*NEW RELEASE* D5 Render 2.9 – What’s New?

D5 Render is well-established as powerful 3D rendering software designed for architects, interior designers, and landscape planners. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools that streamline the visualization process, making it easier to create stunning, photorealistic renders.

See what's new in D5 Render 2.9

ADVANCED TERRAIN TOOL

Allows users to sculpt realistic landscapes directly within the software. Whether you’re designing smooth plains or rugged hills, the intuitive brush tool offers precise control over shaping and texturing. This feature is perfect for creating diverse natural environments with ease.

PHASING ANIMATION

Simplifies the creation of step-by-step visualizations, making it ideal for architectural presentations and product demonstrations. With pre-designed templates, users can quickly illustrate construction stages or installation processes without complex keyframes.

POST AI ENHANCEMENTS

Upgraded next stage for AI Enhancement, the new Post-AI tool combines advanced image processing with AI Style Transfer. This allows users to enhance lighting, materials, and character details up to 6K resolution, and transform renders into unique styles like watercolor or photorealistic effects.

RANDOM PLACEMENT

The Random Placement feature adds a touch of realism by allowing users to adjust size, rotation, and location parameters for assets. This is particularly useful for creating natural, non-repetitive layouts in scenes.

FPS BOOSTER FOR COMPLEX GEOMETRY

Optimizes performance for intricate meshes and densely populated scenes, ensuring smooth real-time interactions and rendering, even with heavy models.

ENHANCED ASSET MANAGEMENT

The new Asset Info Page makes managing assets easier by providing quick access to thumbnails, properties, and file sizes, streamlining the selection process and enhancing workflow efficiency.

D5 Render 2.9 is a significant update that brings a wealth of new tools and improvements to the table. Whether you’re an architect, designer, or visualization artist, these features are designed to enhance your workflow and help you create stunning, lifelike visuals with ease.

MORE GREAT FEATURES OF D5 RENDER

AI ENHANCEMENT

Artificial intelligence for atmospheric matching and enhancing images improving lighting, textures, and overall realism at the click of a button.

VAST ASSET LIBRARY

With over 14,000 models, materials, and particles, the asset library offers a wide range of customizable options to suit any project.

D5 SCATTER

Allows for quickly creating natural-looking environments, scattering objects like trees, rocks, and other elements randomly across a scene

ULTRA HD TEXTURE

Automatically activate Super Resolution to quadruple the perimeter of the texture and apply it to the model surface for preview. Supports high-resolution textures, making every detail in the render crisp and clear. Run an AI generated texture map to take your renders to the next level at a single click!

SEAMLESS INTEGRATION

Smooth integration with popular design software like Revit, SketchUp, 3ds Max, Rhino, Archicad, Cinema 4D, Blender, and Vectorworks.

D5 LIVE SYNC WITH REVIT
D5 LIVE SYNC WITH RHINO
D5 LIVE SYNC WITH SKETCHUP

USER REVIEWS

Users have been quick to praise the new features in D5 Render 2.9. Here are some highlights from recent reviews:

  • “The new terrain tool is a game-changer. It makes creating realistic landscapes so much easier and more intuitive.”

  • “Phasing Animation has made my presentations so much more dynamic and engaging. It’s a fantastic addition.”

  • “Post-AI enhancements have taken my renders to the next level. The ability to add artistic styles is a huge plus.”

  • “Random Placement has saved me so much time. My scenes look more natural and less repetitive.”

  • “The FPS Booster is a lifesaver for complex projects. Real-time rendering is now smoother than ever.”

Autodesk Revit 2025.1

Time to elevate your BIM experience! Our latest update is packed with innovative features designed to boost productivity and enhance collaboration. Enjoy advanced automation tools, seamless integration, and streamlined workflows. Transform your BIM projects and achieve more in less time.

See what's new in Autodesk Revit 2025

Introducing Revit 2025! This latest release comes packed with innovative features designed to enhance your design process and boost productivity. Key highlights include the Toposolid enhancement for intuitive terrain manipulation, advanced automation tools to streamline workflows, improved collaboration capabilities, and seamless integration with other design tools. Experience the future of BIM with Revit 2025, where every feature is crafted to help you create, analyze, and visualize your projects more efficiently and accurately than ever before.

TOPOSOLID ENHANCEMENTS

Discover the groundbreaking Toposolid enhancement in Revit 2025! This feature allows intuitive and flexible manipulation of terrain surfaces, improving accuracy and efficiency in site designs. Seamlessly integrate terrain data with other project elements for a cohesive and accurate model. Experience the future of topography in Revit 2025!
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  • Excavate a Toposolid with an intersecting roof, floor, Shaft or other toposolid component.
  • Host elements to excavated Toposolid surfaces
  • Create from a Mass Face
  • XYZ Snapping – If selected and the mouse hovers over a place that is not a reference object, the elevation follows the “Along surface” behaviour
  • Smooth Shading
  • Contours Display while editing
  • Suppression of folding lines while editing
  • Linked Topography improvements

ALIGN MULTIPLE

Align and distribute multiple keynotes, text notes, and tags effortlessly with the new Multiple Align Panel in Revit 2025. This powerful tool allows you to organize your annotations with precision, ensuring a clean and professional presentation of your drawings. The Multiple Align Panel simplifies the process, saving you time and reducing the risk of errors, so you can focus on creating high-quality designs.
Multiple Align
Align and distribute multiple keynotes, text notes and tags using the new Multiple Align Panel.

ARRAY UPDATE

Arrays
For the Modellers out there, the arrays update is a HUGE improvement. Previously, a family would break when less than two of an arrayed item are present, requiring multiple visibility options and formulas controlling them. Now Arrays are permitted to decrease to 1 or 0, streamlining family creation.

SHEET COLLECTIONS

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Organize your sheets into flexible groupings, allowing duplicate sheet numbers within different collections. New collection parameters added and compatible with view types for further Grouping & Scheduling.

INTERFACE ENHANCEMENTS

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  • New Home Screen – Improved ACC Navigation, view filtering, and History Data Panel.
  • Project Browser Search – Improved the ability to view all the child nodes when the parent node does not contain keywords.
  • Options Bar Removed – Properties relocated to either Properties Palette or Ribbon for enhanced efficiency.
  • Material Browser enhanced for
  1. Batch Add/Delete Materials
  2. Faster Appearance Previews

BACKGROUND PDF EXPORT

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Export PDFs in the background while continuing to work on your model.

DARK THEME UPDATE

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Dark theme now supports schedules and panel schedules with automatic color adjustments for better readability.

Architextures : Unleashing Creativity!

Architextures is more than just a texture library; it’s a comprehensive solution aimed at boosting creativity, improving efficiency, and fostering collaboration within the design process. A must-have in the toolkit of every architect and designer.

Unlocking Design Potential with Architextures

In the realm of architectural and design projects, the quest for photo-realism and precise material depiction is ever-present. This journey, however, often encounters a roadblock: the acquisition of high-quality textures. Whether it’s the cost, time, or effort involved, the hurdle of finding or creating the right textures can significantly impede creativity.

Enter Architextures – a cutting-edge solution designed to seamlessly integrate into the workflows of architects and designers. With its robust features, Architextures stands out as an indispensable tool for the modern design professional.
Architextures web app allows designers to create custom materials compatible with CAD/BIM software and download their design as a seamless texture, bump map or hatch.

Key Feature 1:

Revit and SketchUp Integration: Effortlessly apply textures and 2D hatches directly onto your models, ensuring a smooth blend with your existing workflow.
Screenshot of the Architextures interface integrated within Revit software, showing a selection of materials including wood and concrete textures.
Screenshot of the Architextures interface integrated within Revit software, showing a selection of materials including wood and concrete textures.

Key Feature 2:

Extensive Texture Library: Gain instant access to a vast collection of ready-to-use, high-quality textures that will elevate your designs.
User interface of Architextures for Revit displaying a selection of materials categorized by type, such as Wood, Stone, and Concrete.
Extensive Texture Library: Gain instant access to a vast collection of ready-to-use, high-quality textures that will elevate your designs.

Key Feature 3:

Custom Textures: Upload your own images to create unique textures, adding a personal touch to your projects.
Material selection interface showing options for Solid Fill (Tint), Upload function, and custom uploaded materials like black marquina and two shades of beamwood oak.
Custom Textures: Upload your own images to create unique textures, adding a personal touch to your projects.

Key Feature 4:

Team Collaboration: Build and share a texture library with your team, enhancing collaboration and ensuring consistency across projects.
A detailed view of the texture customization panel in Architextures with options for texture type, pattern layout, material properties, and sharing features.
Interface of Architextures showing a 'Collections' page with options to create new collections and previews of existing projects like 'Cafe Project' and 'Apartment Project 1'.
Team Collaboration: Build and share a texture library with your team, enhancing collaboration and ensuring consistency across projects.

Key Feature 5:

Dynamic Tools: Transform images into tiles, paving, and more with a single click. Automatically generate essential maps like hatches, bump maps, and normal maps for any uploaded texture. Additionally, adjust finishes, edges, profiles, and add multiple materials to a pattern with ease.
The interface of Architextures in Revit showing an alternating fish scale pattern of ash and black marble textures with editing tools for customization.
Interface showcasing a selection of masonry patterns available in Architextures against a background of black marquina marble texture.
Resize or adjust finishes, edges and profiles and Add multiple materials to a pattern
Comparison of a colorful fish scale texture pattern above and its corresponding black and white hatch pattern below in a design software interface.
Hatch automatically generates for patterned textures.

Architextures is more than just a texture library

Architextures is more than just a texture library; it’s a comprehensive solution aimed at boosting creativity, improving efficiency, and fostering collaboration within the design process. With Architextures, designers are equipped to unlock their full potential, making it a must-have in the toolkit of every architect and designer.