Revit Rendering as part of Construction documents

[rudolfweyers346383]

Is anybody using Renderings as part of their Construction Documents, as a added feature to show the design ideas better?

[Alfredo Medina]

In the architectural offices where I have worked, there was always a big rendering (exterior perspective) of the building on the first sheet of the construction documents set; that was the standard layout for our cover sheets. Is that what you are referring to?, or some other type of rendering to illustrate something else?

[josh.made4worship]

Like Alfredo said, I have seen this as well. However, related to your question as well, I have also seen people using hidden line, and shaded 3D sections or other views to better illustrate a part of the building to the contractor. I have even seen text notes etc. on these views. I think this will become more common place in the near future as firms start realize that there is more value in BIM than just producing a faster 2D set of documents. We need to harness the power of our BIM model and let the contractor see some of that so he can more quickly understand the building.

[twiceroadsfool]

I put perspectives on everyone of my Elevation sheets, when im on a project. Whether or not they are shaded/realistic/rendered is more a repro issue, than anything else. I tend to lean towards hidden line, just because inevitably itll get photocopied in to looking like garbage.

But yeah, i use them whenever im on a job.

[jeffh]

My office used to use annotated photos sometimes. We had one particular gate detail we liked to use that would always get done wrong (I know it is a gate...what could go wrong? but I digress) We finally had a project where it was done exactly right. We took multiple photos and then used those photos with annotation in our CD sets. We had far fewer problems with that gate detail after that.

So I could see how rednerings could be used in different circumstances.

[bryanl]

We have started using 3D details in our CD sets and we have also been placing interior 3D views of rooms we have interior elevations of. At the end of our drawing sets we include an axons of the exterior of the building.

[greg.mcdowell]

Those are nice looking details.

My only wish is to be able to keynote in 3D. Until that happens I, sadly, can't support it at our office.

[rudolfweyers346383]

Here is what I was thinking of. Will it be helpful for the contractor or not?

[Elmo]

Interesting way of utilizing a rendering Rudolf. Personally haven't seen any architect using renderings for that kind of view, they focused on a standard hidden line or shaded view.

[rudolfweyers346383]

My thoughts was to have a image as near as possible to reality for the builder to have a more than clear understanding of what is required. This will mainly be used on the Finishes Layout Drawings.