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.

Revit and Sketchup with Twinmotion

Most design studios with a moderately large team will use multiple platforms to meet project deadlines.
SketchUp and Autodesk Revit is one such combination.

Most design studios with a moderately large team will use multiple platforms to meet project deadlines.
SketchUp and Autodesk Revit is one such combination.
Using Twinmotion as their visualization platform, multiple models are combined to create amazing renders, animations and Virtual Reality (VR) experiences.

We have prepared 3 short Tutorials showing how to work with Sketchup and Revit, in Twinmotion.
We review issues when linking multiple files into Twinmotion.
There are two ways of linking Sketchup files to Twinmotion
And two ways to link Revit Model files to Twinmotion.

Understanding how this works may save time spent on rework.

NOTE: Twinmotion can only “Directlink” from one platform (current version)

If the main “Directlink” model is Revit, Sketchup models must be imported (Twinmotion Import Sketchup Models directly)

If the main “Directlink” model is Sketchup, then the Revit Model will be exported (from the Twinmotion tool ribbon in Revit) as an FBX model and imported into Twinmotion.

In the third video we show what happens to Linked and imported Sketchup and Revit files in Revit Project file and how these models behave when linked into Twinmotion.

Understanding Internal Origin locations of each platform will help speed up reloading different design options and design location adjustments.

The other issue covered is the level of the terrain model in Twinmotion. The Sketchup and Revit internal origins are coincident. The Twinmotion terrain is slightly lower, select the terrain model and adjust.

It’s a lot of fun working in Twinmotion. Hope all this helps.

PART 1: Sketchup with Twinmotion: Linking Sketchup files to Twinmotion

The two ways of linking Sketchup files to Twinmotion. 1. Directlink Method 2. Importing Method Two tips: Origins and Adjusting Terrain Levels 

PART 2: Revit with Twinmotion: Linking Revit files to Twinmotion

The two ways of linking Revit files to Twinmotion. 1. Directlink Method 2. Export FBX and Import Method Two tips: Origins and Adjusting Terrain Levels

PART 3: Revit, Sketchup with Twinmotion: Issues to Anticipate

Issues to Anticipate 1. Linked Revit Files 2. Linked Sketchup Files in Revit 3. Imported Sketchup Files in Revit