The AR experience no longer requires “exotic hardware” such as an external depth camera, he explained. “The great thing about where we’re at now is, this is consumer hardware,” stressed Donley. These aren’t brand-new capabilities in the design world what is breaking new ground, however, is the movement away from spendy, dedicated hardware for AR toward more affordable, widely available devices. In this example, models of office furniture are overlaid on the real-world empty office space. Users can position, scale, and zoom in on models with standard touchscreen gestures.Īs a Vectorworks Nomad user holding a phone or tablet walks through an area, they can explore a model as if it were part of the environment, examining various angles and views as they reach different vantage points. This perspective can help communicate the visual impact of designs to project stakeholders in an intuitive way, with no CAD or BIM experience needed. With the new AR viewing mode, Nomad users can see full-scale Vectorworks models overlaid on their real-world settings (or scaled down, similar to a traditional tabletop architectural model this video demonstrates both options). Just as a 3D presentation can often communicate design intent more effectively than 2D, AR goes yet a step further by incorporating design elements into the viewer’s actual environment, explained Alex Nicol, mobile team manager at Vectorworks. Part of Vectorworks Cloud Services, the free app enables users to view their 3D Vectorworks models on smartphones and tablets.ĪR is an “obvious” fit for AEC, a realm in which there are “so many cases where you want to see a virtual model at scale in the real world,” said Dave Donley, director of product technology at Vectorworks. Vectorworks, a developer of design and building information modeling (BIM) software, has announced the addition of augmented reality (AR) model-viewing capabilities to its Vectorworks Nomad mobile app. With Nomad, AEC-Focused Augmented Reality Makes the Journey to Consumer-Level Devices 30 Jan, 2018 By: Cyrena Respini-Irwin The addition of AR capabilities to the Vectorworks Cloud Services app highlights the ways that in-context architectural visualization is rapidly becoming more accessible - no exotic hardware required.
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