Autodesk Cloud Rendering : Revit Rendering made simple and fast!

To start, download the Autodesk Cloud Rendering Add-In for Revit 2012 which can be accessed upon logging in at Autodesk's Cloud Rendering webpage:

http://rendering.cloud.autodesk.com

Once installed, open the project you would like to render out of, and click the Online ribbon button. From there, you will find the option to "Render in Cloud," select this.

Find the view you would like to render and modify the limited selection of options as necessary.

The upload, surprisingly, takes less than a minute before Autodesk's cloud computers get to work. You can monitor the progress by going back to the Autodesk's Cloud Rendering Webpage.

http://rendering.cloud.autodesk.com/mygallery.aspx

After what had initially taken 36 hours on our dedicated rendering computer was done in less than 2 hours.

Self illuminated materials will not render nor will RPC objects that were not part of the Revit release.

From what I understand, Cloud Rendering is only available to Autodesk Design Suite Subscription based customers and there may, or may not, be a limit on how many renderings each license is good for.

I should also note that I had turned on all of the lights in the project for the cloud rendering, alternatively, for the internal rendering I did, I only had a limited selection of lights on. Crazy.

There is also an option to do a panoramic rendering which I am looking forward to trying out next..