Using Revit Phases to Visualize Selective White Mode in Enscape
There's Enscape white mode, and there's real-world material mode. But sometimes you need a bit of both in order to highlight part of the design. The good news is you're just seconds away from a selective white mode using Revit Phases and Enscape!
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Visualizing everything in the design equally at all times isn't always useful. In some cases, it's more useful to highlight only a part of the design, while still having the rest of the design as visual context. This technique will allow you to explore the design live with most of the design in white mode for context, with select elements displayed with real-world materials.
Caveat: This technique doesn't work with Enscape assets rendered in Enscape, which aren't affected by Revit Phase / material overrides.
To get started, we'll use this Revit sample project, but any sample project will do. Begin by setting the Phase Filter to Show Complete.
Select Phasing and Phase Filters tab. In the Show Complete row set the New category to Overridden. Note that the Existing category is already set to By Category.
Next, select the Graphic Overrides tab and Material setting for Phase - New.
Select the Phase - New material, and the Appearance tab. Set the color to White.
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Now select OK to exit all the dialogs. Since everything in this project was created in the New Construction phase, and the Phase Filter is set to Show Complete, everything has it's material overridden and now displays as white.
Next, select a few objects and set Phase Created to Existing.
As a result, the elements in the Existing phase will display By-Category, while the remaining elements will display as Overridden (and white).
And here's the results in Enscape.
Of course, you could simulate this technique in post production by exporting two versions of the same view, and then combining the two views in a photo editing tool. But the nice thing about this technique is that you can review and explore the design live. This allows you to selectively draw attention to part of the design displaying real world materials while having the rest of the design as neutral context.
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As a company that values innovation and continuous learning, we were thrilled to see this insightful post. The Revit workflows and shortcuts shown here are game-changers, and we're excited to apply them to our projects. Thank you for sharing your expertise!
Director of Design Technology at Lake|Flato Architects | National AIA COTE Leadership
1 年A classic "Phil Read" workflow I first learned from Phil years ago when he still worked for Autodesk... at an event hosted by CTC Software in Minneapolis! Glass needs a little extra attention in this workflow:)