Manuals nXt for AutoCAD - All Comments

re: Getting Started

kirkd — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 10:55:48 GMT

The new interface is so much better then AR4. I agree with the majority of the comments, the walkabout window is great for really fine tunig a view to render. AR4 in my opinion is horrible. I am a Landscape Architect that at times has big files to render. The lag time between model tabs and render tabs is way too long not to mention the time it takes to render big files. Being able to turn while a file is rendering would be great to be able to get a better angle if the one you initally selected just is not quite right without having to stop the rendering process.

I have a model of a big site that when I start to render some of the plant material is missing trees and shrubs.

I don't know if I am in the minority but the work I do tends to render overall sites for the clients to get a better understanding overall and then renders more tighter views to show the detail. A lot of the images that I see are single object specific. I don't know if the thinking behind AR3, AR4, or AR5 is with the tighter views in mind or with larger sites and or objects.

re: NXT for AutoCAD First time...

lpddesign_884 — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:39:13 GMT

same with renderingbeginner!,'need to know more..

re: Getting Started

jadery — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:58:43 GMT

Tenho que ter o autocadd revit ou posso instalar também no autocad arquitectural?

re: Textures

williamehalm — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:57:36 GMT

how do you get plants in nXt

and how do you access the aci numbers of the aec elements.

re: System Requirements

CADesign — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:05:59 GMT

Greetings -

Intellicad version is what I'm very interested in.

Any information on when this might be available in Beta (or Alpha) would be greatly appreciated. My platform is progeCAD (Intellicad Pro)

I've had Accurender for AutoCAD previously and loved it.

I am no longer a slave to Autodesk ... ;)

Thanks,

CADesign

re: System Requirements

jwchilders — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:45:42 GMT

I have AR4. How is this used in conjunction with nxt? How is it used with nxt and Revit?

re: Getting Started

dollakid2002 — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:51:02 GMT

I have one major problem with ar5 it does not over ride the wall style in autocad its as if they are not in ssync i have to go into the autocad aec editor to tell the material to use ar5 material and that is very time consumeing for me i need to be able to apply the materials directly and they take imediate effect. I am using ACA 2008.

re: Getting Started

scothand — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:58:32 GMT

After playing with this in AutoCAD Architecture 2009 for a while this morning, I _can_ work without the walkabout controls, gradually getting used to Autocad's built-in steering wheel nonsense. I thoroughly miss being able to use the arrow keys to move, but I understand that the new Autocad Walk can replace it.

I am running into the viewport size/orientation issue which was solved by having an internal walkabout view.

Easily, my biggest issue is the lack of material -> ACI. All of our models are built in the ADT/Architecture modeling system, so the walls, doors, etc... all are based in Xrefs and pulled from Autocad's material designations (which I've set up to relate ACI to material). I got used to this system using AR3 with Archtiectural Desktop 2006, and think it works beautifully.

re: System Requirements

francish — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:36:04 GMT

I am very interested in testing nXt with sketchup - is it available?

thanks

re: Getting Started

trim6116 — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:41:02 GMT

Please keep the Walkabout function. It is the best way to set views and fine tune the viewers position. AutoCAD is lousy at setting views. AR5 Interface is pretty clean so far......please keep it clean. I feel the AR4 interface is too cluttered and sluggish - I loved the simplicity of the old AR3 menus.

re: NXT for AutoCAD First time...

gonmdq — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:01:55 GMT

when y tried to open the program, this is what happens

Command: (ARXLOAD "C:/Archivos de programa/AccuRender nXt/AccuRender nXt.arx")

; error: ARXLOAD failed

re: Getting Started

saeed — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:09:49 GMT

cool man its ok ill see onit

Additional HDRI Skies

Tutorials nXt for Sketchup — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:56:29 GMT

The next version of IRender nXt will add 6 more HDRI skies for you to easily select. You can also use

re: Getting Started

apspack — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:56:03 GMT

tdoremus- ACAD renderer maxes out at 4000px wide. Not anywhere near high res enough for large presentation renderings. I often do 7200px wide. Also I noticed the networking of the material library does not work as well (or at all) compared to accurender.

I like the new streamlined interface, ar4 seemed overly clunky and slow (even on quad core machine) keep it up and get this software out so I can render in vista! I have had problems with tech support and getting ar4 to read my mat libraries in vista, so I am eager to stop switching back and forth to XP.

re: Getting Started

tdoremus — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:55:03 GMT

I was building my material library using texture maps that I use for the AutoCAD renderer materials, and ACAD crashed. When I re-opened the document, I had lost all of my AR5 materials and will have to start all over. Are you blocking the autosave? If the materials don't appear in the load list, does that mean they're not recorded in the .dwg, or do I have to purge it now?

By the way, the default ACAD renderer now does a pretty good job, so I'm wondering what you expect the added value of AR in AutoCAD to be.