Is Accurender Needed

[peterm]

My Daughter is using autocad 2007 at TAFE (Techinal College)
It came with Revit building 9.(which I belive has accurender) She is being told by her teacher that she needs to buy Accurender to render her projets.
Is this needed? Autocad comes with rendering.

Cheers
Peterm

[Cad64]

I've never heard of a teacher telling a student that they have to buy an expensive program in order to create their projects. Everything necessary for completing the course should be provided in the classroom.

Autocad has very decent rendering capability, although Accurender does add some nice functionality that Autocad doesn't have and does produce very photo-realistic renders. But I would think that straight Autocad rendering would be more than adequate for classroom projects.

Just take a look through the "Showcase" section of the forum and look at the quality renders produced by some of the members using straight Autocad and you will see for yourself.

[ReMark]

Is a student version of Accurender available? At least the cost would be lower.

[peterm]

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
Thank you for the replies.
The TAFE does supply Accurender on it's computers. However my daughter works full time and is doing her TAFE course part time at night. They say the students can use the computers in the off times mainly 1:00pm - 6:00pm Tuesday. She is at work then so misses out on the off times. The teacher said it is not his problem so if she needs to do work outside TAFE the only option is to buy accurender. The rending that come with Autocad is not good enough for her teacher (the teacher is someone from the design industry and is not a full time teacher) I was hopping there was a cheaper way other then buying accurender as she does not need to use autocad again after this year of TAFE. Do you know if Auotdesk VIZ Superior rendings for AEC users would do the same job? It appears to be a lot cheaper.
Cheers
Peterm

[ReMark]

A single user (student version) of Accurender can be purchased for $195 (U.S.). If you go through an educational discount software retailer you might be able to get it for $150.

[Cad Sponge]

My Daughter is using autocad 2007 at TAFE (Techinal College)
It came with Revit building 9.(which I belive has accurender) She is being told by her teacher that she needs to buy Accurender to render her projets.
Is this needed? Autocad comes with rendering.

Cheers
Peterm


Back when I was in school, I would always tell my parents I needed something to complete my work that I really didn't. Just because I wanted it......They would not even ask me about it twice, just go buy it. Might want to check with her teacher :D

[yedan]

i find it strange that he says the inbuilt render of cad is not good enough, if used well it can produce very good results that rival accurender or any other render package, you just have to know how to use it,

[rustysilo]

That teacher is a joke. If he is going to require a high quality render then the school should provide the software or she should be allowed in to use the schools computers even if another class was in session. I would be having a talk with the teacher. If he maintains this position I would speak to his superior. A student should NOT have to purchase additional supplies in order to complete a class.

[peterm]

Thanks to everyone for the information.
I ended buying a student upgrade.
Cheers
Peter

[PS_Port]

Sorry, I just could not let this one go,
The `teacher' (use this term loosely) says that Autocad render is not good enough, thats a joke.
The only thing not good enough is the `teachers' knowledge of Autocad.:x
I've done commercial quality renders in Acad, and would challenge anyone that says the render inadequate.
Seems to me that this `Teacher' has another agenda.:twisted: