Veras AI Rendering Add-in for Revit

Veras is an AI-powered visualization add-in for Revit. Developed by Evolve Lab, this tool allows you to quickly generate architectural concept designs based on your working Revit model by entering natural language prompts. Currently, it's a useful tool to quickly explore material palettes, but we can imagine this plugin developing to become an integral part of the design process in Revit and other modeling software.
Download the (Evolve Lab / Veras) Plugin:
www.evolvelab.io/veras
Exterior Rendering Setup:
forum.evolvelab.io/t/renderin...
Interior Rendering Setup:
forum.evolvelab.io/t/renderin...
00:00 - Intro
01:02 - Setup and Tutorial
04:23 - Setting Comparisons
07:33 - Exterior Renderings
09:30 - Interior Renderings
13:13 - Bonus (AI Architectural Drawings)
#artificialintelligence #architecture #revit

[@aliaqaeimehr8964]

Wow!! it is so impressive! you can get lots of inspirations of design!

[@StephenCoorlas]

Yes! It's a great tool for inspiration at the concept level of design.

[@planetarytiger]

love this one bro!

[@StephenCoorlas]

Right on!🤘

[@5amsa_3mara]

Awesome, thank you very much ❤️

[@StephenCoorlas]

Hope it was informative 🤘🏼

[@Scythra]

The most amazing feat so far to me is that AI has the capability to not think as a human. We all have pre-conceived notions of how things should work because of our education, background, culture. But AI doesn’t need to conform to these ‘human set rules’. It can show new effective ways in which us humans never thought of. As an inspiration tool for architects it can be very revolutionary, but not limited to that. How about new construction types? Designed by AI, which has similarities with Generative Design, but added a layer of intelligence and self learning. Veras is a nice step in the right direction, with more and more data being send and pooled from it could grow to very broad bounds.

[@StephenCoorlas]

These are great thoughts. There are definitely many avenues AI will help us explore that may not have come naturally without it. I'm excited to help push these thought processes forward 🤘

[@marysketch4772]

Nice to see all of the examples you provided with the sliders at different points. Good point about wanting the examples to indicate what their settings were. In the interior view, I am curious about whether you had materials specified in the model, and if Veras reads those, and to what extent, because it seemed like it changed the floor tile in the shower willy-nilly. Also excited to see construction drawings created by AI. I'm waiting for the SketchUp version. I hope clients will still want a SketchUp (more detailed?) version of a (commercial) interior; but this Revit interior shot looked good.

[@StephenCoorlas]

Thank you! Yes, with my company we do all modeling and rendering in Revit and materials are specified. Veras worked more consistently when you turn down the creativity slider to hold the generated image more closely to the prompt and your model. But if you all it to be creative it will definitely change the look/feel of your materials and model geometry.

[@UHStudio]

Nice. Looks like stable diffusion indeed and I have been playing with a similar addon for Blender that takes images and edits them. Honestly, it feel like until the AI text to image prompts can learn to keep some elements of the image true to the concept, we are either in wonderful La la land of endless inspirations with midjourney or nowhere close to real project application

[@StephenCoorlas]

I feel the exact same way. I'm more excited for the prospect of this type of software/plugin than it's current capabilities. I think the major disconnect is in the 2D representation vs 3D modeled elements. Once the AI recommendations can automatically become model components, then the tool will truly be a time saver for producing AI architecture 🤘

[@filipmelnikov8411]

@@StephenCoorlas And perhaps, after that, many of us will lose our jobs.

[@StephenCoorlas]

@@filipmelnikov8411 There will remain a market for architects and designers who do not adopt these technologies - The same way many firms still operate using 2D AutoCAD, and the same way the printing press replaced people who dedicated their lives to copying books by hand. Perhaps some jobs will be lost, but new ones are created, and this is a sign of progress, which could bring upon more good in the world, if it is applied responsibly.

[@rodfarid2056]

This is crazyyyyy

[@StephenCoorlas]

Right? The tech is evolving quickly!

[@gandepuun]

Crazy stuff. Where do you get those Revit interior assets and furniture from?

[@StephenCoorlas]

I made most of them - some of them I get on revitcity

[@joaopaulobarbieri4910]

when you change the camera the style kepping or have any change?

[@StephenCoorlas]

Unfortunately it will change slightly. There's no way to keep the exact style or geometry between different views.

[@checkitout5146]

heyy so one question. can it render floor plans like we do in photoshop?

[@StephenCoorlas]

Great question I actually did not try that. Definitely worth a try though

[@checkitout5146]

@@StephenCoorlas let me know

[@oscarfernandez6830]

I have one problem with revit. Every time I switch from consistent colors to REALISTIC VIEW, it takes a very long time, and after that the model disappears and everything appears white

[@StephenCoorlas]

Hey, you actually don’t need to switch to realistic view for the Veras add-in to work. The same thing happened with my model so I just kept it in shaded view mode

[@oscarfernandez6830]

@@StephenCoorlas Thank you. But it seems very weird. ever since Started using higher versions of Revit this happens

[@StephenCoorlas]

@@oscarfernandez6830 That is weird. You'll need to review your graphics card to see if the higher versions of Revit are more demanding on your computer hardware.

[@oscarfernandez6830]

@@StephenCoorlas That is exactly what I thought! If that happens it must be the graphics card.