Product Updates: November 2024
What's in this post?
Happy Thanksgiving! We hope you're enjoying the holiday season.
We at Snaptrude are thankful this Thanksgiving for our amazing team, who tirelessly work to push the boundaries of design technology. Their passion and dedication fuel our mission to create an all-in-one design authoring solution on the cloud.
We're taking significant strides towards realizing this vision, and we're excited to share our latest advancements with you. Together, we're shaping the future of design, making it more efficient, collaborative, and sustainable.
AI Render: Model Based Visualization in Seconds
We recently released AI Render, one of our most anticipated features!
The Challenge: Creating high-quality renders can be time-consuming and requires specialized software.
What's New: Generate model based renders from massing, detailed and interior models.
Key Benefits:
- Generate realistic or artistic renders in just 20 seconds.
- Choose from presets or use custom prompts to tailor your renders.
- Achieve unmatched geometry and material fidelity in your renders.
- Save and access renders directly within Snaptrude.
Sunlight Analysis: Informed Early Design Decisions
The Challenge: Understanding environmental impact during early design stages typically requires complex plugins, and is time consuming.
What's New: Integrated sun hours and illumination analysis for both masses and BIM models.
Key Benefits:
- Analyze illuminance and sun hours during blocking and stacking.
- Create compelling presentation materials with environmental data.
- Alternative to complex Grasshopper plugins for illumination analysis.
- Make informed decisions about facade design.
Workflow Improvements
Object Selection: Easily select objects that are behind/under others by others using the Tab key.
Improved Copy Tool UI/UX: A more accurate and intuitive copying process with precise input fields, smoother tab navigation, enhanced support for feet-inch units, and smarter modal placement.