Architectural visualization is a large topic, which alone is the focus of many books that are available today. We will have an overview of ArchiCAD's visualization capabilities in order for you to have a basic understanding of them. You can learn more about this subject from various online resources and publications. There are video tutorials available at https://www.youtube.com/user/Archicad about rendering with ArchiCAD.
Rendered views of a proposed building have been important tools for centuries to communicate the design to clients and users. The process of translating the designer's ideas into visual representations is an important early step toward realizing a building. It can secure support for the project or stop it altogether. It requires skills that were traditionally related to hand drawing and painting. Good visualization is based on considering viewpoints, colors, light, shapes, and other basic graphic concepts.
In past decades, the...