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Using 3ds Max and Arnold for Design Presentation and Installation Sequence

Using 3ds Max and Arnold for Design Presentation and Installation Sequence

Customer challenge

Chevalier (Aluminium Engineering) Limited offers design, manufacturing, installation, testing and maintenance services for customers. With years of continuous expansion, it is now a leading contractor of curtain walls, metal cladding, glass walls, skylights, louvers, aluminum windows and granite cladding in Hong Kong. During the design phase, physical mock-ups are traditionally required to let customers understand the design intents. However, it takes time and cost to prepare the physical mock-ups and they can only capture certain design elements. Additionally, a new mock-up may be required when there is a design change.

Project goals

Chevalier wanted an alternative and effective way to verify their curtain wall designs by using an innovative visualization solution.

Solution

As 3D BIM models have been introduced and developed over the past recent years, the need for physical mock-ups can now be replaced by visualization presentations to provide a more accurate and realistic design, and to better verify the design and the construction operations as well. The visualization solutions used for this project are Autodesk 3ds Max and Arnold, to provide high quality realistic rendering for presentations, and also animation for showcasing the installation sequence. 3ds Max can work seamlessly with other 3D modelling software, such as Autodesk Inventor and also has interoperability with Autodesk Revit. It also supports PBR materials that can provide an accurate representation of how light interacts with surfaces of the curtain walls. Autodesk Arnold is a world-class rendering software for animation and visual effects.

Business outcome

3ds Max was used to simulate the realistic lighting effect and physical material, and Arnold was used to produce installation sequence animation. As a result, significant time was saved during the design review stage and the final workflow produced higher quality products.

Conclusion

With the use of a BIM model, Chevalier can now better communicate and visualize the design issues; hence, risk is reduced and the productivity and build quality is greatly improved.

Project summary

    Duration & delivery

  • 90
  • 2020-12-30

    Autodesk solutions

  • 3ds Max
  • Arnold

    Services provided

  • Design Visualization
  • Rendering & Animation

    Customer industry

  • Construction
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