Twinmotion
Am I correct in my inital searching that Twinmotion for BricsCAD is free for companies under $1m in turnover?
Is anyone using this combination and what are your thoughts?
Comments
-
Yes that is correct. I`ve only just tried it a little bit and it seems like a really god way to visualize your work.
Syncronizing changes in BricsCAD with Twinmotion is also very easy.
I did however land on using Blender instead, mostly because its more familiar to me and did not plan to visualize anything for a customer or such, if so I had gone with Twinmotion, it seems intuitive and fun to work with.
1 -
As a complete beginner with 3D visualisation (which is a different world from 3D CAD) I'm plodding through https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/tutorials/xj8n/twinmotion-2025-1-beginner-s-guide-getting-started-with-twinmotion-for-stunning-visualizations running at 0.75 speed with subtitles on, backtracking, taking notes. A similarly comprehensive 'complete beginners' tutorial for Bricscad or Autocad before that would have saved me much agony over the years. Twinmotion's UI seems so far to do a brilliant job at laying out the amazing number of parameters, as close to 'intuitive' as could be - and not a dreaded Ribbon in sight! What a complete dead end the Microsoft Ribbon has been, distracting developers from creating intuitive UI's such as this one - and such as the new generation of CAD tools have, speeding their uptake and bidding to leave even Bricscad in the dust!
0 -
I have set it up, linked and synced a 3D Cad drawing in BricsCAD v24 and it all works as it should.
My initial problem is that the imported model is that even if you select a single entity like a column and apply a material to it, that material is applied to everything in on that layer from the CAD model rendering (pun) it useless.
It didn't behave like that when I used to use it with Sketchup a few years back.
Hoping there's a simple solution to that
0 -
if you select a single entity like a column and apply a material to it, that material is applied to everything in on that layer
Could it be related to your "import" options ?
Like when you choose to combine "by Material", which usually creates a single Mesh from all Objects using a same Material.
(At least I remember having had such import options for Vectorworks exports, like use CAD hierarchy, Material, ….)Sorry, can't test - I'm on Mac
(nada Datasmith and a few other exchange formats)
0 -
I'll have a look on my return from my curent work trip. Don't recall seeing options for import but I hadn't used TM for afew years and have only done initial setup and sync to see if it worked thus far.
0 -
Good tip - anyone know if there's a forum or source of YouTubes, maybe Reddit, which covers the specific, prob specialist/minority Twinmotion use-case of using it to render 3d-solids CAD building models? It could be a formal Category in this forum, but I've found they're reluctant to add more.
0 -
which covers the specific, prob specialist/minority Twinmotion use-case of using it to render 3d-solids CAD building models?
Usually on the CAD vendor forums or Twinmotion forums (huge)
Vectorworks has also Twinmotion Exchange via Datasmith. And as VW has already a pretty usable Material/Camera/Light/Environment/Render system (C4D), exchange to Twinmotion looks very promising. Same for Archicad and a few others that offer exchange plugins from within their App.
Just that I heard that reloading an updated VW CAD Model by synch may not always work as expected (partially loss of Material assignment or overwritings in Twinmotion). But I did not really test exchange/update quality for some years now.0 -
Zoomer: "Usually on the CAD vendor forums …" - but
Tom Foster: "It could be a formal Category in this forum, but I've found they're reluctant to add more."
So should Bricscad be 'persuaded'? It's certainly weakly documented in Help.
0 -
Over at Cadtutor there are a number of users of "Blender", may be of interest to you. Look at the Showcase section.
0
