My use case is a little different than most. I would be using it more for quickly throwing together concepts for staging, lighting positions, renderings of lighting in use,
speaker deployments,
etc. Not so much event design as space planning and presentation, which ultimately ends up moving over to Revit for construction documentation (
sigh....).
This week for example, I got a conceptual SKP model on Wednesday from an architect for an outdoor amphitheater space and site orientation based on some concepts I sketched out last week. Imported into VW and started throwing lighting positions,
truss, hoists, speakers, and an
orchestra on
stage. Then Thursday afternoon we did a Teams meeting where I showed them what my first impressions were and the implications on event deployment and we talked through how to
address that while I manipulated the staging in VW. They're sending me a revised SKP today and I'll update my VW and spit out some conceptual renderings to show the client on Monday -- which is looking both at architectural lighting concepts as well as rental event lighting possibilities. Seems like fastest way to get from here to there could be
Vision and driving it with my Nomad brick rather than living in tedium setting looks up in VW. It
looks like I might be able to replicate that same goal in Augment3D, but I'm not sure about the quality of renderings or ability to handle architectural light sources.
Nemetschek's in a weird position on how
Vision fits into their pricing plans though. With Autodesk, you get more perks for having the monthly subscription over perpetual licenses, but with Nemeschek, you get 2 free universes of
Vision only if you buy a perpetual license. And there's no monthly subscription equivalent for
Vision as there is to VW. Urrgh. So for monthly VW subscribers, you can pay $1900 for
Vision w/ maintenance, or you can spend twice as much for a perpetual VW license with SS. It'd be nice to be able to be monthly on both because most of my projects are still in Revit and it'd be nice to spin those licenses up only as needed.