Rendering views in Revit

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As they say in the movie industry, lights, camera, action.

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In Revit, shall I say views, materials, lights, action?

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We're ready to render, but I'm still not going to click the easy button for a render,

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because we need to look at the various settings within Revit that will make the rendering more effective.

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So, let's jump back into Revit.

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Here we are in Revit 2024.

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And as before, let's open up the small medical center.

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As before, if you didn't finish the previous lessons, you can click on small medical center rendering,

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and it opens up to our reflected seating plan where we finished off last time.

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If it doesn't open to that, in your project browser, go to your ceiling plan, second floor.

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I remember the sconce that I placed.

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It's actually right on a window. So, that's not going to work very well.

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So, simply select it and delete it.

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In our project browser. Let's go to our 3D views

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and double click on the SECOND FLOOR - BREAKROOM.

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Oh, Look at this. Some of our sconce up lights are actually pointing downward.

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Easy enough to change. So, I simply select it.

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And each time I hit the space bar, it rotates 90 degrees.

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Do that for all the sconces that are upside down.

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And now indeed there are sconce up lights.

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Okay. It's time to render.

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Notice down here. I have a little teapot with a light bulb so I can show my rendering dialog box.

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Or on my view tab I have my render here.

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Notice RR is the keyboard shortcut for displaying the rendering dialog box.

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For this initial run, I like to have my settings set to draft.

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And once I have the kinks worked out, I can increase the quality.

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For my resolution, let's set it to a printer resolution.

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For my lighting scheme, notice we do have a window and some lights.

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So, I go to my interior and artificial.

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And for my artificial lights,

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let's select that group for my SECOND FLOOR - BREAKROOM and uncheck the ungrounded lights.

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Notice when I select SECOND FLOOR - BREAKROOM, all the lights get highlighted in my view.

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So, I know I have the proper one set and click "OK".

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Let's do some small tweaking right now. Let's adjust the exposure a bit.

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Let's decrease that by, let's go to about 7.5.

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The rest we can adjust later.

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So, click "OK".

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And let's click the "Render" button.

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So, the rendering process it can take some time. It gives me a progress.

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If it's all in black, don't hit the stop button,

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be patient and let it keep going and eventually you will get a result that you can work with.

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Now, this isn't too bad.

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But for the image, let's adjust the exposure, make it a little bit darker, apply.

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My highlights, let's make them a little bit darker as well.

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Let's start from the shadows to about 1.1.

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And for the saturation and white point,

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I generally leave them the way they are because I want the electrical settings to dictate the saturation white point.

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If it's a halogen light versus if it's a fluorescent light.

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Okay. That's not bad for my draft. So, I click "OK".

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And now I can come to a high resolution.

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Increase my DPI to maybe 300 dots per inch and re-render this.

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Now this is going to take some more time.

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So, I'll see you in a few minutes.

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Oh, I forgot to mention last time, notice that there's some materials missed.

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So, I received this file from a consultant.

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They created some new materials and they forgot to send me the materials and the corresponding graphics.

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So, I should really go back to that consultant and request those.

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Okay. This is finally done.

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I can save this to a project, give it the proper name.

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I'll accept the default.

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This basically creates a drafting view and puts the image on that drafting view.

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So, as you can see, it creates under renderings, basically, a drafting view with the names that we think.

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I can also export this.

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So, I go to my project folder, I'll create a rendering folder,

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and I can save it as a variety of images.

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I'll leave the default as JPEG which is a more compressed file format.

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Okay. This took quite some time to render.

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The next lesson will look at an alternative to rendering on your own computer where we can render to the cloud.