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ArchVizr is an AI architectural rendering tool for architects and developers. Users upload exports from SketchUp, Revit, or CAD and can receive photorealistic architectural renderings in as fast as about 20 seconds, with the first image free and no credit card required. It supports sketch rendering, facade rendering, interior rendering, landscape rendering, and photorealistic rendering, and can batch-generate on the same drawing a complete set of images with the same materials, same camera, and same lighting logic, suitable for client presentations, planning approval submissions, and competition boards. The materials show that it does not move windows, does not alter massing, floor count, or roofline, and keeps camera position and framing unchanged; it can transfer style from reference images and set sun angle, season, and interior lighting per frame. The usage method is three steps: export an existing view, describe materials and time of day in text, and download the full set of images. It offers two modes, Fast and Best, and also includes AI-rendered video, 2K/4K upscaling, and full-resolution downloads, with annual subscriptions or render credit packs.

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Purpose and Positioning

ArchVizr is positioned as an AI architectural rendering tool for architects and developers. Its core purpose is to turn already existing design drawings or model views into photorealistic architectural renderings, serving architecture and development teams that need client presentations, planning approval submissions, competition boards, and sales presentations.

Main Capabilities

  • Sketch rendering: Hand-drawn sketches, hidden-line exports, or massing screenshots can be returned as photorealistic images, with windows and camera position kept in their original drawn positions.
  • Facade rendering: Different material expressions such as brick, weathering steel, cedar, or white plaster can be tried on the same facade.
  • Photorealistic rendering: Supports relighting the same building, for example golden hour for client presentations or overcast lighting for planning documents, without redrawing.
  • Landscape rendering: Includes planting, paving, and boundary treatment around the building, making the landscape rendering read as a place rather than a plot.
  • Interior rendering: Extends exterior color schemes into the interior, so lobbies, atriums, and show units can remain consistent with the facade.
  • Set consistency: The materials emphasize that most AI rendering tools optimize a single image, while ArchVizr optimizes a set of images; the same drawing can generate multiple frames of mutually consistent renderings, and one brief requires no intermediate redrawing.
  • Geometry preservation: The model reads the drawing as structure rather than as a source of inspiration, adding only materials and lighting, not moving windows, and preserving massing, floor count, and roofline, with camera position and framing unchanged.
  • Style transfer: Photos or mood boards can be dragged in, and the render extracts the color scheme from them, including watercolor architectural rendering styles for competition boards; it can maintain one house style across an entire submission.
  • Lighting control: Golden hour, overcast, and blue hour can be switched on the same geometry, with sun angle and season set per frame, and interior lights can be turned on for night scenes.
  • Real site: Season and plant maturity can be set per frame, and ground treatment can be extended across the whole image set for planning committee presentation scenarios.
  • Rendered video and upscaling: Paid plans include AI-rendered video, full-resolution downloads, and unlimited 2K and 4K upscaling.

Usage Method

The three-step process given in the materials is:

  1. Export an existing view: Export a hidden-line view from SketchUp, a facade from Revit, a screenshot from Rhino, or a sketch on tracing paper.
  2. Describe materials and time of day: Name the materials, season, and time, for example "fair-faced concrete, golden hour" forms a complete task description.
  3. Download the full set of images: Fast mode completes the first frame in about 20 seconds; Best mode takes about two minutes to get more detail. More views of the same drawing will keep the same materials and lighting.

No plugins, no CAD license, and the drawing still belongs to the user's design. The first rendering is free and does not require a credit card.

Applicable scenarios

Suitable for architectural communication scenarios that require multiple views and consistency among them, such as client presentations, planning approval materials, competition boards, and sales displays. The materials list six categories of users with deadlines, but do not provide a specific user list or the body of the introduction.

Limitations and billing notes

  • The materials state that rendering does not change the architecture: it does not move masses, windows, or cameras, and only adds materials and lighting.
  • The materials say that Fast mode takes about 20 seconds for the first frame, while Best mode takes close to two minutes; the first image is free.
  • Paid plans are billed annually, can be canceled at any time, and can also be purchased as credit packs for a single competition deadline:
    • $179.94/year: 4 AI render generations, AI sketch-to-render, AI interior rendering, AI facade rendering, AI landscape rendering, 24/7 email support.
    • $359.94/year: 100 AI render generations, 50 Pro AI render generations, AI render videos, full access to all AI rendering tools, full-resolution downloads, unlimited 2K and 4K upscaling.
    • $599.94/year: 300 AI render generations, 150 Pro AI render generations.
    • The materials also list tiers for 1,000 AI render generations and 500 Pro AI render generations, but the corresponding prices are not specified.
  • Regarding what can be uploaded, whether plugins or a CAD license are required, the time required for a single rendering, multi-view consistency, whether the resolution is sufficient for printing, whether it is sufficient for planning approval, and whether there is a free option, the materials list these only as Q&A headings, and the specific answers have not yet been provided.

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