My partner is currently studying interior design, and has begun tackling courses involving room and furniture design. Being a 3d modeller in the past, i know what a viscious learning curve any software in this realm carries. Primarily she needs to be able to design interiors, inculding kitchen cabinetry etc, and my wish is that she be able to output quality 3d renders of her environments with as great ease as possible. I am far from impressed with auto-cads native renderer.
Her college recommends archicad for students doing architectural design, but have little recommendation outside this software. Hence i'm here to ask, Is archicad a suitable solution for an interior designer - or has anyone a recommendation where else to look? I have been unable to locate anything of a professional level that seems focused towards interior designers.
Any suggestions, or direction would be fantastic
Charles
You call this "speed" ?!?
I thought computers were supposed to speed up the process!
I thought computers were supposed to speed up the process!
Well, yeah. That is freaking fast (:D ). Couple years ago it was taking like 20 min. just to open simple model in 3d studio r, and rendering a test chevy scene was taking couple of hours (640x480 just phong and not eve raytrace). This scene here contain ~10 IES lights, translucency, blurred reflections DOS caustics, physically correct light, and probably couple other thing I forgot. That's why I think it is fast. It actually amazes me that with new more powerful computers we still tend to renders that take a lot of time (although with hugely improved quality). But personally I think we are finally there with rendering systems and faster computers will make it (unless we gonna start adding dust on the shelfs 
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Or droplets of water on the mirror!
I found the best solution for me - a outdated Max 6 plus the corresponding version of VRay! The just fly on a modern computer!
I visited your site - you've got some wonderful interior renderings there! 120 hours?😉
I found the best solution for me - a outdated Max 6 plus the corresponding version of VRay! The just fly on a modern computer!
I visited your site - you've got some wonderful interior renderings there! 120 hours?
Yes, I feel your pain!
Why Ferrraries are so expensive!
Why Ferrraries are so expensive!
I have been working on many BIM softwares, and I can firmly say that ArchiCAD is the best solution for Modeling and even for BIM Modeling for Architecture as well as Interiors Projects.
One can also render at much higher level using ArchiCAD's inbuilt Rendering Tools, it is in much depth, It's rendering results are nearer to 3Ds Max render results.
One can also render at much higher level using ArchiCAD's inbuilt Rendering Tools, it is in much depth, It's rendering results are nearer to 3Ds Max render results.
