Virtual Reality

[Mrs CFS]

Hello

 

I’ve recently been watching the new TV show on BBC ‘Your Home Made Perfect’ and was really impressed by the VR aspect.

 

 I wondered if anyone has used an architect company that’s using VR to help with the visualization of the end result? And if so would you recommend?

 

We have submitted our plans for planning permission and before we start the build i’d be really keen to get an idea of the physical space internally to make sure we’ve covered everything.

 

thanks in advance

Chloe

[Pete]

Our timber frame manufacturer did something similar for our build but it was not as good as we expected. 

[Jeremy Harris]

My wife struggled to visualise the internal spaces, too, so I opted to make a model, at 1:50 scale so that I could use plastic modelling figures to give a sense of proportion:

 

[Nick1c]

Not really VR, but our architect uses a programme called BimX which allows you to fly around the building (once you get the hang of controlling it!) and get different internal & external views. I have an old iPad & it even works on that. 

[Mr Punter]

It would be really useful if someone did an on line 3d print service for house models from autocad.

[Jeremy Harris]

6 minutes ago, Mr Punter said:

It would be really useful if someone did an on line 3d print service for house models from autocad.

 

Funnily enough I was thinking about this earlier today.  I was looking at a 3D print of a mountain range and thinking that it should be relatively easy to convert a topographic plan plus a house design into a 3D model that could be printed.

[RandAbuild]

Our stair people set up a VR demo in our living room, to show us what the stairs would look and feel like. The results were very impressive.

 

After the stairs were in, they also took thousands of photos to build up a 3D view - results are here: http://woodenstairs.co.uk/testimonials/richard-northampton/

 

[Ferdinand]

39 minutes ago, JSHarris said:

 

Funnily enough I was thinking about this earlier today.  I was looking at a 3D print of a mountain range and thinking that it should be relatively easy to convert a topographic plan plus a house design into a 3D model that could be printed.

 

I might have thought rent a LIDAR for that - it seems to be what the Archaeological TV programmes use now for their Whizz-Bang element , and should be relatively cheap.

 

I like the 3d presentation of the stairs, though (on the subject of 3d visualisations) I see that Richard of Northampton had one of his head displayed in the Norwich Museum. I hope you are better now, after all those years in that car park .

 

Ferdinand

 

Edited May 6, 2019 by Ferdinand

[Jeremy Harris]

8 minutes ago, Ferdinand said:

 

I might have thought rent a LIDAR for that - it seems to be what the Archaeological TV programmes use now for their Whizz-Bang element , and should be relatively cheap.

 

Ferdinand

 

 

LIDAR data is available from DEFRA to 250mm resolution: https://data.gov.uk/dataset/8b007edd-a886-44ca-9fa0-2ee2efc1248d/lidar-composite-dsm-25cm

[Ferdinand]

6 minutes ago, JSHarris said:

 

LIDAR data is available from DEFRA to 250mm resolution: https://data.gov.uk/dataset/8b007edd-a886-44ca-9fa0-2ee2efc1248d/lidar-composite-dsm-25cm

 

That looks to be doable, but why are we not being charged for it? What happened?

[the_r_sole]

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[the_r_sole]

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[Ed Davies]

I played with walk throughs a bit in SketchUp for early versions of my house design. I can't say I found them terribly useful and I didn't bother by the time I was converging on the final design. Maybe if you're trying to understand somebody else's design it would be more useful. Dunno.

 

3D modelling of construction aspects, on the other hand, was very useful to make sure I understood the structural engineer's drawings.

[lizzie]

I had some walk throughs on my kitchen they were great - house was not built and it was the first look inside the house.