For sole practitioners, the fixed seat license is what I recommend. The fixed seat license cost me AUD 639 per year, with the floating license costing a little bit more at just under AUD 1,100.

Most importantly, VR is only two clicks of the mouse away from the 3D window in Archicad! LicensingĮnscape has two licensing types available, fixed seat and floating. Essentially Enscape covers the weaknesses of Archicad in communicating the design in a fast and efficient manner and opens Archicad up to VR, which in my opinion, is a must-have for every Architectural project that I deliver.

As a plugin, Enscape directly connects to Archicad via API and enables Architects using Archicad to produce a wide variety of outputs to assist them in communicating with their stakeholders.Įnscape can export 3D photorealistic perspectives, 360-degree panoramas (cloud-based or downloadable), executable files, and cloud-based model saving (to enable manual navigation without Enscape or Archicad loaded on your computer), fly-through movies, and most importantly, Virtual Reality navigation. This weakness in the BIM authoring tools has seen the creation of real-time rendering software, Enscape. The problems with these BIM authoring tools are that the quality of the 3D outputs that they create are typically not to a high enough standard, or to create a high-quality image takes a very long time to render. To assist in clearly communicating, Architects across the globe have changed their processes from working and drawing in 2D, to creating virtual models to generate their documentation. If you cannot communicate your design then stakeholders will not understand it, or even worse, misinterpret it completely. Embedded video for Visualisation and VR made easy for Archicad users through EnscapeĬommunicating your design as an Architect is one of the most important parts of your role.

Enscape for archicad