Thursday, March 14, 2013

Artlantis Members subscription

Whether you're on a project deadline and you need an Artlantis object quickly, or you just want to add a nice new set of objects or shaders to your collection, Artlantis Members is a great resource and an incredible value. Artlantis Members is a website dedicated to assembling the finest collection of Artlantis media on the internet.

A subscription to Artlantis Members includes exclusive online access to the artlantismembers.com media library. As a member, all of the objects in the Artlantis Media Section are free, limited to 15 downloads per day. Membership is offered in both a 6 and 12 month subscription for your convenience.

Browse thousands of high-quality objects for Artlantis, and download them right away. Move them into your Artlantis media folder, and you are ready to go!

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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Artlantis Batch Render

Artlantis Batch Render is a separate application (installed alongside Artlantis in the Artlantis program folder) that is used to render one or more images/animations placed in a rendering queue. Batch Render is a useful production tool, especially when rendering a series of images overnight or over the weekend. Watch this video to learn more about how to use Batch Render to manage your rendering queue.

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Fast Render launches Artlantis Render Farm

PARIS, March 12, 2013 -- Fast Render, a subsidiary of Abvent S.A. and ND 3D Image and Film, has announced the launch of Artlantis Render Farm, offering powerful rendering calculation services to Artlantis users around the world.

Artlantis Render Farm offers the Artlantis user community more than 300 CPU's to produce photo-realistic still images or complex, high-definition animations with the high quality settings that clients demand, at a fraction of the average rendering times.

Artlantis Render Farm currently supports Artlantis Render and Artlantis Studio versions 3 and 4. In the future, the current version and the immediately previous version will be supported.  Users have the option to ask for either an Artlantis engine calculation or a Maxwell Render engine calculation.

"We are pleased to be working with the Artlantis power users at ND 3D on this project," said Xavier Soule, CEO of Abvent. "Artlantis Render Farm's speed, strength, and affordability will allow Artlantis users around the world to produce the highest quality images and animations possible," he added.

Visit Artlantis Render Farm for more information.



About Abvent
Since 1985, the Abvent Group has offered innovative image and design solutions for CAD professionals in the fields of architecture and design, and photography. For over 25 years, Abvent's cutting edge approach to digital imagery has resulted in products and services that are innovative, powerful, and easy-to-use.  Abvent develops and publishes Artlantis, a family of stand-alone 3D rendering applications developed especially for architects and designers, ideal for quickly and easily creating high-resolution 3D renderings, iVisit 3D Panoramas, QuickTime® VR Objects and animations.  A recognized leader in preview window technology, Artlantis is the rendering software used by architects, designers and urban design professionals in more than 80 countries.

About ND 3D Image & Film
ND 3D Image & Film has been offering high quality 3D image and film services to the real estate market since 1998. ND 3D Image & Film has succeeded in providing 3D services to the real estate sector, as well as in architecture, engineering, and construction. Supplying 3D image and film services, their clients have been able to experience the best there is in virtual communication support tools, designed specifically for the real estate market. With 3D images and films produced for projects all around the world, ND 3D Image & Film's high quality services have been widely recognized by the top market players.

Monday, March 11, 2013

AIA ARCHITECT Live Co-host Contest!

Get ready for your close-up!  Submit a 2-minute audition video March 8-29 for the chance to co-host ARCHITECT Live at the 2013 AIA National Convention with Stephen Chung, AIA, ARCHITECT Live host.  Two lucky winners will be selected by popular vote and will receive an all-expense-paid trip to the 2013 AIA National Convention.  AIA members, AIAS members, and students are eligible.

For more information, visit the contest website!

Thursday, March 07, 2013

Life of an Architect Playhouse Competition

"Whooo-weee! Hard to believe that it’s already been a year but I am proud to say that it’s time for the 2nd Annual Life of an Architect Playhouse Competition!! Last years event was a spectacular success (many thanks to those who participated) and I am hopeful that we can have similar – and possibly greater involvement this year. At the end of last years inaugural playhouse competition we were able to build two playhouses. This year we know that we can do two, but we are shooting for three!!

So let’s get to the details shall we?"

Click here for the details!

The Artlantis Forum is BACK!

The new, improved Artlantis Forum is back online and ready for you!  The Artlantis Forum is a great place to meet other users, exchange ideas, and discuss a wide range of technical subjects about Artlantis. Whether you’re a new user or a computer graphics specialist, the Artlantis Forum is an excellent resource of how-to tips, tricks, and technical information for your projects.

Click here to visit the Artlantis Forum!

Tuesday, March 05, 2013

BIMobject® Weber Saint-Gobain Artlantis rendering in 3D

The products are the first in this range and include facade renders, Leca® Blocks as wall composites, and detailed BIM objects. The ranges are developed both to cover the needs for BIM users in visualization, project work, 3D detailing, and even in advanced construction and production models.

The Weber BIM objects are available for various 3D visualization systems, as system families for Revit, Composite wall structures in ArchiCAD, but also as individual parametric objects and wall systems. The Leca® Blocks can used in a very advanced way for construction analysis and quantity take offs.

Sunday, March 03, 2013

Language support integrated into the BIMobject portal

Multi-language support will greatly enhance the experience for many users and make it easier to access and use the BIM objects published on the portal. This further supports the BIMobject mission, of being the primary global BIM object content provider for the building industry, by attracting more BIM users across the world.

The version released provides the BIM object catalogue in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and German. More languages will be added during 2013.

All search, filter and integrated functions are available in the different languages so users can use the portal in their native language or the language required for the project. All the language features are available immediately in the highly popular BIMobject APP for Autodesk Revit and AutoCAD.

The integrated support for languages in the BIMobject portal also benefits international component manufacturers with a much reduced maintenance on making available country specific BIM objects. And where manufacturers have their own private clouds to publish BIMobject catalogues, they can also choose the most appropriate language.

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Monday, February 25, 2013

Updated! Artlantis teams with Vectorworks at Ecobuild 2013

PARIS, February 25, 2013 -- Artlantis and Vectorworks will team up at this year's Ecobuild (Stand N420) to present a series of BIM and project presentations from relevant industry professionals for architects, interior designers, and landscape designers.  Company representatives will be on hand to discuss one-on-one the latest product features as well as specific projects.

Ecobuild (March 5-7, 2013, London’s ExCeL) is the world’s largest event for sustainable design, construction and the built environment, drawing over 57,000 industry decision-makers from 120 countries each year, including the largest gathering of architects and specifiers in the UK.

For 25+ years, Nemetschek Vectorworks has been a global leader in design technologies providing elegant architectural software that offers Building Information Modelling (BIM); landscape, urban and garden software that provides Site Information Modelling (SIM) and lighting design capabilities in a flexible, hybrid-design environment. 

Artlantis is the perfect software for Vectorworks users, allowing them to present their projects with 3D photorealistic renderings. Artlantis enables you to improve and bring realism to your Vectorworks models with 3D objects and textures. Texture your models with high resolution shaders to obtain a very realistic effect, then set your scene with as many light sources as you want.

These two programs will work for you in a complementary way, helping you to complete even the most ambitious projects, and giving your presentations the look you want.


View the Vectorworks / Artlantis presentation schedule at Stand N420 here!

Download the Vectorworks plug-in for Artlantis here!

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