UP RealityScan iOS
V-Ray 6 for Revit connects with Enscape
RealityScan from Epic Games / Capturing Reality is now available to download for free on iOS. RealityScan is a 3D scanning app for mobile devices that uses cloud processing to turn smartphone photos into high-fidelity 3D models ■ www.capturingreality.com
Spaces expands Cerulean Labs, the developer of Spaces, the sketch-based conceptual design tool for the iPad, has announced its Series Seed investment round led by Shadow Ventures. The company has also established Cerulean Labs U.S. Inc. as its global headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia ■ www.spacesapp.io
Bird’s eye view Evercam 4D View is now powered by Bentley Systems’ iTwin, allowing construction professionals to ‘easily switch’ between a BIM model and live camera view of the construction site to help project teams better understand the construction sequence and communicate project plans ■ www.evercam.io
AEC investment Hensel Phelps has launched a new investment company that specialises in construction innovation and technology. ‘Diverge’ works directly with innovation partners and technology startups to source, evaluate, invest and deploy new construction innovations ■ www.diverge.vc
HVAC-Twin CCTech’s HVAC-Twin has joined Bentley Systems’ powered by iTwin program. The software allows engineers to add sensor data, make connections, and start visualising data such as temperature, occupancy, and CO2 levels—to diagnose and improve the performance of HVAC systems ■ www.cctech.co.in
Revit automation Ideate Automation, a scripting solution that runs BIM tasks in the background, now allows users to batch-export Revit sheets and/or views to DWG file format, export model health data from a Revit file and display it in Power BI, plus more ■ www.ideatesoftware.com
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-Ray 6 for Revit includes a new link to Enscape, making it easier for architects and viz specialists to collaborate on photorealistic visualisations at any part of their process — without losing design intent. What starts in Enscape can now be rendered and edited in V-Ray 6. With support for Enscape environments, materials and compatible 3D assets, what the visualisation team receives is a 1:1 version of what the architect designed. Even custom skies created in Enscape are automatically transferred. Since clouds can have a big impact on the look of an outdoor scene, V-Ray 6 introduces a new procedural cloud system, built on Enscape technology. Instead of spending hours browsing through HDRI libraries, or adding skies later in Photoshop, artists can now easily simulate a variety of cloud types and weather conditions — from partly cloudy
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to overcast. According to the developers, the new system is not only memory efficient, but a powerful way to create dynamic timelapse presentations and streaming streaks of sunlight. V-Ray 6 for Revit also includes a new V-RayDecal capability that can project textures onto multiple surfaces and materials, all while working as a native Revit family. Users can not only adjust its position, size and angles, but project displacement through it. A key application for this is to bring more realism to cracked walls, stains, road marks and more. Meanwhile, Chaos Cloud Collaboration is designed to make it easier to share work and collaborate with internal/external stakeholders. Users can share images and image panoramas straight from the V-Ray Frame Buffer and get feedback from reviewers, with a view to speeding up the approval process for everyone involved. ■ www.chaos.com/vray/revit
Symetri partners with One Click LCA ymetri, a provider of solutions for design, engineering, construction and manufacturing firms, has formed a new partnership with One Click LCA, a developer of construction Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) software. In addition to a global technology reseller agreement, the agreement includes a technology partnership which allows Symetri to use One Click LCA’s database
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as part of Symetri Technology. According to Mikko Viertola, CTO, the aim is to enable Symetri’s customers to make carbon-smart material selections for both buildings and building products. Building LCA is a science-based methodology for quantifying the lifetime environmental impacts of a building. One Click LCA has been designed to make the assessment easy by embedding the methodology into a tool. ■ www.symetri.co.uk
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