From the course: Enscape Essential Training for Revit

Understanding Views - Enscape Tutorial

From the course: Enscape Essential Training for Revit

Start my 1-month free trial Buy for my team

Understanding Views

“

- [Instructor] To have a better understanding of how our 3D views look inside of Revit, the first thing that I would like to do is just set up my Revit environment, since I'm only on one screen, to show both Revit and Enscape at the exact same time. So to accomplish that, I'm just going to come up here, click on Revit, hold my mouse button down, and then drag it all the way over to the left-hand side. So right now I have Windows 10, and this works in Windows 11 as well. You can just pull it all the way on over to the side here, in that single monitor. And then it'll try to fill in just that one-half of your screen. Now I'm going to do the same thing with my Enscape. I'm just going to try to pull it back over here. But now in my case, I happen to have a secondary monitor over to the side. So one of the things that you're seeing is that it's not automatically just sort of filling in over here. What I need to do is start to just kind of move up here until I'm touching the top of this view, and then begin to let go. Now what that's doing is it is filling in the entire top of the screen. But the nice thing is is that now I can just start to restore it down by clicking on this little button right here, and then just pull this window over until it's basically even with the edge of where Revit is located at. So now that we can see here inside of Revit, we have the Revit view. And then over here on this side, we have the Enscape view. This also brings up another interesting fact, and that is if Revit ends up being too small to show all the different little buttons that are associated with Enscape, it will start to put them underneath each one of their major categories. And at that point, you can just hover over them, and then you will see each of the buttons associated with those tools, those commands. So there's a good chance that if you have a larger screen, that if I pull this over, it'll look more like this. But for some of my exercises, as I pull this back over again, they will shrink themselves down just because of the screen real estate that we have. But going to our views themselves, meaning the views inside of Enscape, and which view should be displaying. Those will be reflective of the views that show up as 3D Views underneath your Project Browser. For instance, if I wanted to go to 3D View 2, inside of Revit I come to this section right here, I wait for it to regenerate, and then it'll show all those different 3D views. I can select on 3D View 2. You can see that there's this little circle that starts to spin. It means that my computer is processing. And what's really interesting is is that Revit itself won't update to that view that you've just selected, but Enscape itself will. And we can just see that it just spun itself around so that it's facing the same direction as our 3D View 2. If I came down here to 3D View 5, it's now taken us to an interior view, which is what 3D View 5 inside of Revit is set up to be viewing. Point being is, is that you can set up a variety of different views inside of your Revit environment, and then just by selecting on the appropriate view, you'll then get that view inside of Enscape. And this is a really good feature to use if you're giving presentations and you want to talk about just specific rooms, because all you need to do is just select on the appropriate room inside of Revit, and then it will automatically render that inside of Enscape. So you can do further commands and have further conversations about that space.

Contents