Virtual Building Explorer (Global Illumination)

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Explore
Using Graphisoft Virtual Building Explorer and ArchiCAD architects and designers can explore their project designs with greater clarity than ever before.

Real-time 3D navigation in an architectural design – enhanced with stereo viewing modes, gravity, layer control, fly-mode, egress recognition and pre-saved walkthroughs for the ultimate design exploration.

Element information – surface finishes, volumes, sizes and quantities – also can be displayed with a click of the mouse. Exact measurements can be taken during the real-time walkthrough to help design decisions and forecast cost related design issues.

Communicate
VB Explorer provides shaded, Open-GL or Global Illumination view styles combined with grayscale, hidden-line or edge-outlined presentation modes for the ultimate design understanding and communication.

The Sun altitude and azimuth; the camera height and viewing cone as well as the image brightness and transparency can be altered for professional project presentation and design communication.

Share
Share your design intent and the architectural project with virtually anyone without installing any application or learning any new software.

All stakeholders - clients, consultants, builders, etc. - can explore and fully understand the entire architectural project design at any stage of the design development process in a user friendly 3D navigation environment. And all this without the need to hold a license of Graphisoft ArchiCAD or Virtual Building Explorer!

The Virtual Building Explorer “flavors”


• VBE creates 3D virtual design presentations with the help of its built-in shaded Open-GL rendering engine ensuring professional presentation quality. Edge outline can also be activated to provide greater contrast between elements.
• * VBEG creates 3D virtual design presentations using the shaded Open-GL rendering engine combined with Global Illumination - produced by the built-in radiosity rendering engine. GI ensures even more realistic visualization – incorporating soft shadows, diffuse inter-reflections, “bleed”.

New Features in ArchiCAD 14!

Runs on both Windows and Mac OS platforms

Option to save self-running application cross platform project files

Option to measure distances in imperial or metric units

New simple rendering styles (Headlight, Goraud and Metal) allow navigation even in large models on low-end graphics cards

New Background Options: Sky, Black, Gradient

Option to display the Sun Flare during navigation

Option to turn-off the sun shadows (F3) in Headlight mode




* System requirements: ArchiCAD14, Display: Virtual Building Explorer supports 1024x768 or higher resolution. Video card: Open GL 1.4 and DirectX 9 compatible graphics card with 256 MB or more on-board video memory is recommended to fully exploit hardware acceleration capabilities. To find compatibility data for video cards, please visit this website.

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