How do I render an ArtiCAD plan in Blender™?

How do I render an ArtiCAD plan in Blender™?

First ensure that you are running Version 23 of the software. Once you have created a Blender Render in ArtiCAD, it will create a blend.file that can be opened in Blender.

For guidance on how to create a Blender Render in ArtiCAD, please click here.

To access this:

1. Go to the C:Drive or the location where ArtiCAD is stored on your machine.

2. Go into the ArtiCAD folder, into the relevant room system folder, plans folder and then the Blender folder.

3. Within that folder, you will see another folder which has the name of the plan, the date and time of when you created the export. Go in to that folder, here you will find the blend.file that can then be opened in Blender.

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