How close does the render stay to my design?

As close as you want. Composition-preserving rendering holds geometry, massing and openings fixed, so the client is looking at your scheme. Loose exploration is there when you want it; it's a choice you make rather than the default.

What do I need to start?

A model export, a viewport screenshot, a CAD drawing, or a decent hand sketch. It starts from what a practice actually has to hand in the middle of a live job, rather than from something you'd have to build first.

Can the client view a walkthrough themselves?

Yes. Publish the scheme to a link and it opens straight in a browser, with no account and no download, on a laptop or a phone. Republish over it as the design moves; the link you already sent keeps working. If they've a headset, the same walk opens in VR. A presentation stops being something the client sits through and turns into something they go poking around in.

Solution

Client presentations.

Renders, film and walkthroughs from the scheme you already drew. Present in a language the client speaks.

Clients don't read elevations. The gap between what an architect sees in a drawing and what a client sees in the same drawing is where projects stall, get value-engineered badly, or lose the argument for the good idea. ArchAdemia Tools turns the work you've already done into something a non-architect can actually judge.

Show them the scheme itself.

Renders

Interior and exterior views from your model or drawings, at the quality a fee proposal is judged against.

Film

Flythroughs and cinematic reveals cut from stills, with sound on them. Enough to carry a presentation on its own.

Walkthroughs

Send a link and the client walks the scheme themselves, in a browser, at their own pace.

Options a client can actually choose between.

Show one render and you're asking for approval or rejection. Show the same room in three material palettes and you're asking for a decision, which is what the meeting was booked for. Variants used to be expensive enough that most practices showed one and hoped, and that made every client meeting harder than it needed to be.

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Options a client can actually choose between

Film without a film crew.

A flythrough cut from your renders, with a score and ambient sound, done the same afternoon as the images. Small practices have historically had none of this, because commissioning a visualiser for a film was a five-figure decision you saved for competition work.

Let them walk through it.

A walk answers the questions a client can't get out of a plan. Does the hall feel mean? Is the kitchen actually big enough, or does it just measure big? Publish the scheme to a link and they'll work through it themselves, on a laptop or a phone, at eleven at night when the question occurs to them. Answering that in the meeting costs a lot less than answering it in a revision.

Boards that hold together.

Presentation boards laid out at real sheet sizes, with the drawings, views and text out of the same project. They hold together because they came from one place, rather than because somebody spent Sunday matching fonts by eye. A site plan or a diagram that needs proper vector precision draws cleanly in Vector and drops straight onto the board.

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What a presentation needs.

Interior and exterior renders

Presentation-quality views from a model, a drawing or a sketch, produced as a consistent set.

Option sets

The same view across materials, palettes, seasons and times of day, so the meeting produces a decision.

Flythrough film

Cinematic video cut from your own renders, with score and ambient sound.

Walkthrough at eye level

A link with no login, so the client moves through the scheme at their own pace, on a laptop or a phone.

Presentation boards

Real sheet sizes and layouts, assembled from the same project rather than rebuilt.

One consistent set

Everything made from one project in one place, so it looks like one practice made it (which it did).

Frequently asked.

On the week-to-week work: design reviews, client updates, an option compared against three others, the images that go into a fee proposal. That is the work most practices either rush themselves at midnight or skip, because commissioning it every time was never proportionate. It holds your composition rather than inventing a better building, so what comes back answers the question you asked of your own scheme.

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Every ArchAdemia Tools plan includes everything on this page. From £29 a month, all in, with no per-tool fees and no surprise charges.

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