While it’s amazing that you can see a live, path-traced render that reflects model changes instantly and can be explored in VR, what if the person who needs to see the model has none of that fancy hardware?

VR is a great technology, but with Enscape we think it’s found a particularly strong niche. This way clients and designers can stand in the finished project before a single real part of it is ever made. The software supports mainstream headsets such as the Rift S and HTC Vive and lets users fly through models in first-person, getting a true sense for the size and scope of the virtual space. This ability to reflect real time model updates and show incredibly photoreal images in real time feel a little wasted on a flat screen, so it’s a good thing that Enscape has support for VR built right in. All while seeing a photo realistic representation of what the final product will actually look like. This makes it easy to visualize client requests and comments or to iterate on design decisions. So if you make changes to the model, you can see them reflected in the render instantly. The truly killer feature of Enscape in our opinion is the fact that it’s linked live to the CAD model the render is based on. Team members and even external stakeholders can easily view the latest version of the render and communicate clearly with each other about what needs to happen. It’s rare for a single designer to work on complex projects, so it’s great that Enscape offers collaborative tools which lets a team of people go through the 3D render and annotate areas which need help of one kind or another. It uses OpenGL and Vulkan, which is one of the reasons it performs so well as a real-time solution. Wide CompatibilityĮnscape is not a standalone program, but a plugin that works with some of the most popular rendering packages on the market:

It takes your CAD plan and turns it into a visual render almost as good as the real end product will be. It’s a real-time rendering plugin that’s finding great support among architects and engineers.Įnscape uses an ingenious approach to create path-traced, material accurate render with a global illumination system. Enscape is a fantastic example of this trend. Thanks to ever increasing GPU and CPU power, it’s now possible to achieve things with real-time rendering that would simply have been impossible not too long ago.

Enscape rhino plugin