Maxwell for Revit Poll by Next Limit

[hand471037]

Agreed. I know that the Alias|Wavefront Industrial Design tools based on Maya & Mental Ray make some pretty impressive looking images. However they better concerning how much they cost .

One thing that I'm wondering, and if those playing with Maxwell can chime in here, is if there was a way to go straight from Revit->Maxwell if that could get around some of the model size issues when rendering. What I'm talking about is the fact that Revit can handle it's own models pretty well, but when you export those models to DXF they become monsters with *way* too many faces and data for other 3D programs like VIZ/MAX (or at least that you would typically use within those programs, and Radisoity and Mental Ray both have limits on how big of a model you can really produce efficiently via Global Illumination). I know with at least with Radiance that model size isn't as big of an issue, and you can have pretty much almost any size/complexity of model that you want and still get an image out of it efficiently. Seeing that Maxwell is also a physical-based rendering engine, can it take any size model you give it? I mean, does it only count the area you're rendering, or do you have to crop down the area thought about like you do with Radiosity?

[SkiSouth]

Jeffery,

I haven't been brave enough to do a really big model. Biggest one was of the interior of a house I posted. Exported the entire building from revit (3 floors) took it into Viz. Assigned materials and rendered. Maxwell didn't burp. The latest revision of Maxwell has added speed (along with two more processors) so that helped too.

I am guessing that the link will be interactive with the free standing Maxwell renderer. If the factory was willing to work with Next Limit, there would probably be an opportunity to take Native formats. That's the way Maya and Max are (of course they are plugins too). Unless we get our count up (on the poll) I got a feeling that dxf or dwg into max/viz might be our only choice anyway. Sketchup users are voting hard.

Actually, I think the plugins take the Maya, Max scene and write it out to a Maxwell format - the MXS files, which the Maxwell renderer then processes. The issue then will be how to assign materials in Revit for maxwell -....

[Scott Hopkins]

Revit users - please register and vote for the Revit plugin on the Maxwell Render forum. Even if you don't currently do a lot of renderings it would certainly be advantageous to have a high-end Renderer available for Revit when you need it.

[Joef]

Registered & voted. Neck and neck now with Archicad at 14%.

Joe

[Les Therrien]

We're @ 15%.
Still behind sketchup though.

[beegee]

OT.

SketchUp users can stop voting now, since there is already a plug-in to convert from SU to Maxwell....

There is an interesting utility 3ds2mxs, that converts 3DS Sketchup generated scenes to MXS Maxwell files. This is not oficially supported by Next Limit. Check this link or the download section for customers.

http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1748&highlight=rhino

[Kroke]

Jeffery,

I haven't been brave enough to do a really big model. Biggest one was of the interior of a house I posted. Exported the entire building from revit (3 floors) took it into Viz. Assigned materials and rendered. Maxwell didn't burp. The latest revision of Maxwell has added speed (along with two more processors) so that helped too.....

Can we see what you've done in your early stages? Do you have any posts using this software?

[beegee]

Check it out...

[Kroke]

Ok, does anyone have an exterior they've done via Revit/import to VIZ/MAX/whatever that use this board?

I'm trying to see the comparason from ppl like us in this forum.

[beegee]

There are lots by a C. Zoog.

Search his name and Viz*.