Join Paul F. Aubin for an in-depth discussion in this video Understanding cloud rendering, part of Revit: Rendering.
- In this chapter, we're gonna take a look at Autodesk's cloud render service. If you're a subscription customer to your Autodesk software, then you have access to cloud rendering. So what exactly is cloud rendering? Well, cloud rendering is taking advantage of a collection of servers that Autodesk maintains up in the cloud and where you can send your renderings to. So the advantage to this is quite simple. As we've discussed quite a bit, renderings can take a lot of time to generate. This time ties up your computer and you can't really do anything else while you're waiting for a rendering to generate.
So if you off load those renderings into the cloud, then after a few moments, your computer gets freed up and you can continue working on your project while your rendering is being generated on Autodesk cloud servers in the background. They'll send you an email when it's done and then you'll be able to open up the rendering and take a look at the result. Now, cloud rendering is built right into the Revit product so again all you need is access to an Autodesk subscription and you can sign in and use the feature. Now if you've got Revit LT, and you've been following along in this course, then you probably noticed that you weren't able to do really any of the features that we talked about in the last chapter and that's because the render feature built right into the product is actually not available in Revit LT.
However, cloud rendering is. So if you wanna generate renderings from your Revit LT software then this chapter is for you.