You can install more versions if you want.

Select Components - select the plugin version according to your ARCHICAD version. Make sure you remember this folder because later you have to register the installed plugin files inside the ARCHICAD Add-On Manager. You can choose the default location, or you can select your own. Select Destination Locaton - browse for the destination location of the plugin. In case you still have older plugin files inside the ARCHICAD Add-Ons folder, please remove them! Installation on WindowsĪfter the Welcome screen of the installer click on the button Next It copies the files into a Maxwell for ARCHICAD folder by default (it can copy into Add-Ons folder too, but we recommend to choose different folder), and in the last step the user has to make ARCHICAD (via Add-In Manager) to register the plugin files. That function has saved my loved plenty of times when I've left a render to run overnight only to wake up and find the computer crashed after it was done or it updated and restarted or something crazy like that.In the previous versions of the plugin, it was OK to just copy the plugin files into the ARCHICAD Add-Ons folder. Thank you for adding the autosave on render completion function or button (at least that's what I think it is).

Still testing it and will update with any other issues that come up.Ĭurrently testing on ArchiCAD version 23.

If it was possible to stretch it while maintaining the current 3D window aspect ratio so as not to distort things and have the render space adjust accordingly, it would be great. Some people prefer to be able to stretch the window itself manually, but I've always found that a bit awkward as it distorts the aspect ratio. I understand that adjusting the image size with the interactive renderer, you have to enter the values manually, but it would be great if there was a button to tell it to get the values either from the current open 3D window size or directly from the Render Settings dialog (Which already has such a button).

Obviously this is critical in knowing how the material looks like when you make changes. I second the issue found with the preview window not showing anything in the Surface settings dialog and just showing black.

Rendering for archicad