Enscape, one of the leaders in real-time interactive visualization technology for the AEC industry, recently announced its 3.2 version update of its namesake application. This latest version includes features that will enable architects and designers to create remarkable real-time visualizations and streamline their entire workflows.
“Real-time visualization is more than just a beautiful rendering. It is now an essential and critical part of any design process, providing important data to make design decisions and communicate them to key stakeholders,” said Petr Mitev, VP, Visualization Product Group at Enscape.
Enscape version 3.2 supports Panorama Tours as a new feature capability.
“With each product update, we add new features and improve existing features and functionality to help more architects and designers quickly and easily visualize and communicate their designs in real-time. Enscape 3.2 is another step forward in truly integrating the design and visualization workflows into one.”
Enscape 3.2
Version 3.2 includes multiple new features, like Dynamic Asset Placement, Batch Panorama, Green Building Assets and New Materials and Props. Below is a description of each:
- Dynamic Asset Placement — With the new Dynamic Asset Placement, users can select, place, and edit assets from the Asset Libraries into their designs via the Enscape rendering window. Everything added to the rendering is instantly reflected in the modeling software, offering a two-way asset placement. Users can rotate, scale, and delete an asset, and all changes will sync back to the project. Exact editing functions and capabilities will depend on the modeling software used. Multi-asset placement is also now available to quickly populate scenes with assets such as trees, cars, and people, directly inside Enscape.
- Batch Panorama and Panorama Tours — With the new Batch Panorama, users can now render multiple panoramas, such as an image, mono panorama, or stereo panorama, at once. Panorama Tours are also available to guide clients and prospects better through proposed designs–third-party tools are no longer required.
- Update Existing Uploads — With the Uploads Update feature, users can update existing uploads shared by a link or QR code without the need to resend a new one each time a change is made, preventing fractured workflows and offering a much more efficient way of working.
- Green Building Assets and Materials — With the growing demand and need for sustainable architecture, users can now enjoy a new collection of over 150 green building assets, including a diverse range of trees, plants, and flowers often used within green building design. Wind turbines, electric power stations, two additional electric vehicles, drones, a scooter, and even a passenger drone, have also been added to this update. Users will also get access to roughly 25 green building materials such as organic bricks, a bamboo fence, recycled plastic, a straw wall, hay plastic, solar modules, printed concrete, clay plaster, solar roof tiles, wood materials, and rammed earth.
- New Materials and People Assets — Enscape 3.2alsoincludesaround 30 new highly requested materials such as wallpapers, tiles, marble, granite, leather, plaster, and rubber tar. Users can also add approximately 50 new people assets to their scenes.
- Ray-Traced Sun Shadows — Shadow sharpness and accuracy are further improved with this release by extending ray-traced sun shadows to videos and real-time walkthroughs (independent of whether rest mode is activated or not).
- Upload Management Overhaul — To bring the Upload Management feature in line with the rest of the product and provide users with a more intuitive workflow, the UI for this particular element of Enscape has been redesigned. Uploads will now be grouped by type and product, and function indicators have been improved.
“I like the fact that Enscape is always looking for ways to improve our design workflow,” said Joseph Kim, Project Manager, MJM Architects. “The new Dynamic Asset Placement functionality will save both time and effort as we can now place and modify the assets in a way that wasn’t so easy to do with the 3D modeling software.”
To learn more about Enscape 3.2 visit here and watch the video below.
Reader Comments
Might be helpful in your article to mention that Enscape is a Windows only application. Lord knows they bury that bit of information in their site and only with a lot of digging do you discover that if you want to use Enscape on your Mac, you have to run it thru Bootcamp.
Hello Christopher, thanks for making this important note. In the past we used to list platform support for every news item and we slowly moved away from that because we thought readers would jump to the company site and find that stuff out easily. But you are right, some companies make that kind of info hard to find.
We are planning future updates to Architosh and have a new way of making that kind of platform info apparent from even the beginning of a story.
On a side note, Enscape is planning to come to the Mac in H1 2022. And on M1 chip based Macs in particular. Thanks again for reading Architosh and if you want to get into our second round beta group for Architosh’s planned updates drop me a note anthony {at} architosh {dot} com
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