Learning AccuRender nXt

[Sean Casey]

Hi Guys,

 

I took the plunge last night and purchased AccuRender nXt. I have been using AutoCAD for many years to produce 2D drawings then moved on to 3D modelling. I was dissatisfied with AutoCAD’s built in render engine and tried AccuRender AR3, it was an improvement on AutoCAD but still didn’t match up to Vray, Vray is a rendering package my former employee had started to use alongside Rhino. I aspired to produce professional images like his and even undertook a course to use Rhino, simply so I could use Vray which was not compatible with AutoCAD. But as ever time was a factor and I didn’t commit to learning the software. I recently came back to AccuRender nXt and was impressed enough by the forum gallery, especially Peter Milner’s rendering which are awesome to have a second look at AccuRender..

 

I learn best by seeing what is possible and striving to replicate hence the getting started tutorial was invaluable where you have to produce a fishing rod from the given dwg file and textures.

http://www.accurender.com/page/help-reference

 

I also downloaded Peter’s model..

http://www.accurender.com/forum/topics/sample-interior?id=6293855%3...

 

Alongside the image of the final rendering. This would have been great as I mainly design furniture and hoped to use Peter’s studio setup for my initial rendering until I became proficient enough to create my own. Unfortunately although I could down load and open the file, when I tried to launch AccuRender nXt my PC just hung and froze and I had to reboot each time. I even tried deleting the furniture to make it a smaller file as I thought my PC wasn’t up to handling large files but to no avail.

 

If any you guys have good rendered images of furniture I would be grateful if you could share the CAD file, file image and textures so I could try to emulate them.

 

Look forward to being a member of the forum, learning from your combined knowledge and experience and spending some long, often frustrating and finally rewarding days rendering...

[Chas / Aug Posekany]

For interior models a great starting enviroment is the standard "studio" light scheme.

If you work in a lot of wood grains get familar with the mapping options (these were a real trick for me at first).

As you get to where you add lights or light fixtures don't overlook the use of lighting channels.

 

I don't think the sample from Peter should have put a great burden on your machine. I don't know why you had issues with it.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

What build of nXt do you have?

[Sean Casey]

AccuRender nXt 0249 current stable version for 32 bit PC

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

I'll test the current build against Peter's model in a bit-- but as I recall, as Chas says, this model should not be stressing a 32 bit system.  I'll let you know if I find anything.  Otherwise, something else is probably wrong.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

So I did try this out.  No real problems running this on a 32 bit system-- a tad sluggish maybe-- but really fine.  Allocated about 630MB of memory-- very comfortable.  Not sure what's up in your case.  I did the following:

 

1. Opened sample office.dwg.
2. Pressed the WalkAbout button.
3. Pressed the Render button on the WalkAbout screen.