THE PATH TILL NOW ..

To everyone who has already subscribed, and has been following our journey via discovery calls & LinkedIn .. I want to say thank you. We’ve been hard at work for the better part of 5 months and are really proud to share where we’re at in the R&D journey, but I’ll save that update for next week.

This week, I’d like to share how this tool came to fruition as well as what we hope to accomplish.

HOW IT STARTED ..

Being in the development & home building industry, I was forced to wait 4 weeks for my 3D Rendering. This seemed excessive.

I have my 2D floor plans, how long could it take?!

As I waited & waited, I decided to peak behind the curtains and try to understand the reasoning behind the long wait time.

What I found was interesting .. for starters, architects either do this in-house or out-source the production of the renders. Ok, cool.

Next thing to understand was the process, which is as follows; the 2D CAD file has to first be 3D Modelled, then this 3D Model is “rendered” (turned life-like & realistic).

What I found most interesting was that this process itself does not take 4 weeks, but instead their was a bottleneck in the industry...

Rendering companies seemed to have either way too many clients, or were spending too much time on one of the steps…

Through many conversations I found that creating the 3D Model from a DWG file is tedious & time consuming….

Around the same time was when generative ai was really hitting the mainstream, and I was seeing it create hyper realistic properties & environments that were typically reserved for powerful programs ..

I wondered, if we could automate the 2D to 3D Modelling process …

And utilize this new generative Ai …

Could we speed up this 2D DWG → 3D Model → Render process down from months to minutes?

This is how a frustrating 4 week timeline led to the creation of AutoRender Ai .

OUR GOAL

Our goal at the moment is to have a great closed launch for our Beta version of AutoRender Ai to a group of architects that will use the tool & provide honest feedback (if you’re reading this newsletter, I’m talking about you).

Ultimately, AutoRender Ai’s goal is to transform the rendering workflow for the residential architect.

No more spending dozens of hours doing it yourself, or having to out-source, losing control, having multiple back and forths AND making your client wait weeks …

You’ll be able to simply input your 2D DWG file, get the base 3D Model, choose the angle you’d like the renderings to be “shot” from, & click render.

Then voila, out comes your ACCURATE, IMMEDIATE, 3D RENDERS of the property. 

I don’t want to say too much, but we also hope to incorporate a post render edit option to easily make tweaks & edits using simple text prompts… but shh, still building.

EXPECTATIONS MOVING FORWARD..

Again - if you’ve read this far, thank you.

Expectations of us: moving forward, we’ll be sending a weekly update on our progress as we approach the the closed launch of our Beta version.

Expectations of you: we’re building this tool for you, the architect. All we can ask are the following. One - share this within the architectural community! Two - when we launch V1, test the tool & give us honest feedback!

Till Next Week,
-The team at AutoRender Ai