10 blender addons for architecture

[Music] hey guys and welcome to Top Channel 101 and today we're going to be looking at the best Splinter items for architects as you know blender is a software used by a lot of artists for different purposes so it's not surprising that there are add-ons that are designed for specific things as well last time we looked at 10 add-ons used by visual effects artists so today let's look at a different industry let's look at add-ons that blender Architects use [Music] if you have a house or building design in blender and need a cross-section render of the walls techsec is an add-on that will give you a set of tools to achieve that it is a great way to show the wall composition of your building and you can easily bisect the building using a plain tool that they have this cross section can be exported as SVG or PDF with more information about the building structure never true Pro align tools if you want to work efficiently this Pro align tool can be used to align multiple objects to any surface you can use its guide feature to preview the final position of your objects and even adjust that before you confirm your action you can use it to stack objects on top of each other and for architects who want Precision you get information about how much you have moved the object there are so many features I cannot include them all here number three blender home builder if you are an interior designer home builder is an add-on you should not miss out it started as a blender fork and now it's a standard been a plugin that comes with hundreds of assets you can use in blender for interior design you can use the add-on to even create manufacturing data for things like kitchen countertops and furniture and the dimension is free to download [Music] number four quick Arch if you want a faster way to make rooms with doors windows and more quick Ash really speeds things up you can change the position of the doors windows even after adding them you can change the flip direction of the door the design of the door and more parameters is simply the best non-destructive way to make rooms you can add a balcon against its position length width and more the addon also comes with custom objects you can use to dress up the interior like Furniture pictures and more [Music] number five construction lines in architecture you have to make exact movements rotations and skills this construction lines card modeling iron for blender is what will give you that exactness you can draw meshes depending on blueprint scans easily create bevel profiles and curves and measure distances and more [Music] number six interior Essentials you can present empty rooms to clients they will always want to see how the room will look vanished and modeling everything takes too much time leverage over 600 professionally made models for actress from furniture cuttings decorations ceiling lights and more this addon comes with its own asset management system whole flow that makes it easy for you to import assets into your scene it has other tools like this painter feature that easily lets you scatter objects or vegetation into your scene number seven perspective plotter if you have image reference of what you want to make perspective plotter will match camera angle perspective lens type and more to make it easy for you to model your scene you can easily adjust the camera to the reference using control points that you can align with buildings to get a better match [Music] number eight angle 2 you don't have to be an Arctic to take advantage of this tool but for Architects it's a Time Saver extruding around corners or even sharp Corners is tricky in blender they always end up squashed and do not look correct this angle tool can do the hard part of extruding corners for you automatically just use the angle radius and angle and a tool will take over [Music] number nine physical Starlight and atmosphere for exterior Arenas you may want to show off your design in different lighting conditions visco Starlight and atmosphere provides a presidio and natural way for you you have total control over how your Sky clouds atmosphere and more look the add-on can also provide a great ambient lighting for interior scenes number 10 juice cutter yes cutter is one of those add-ons that fits any industry VFX artists can use it to add detail to their scene and Architects can use it to create beautiful landscapes for their exterior renders it comes with hundreds of assets and is biome scatter feature is the most popular among Planet artists [Music] number 11 materialic material Library Interiors come with different shapes and looks so do exteriors don't use basic materials when producing high-end architectural visualization complete the professional look that will get you repeat clients using the matriaric library which comes with hundreds of hyper realistic materials designed by Architects for architects [Music] number 12 we have Global lighting textures you agree with renders should feel real and inviting to achieve this and make trick is to add animated Gobles that will add a warm feeling to your interiors and exterior shots as Shadows are scattered and casted on two different surfaces of your render 13 We have tree and vegetation whether you are making Interiors or exterior shorts for your activities renders having no vegetation or plants in your renders is going to make Uranus feel incomplete easily add the missing touch using vegetation's library of plants and trees from small plants to light plants that will give your renders a natural warm feel [Music] number 14 we have water Library apart you will only see what a detail like this in high paid Architects rules because water assets like this are not easy to create or easy to find but if you use blender this water library has all you could need for Access visualization their assets are light yet come with the level of detail you only find in high-end renders thank you for watching thus some add-ons I could find for architects see you in the next video that will be hopefully about making Footprints using geometry nodes

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Length: 6min 21sec (381 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 17 2023