Have you tried Showcase yet?
Like Shades of Grey, I’m relatively excited about Showcase:
One of my brightest hopes for Revit 2013 is Showcase, which is a totally separate application. Could this finally be the viewer that works ? I’ve tried Design Review & Navis Works Freedom, Quicktime FBX plugin, Tekla Bimsight … People are doing clever things with Game Engines, but I need a quick and easy way of bringing a lightweight export from the model into meetings.
via
Shades of Grey: BROAD BRUSH & FINE DETAIL
Evidently, you need a pretty decent system to make everything smooth, as Neil Thompson says
@jrostar it eats ram more than revit on full render.
A few links:
Suites Workflow Manager – WikiHelp
Revit Workflows in the Autodesk Building Design Suite – WikiHelp
Installation notes:
I really tried to get Showcase working without installing the whole Building Design Suite, but I haven’t figured it out yet! Here are some of the steps I tried:
- Install Revit, Showcase and Max (separate downloads, not from BDS media)
- Activate all products using a Suite license
- Extract the folder WorkflowInstaller from your extracted Suite archive – Content subfolder.
- Close all Autodesk programs
- Run the file AutodeskBuildingDesignSuiteWorkflows.msi from the appropriate subfolder (x64 or x86)
- Open Revit – Suite Workflows still not visible 🙁
Direct download Showcase 2013 (use this method):
http://trial.autodesk.com/SWDLDDLM/2013/SHOWCASE/ESD/Autodesk_Showcase_2013_Multilingual_Win_64bit.exe
Direct download 3dsMaxDesign 2013 (use this method):
http://trial.autodesk.com/SWDLDDLM/2013/MAXDES/ESD/Autodesk_3ds_Max_Design_2013_EFGKJS_Win_64bit.exe
http://trial.autodesk.com/SWDLDDLM/2013/MAXDES/ESD/Autodesk_3ds_Max_Design_2013_EFGKJS_Win_32bit.exe
AutoCAD Design Suite Standard 2013
http://trial.autodesk.com/SWDLDDLM/2013/DSSTD/ESD/AutoCAD_Design_Suite_Standard_2013_English_Win_32bit.part1.exe
http://trial.autodesk.com/SWDLDDLM/2013/DSSTD/ESD/AutoCAD_Design_Suite_Standard_2013_English_Win_32bit.part2.rar
Some notes about Workflows:
Need to install 3dsMax to make it work:
Revit Workflows in the Autodesk Building Design Suite – WikiHelp
Install Workflows – WikiHelp
BDSP 2013extContentWorkflowInstallerx64
“C:ProgramDataAutodeskWorkflowsProducts.xml”
What is Autodesk DirectConnect? – WikiHelp
"I really tried to get Showcase working without installing the whole Building Design Suite".
Wouldn't have been easier to run the BDS Installer, and just uncheck the things you don't want to install? The BDS installation allows you to choose what parts of the suite you want to install. You don't have to install the entire package if you don't want.
You are quite right. I was trying to get it working BEFORE the official BDS media was fully released – I had installed the individual non-Suite trial packages and was hoping I didn't have to uninstall and reinstall the BDS. But in the end, that is what I had to do.