What’s New in Enscape 4.1?
Enscape 4.1 focuses on elevating visualization and performance. Its features and functionalities let you create visually stunning designs while ensuring they are viable, energy-efficient, and sustainable. Let’s explore!
Enscape Impact Beta
Enscape Impact is a new building performance analysis component that allows real-time energy performance assessments during the early stages of design, promoting sustainability and efficiency. It allows architects and designers to conduct real-time energy performance assessments during the early stages of design, helping to make informed decisions that enhance sustainability and efficiency.
It’s is a low-cost to purchase solution that requires no prior training or experience, making it accessible for users at any skill level. It delivers very fast, near real-time results, utilizing trusted and proven technology and methodologies from IES. Enscape Impact provides visual, understandable, and comparable results, going beyond just spreadsheets and numbers to offer a more comprehensive and intuitive experience.
Workflow without Enscape Impact
- Challenges of Separate Workflows: Architects use BIM for design, while engineers conduct performance analysis separately in software like IES offers. Time and cost are significant as models must be manually recreated to fit engineers’ analytical tools.
- Verify assumptions: Engineers must understand design intent, leading to lengthy discussions and model adjustments.
- Converting Models: Engineers spend time recreating models inside their analytical software. Often there isn’t a direct import.
- Verification of Design Intent: Architects and engineers verify the alignment between design intent and analytical models.
- Opportunity for Unified Workflow: Integrating analysis directly into design streamlines collaboration and reduces time and costs.
- Engineering reports: Engineers run the calculations, and generate reports that are not architect/client user-friendly. If all stakeholders are happy, the documentation is submitted for approval, but if not, and there is a change in the initial architectural project, the process starts from step one.
Workflow with Enscape Impact
Real-time feedback enables informed design decisions and enhances the efficiency and sustainability of the project. Chaos aims to integrate building performance analysis seamlessly into design workflow, similar to how they have integrated visualization.
Other Enscape Updates
- AI Enhancer: Automatically improves the detail and realism of assets, speeding up your workflow and enhancing visual quality.
- Artistic Visual Modes: Allows designers to create images simulating pencil or watercolor drawings, ideal for conceptual stages to express design intent uniquely.
- Colored Shadows for Artificial Lights: Adds dynamic-colored shadows from artificial lighting, enhancing interior renderings with realistic effects.
- Updated glass material: Enables users to apply textures to glass materials, with shadows reflecting these patterns, perfect for realistic stained-glass effects.
- New People & Vegetation Assets: Fill your scenes with life with over 150 new assets, including 10 new people and 100+ vegetation assets.
Licensing Updates
- Switch to Chaos Licensing: Enscape 4.1 now integrates with the Chaos licensing system, merging Chaos and Enscape licenses.
- Login-Based Activation: Activation now requires a Chaos Account login instead of a license key, streamlining the licensing process.
- Central License Server: Floating licenses are managed through a central license server, allowing Enscape to be enabled on any machine that can connect to it.
- New License Purchases: New licenses will utilize the Chaos licensing model, and no longer generate license keys, ensuring easier management and deployment.
Conclusion
Whether you’re a seasoned Enscape user or just getting started, Enscape 4.1 offers exciting new features for everyone!
