Render a House

Black and white drawing of an office lobby before rendering

Photorealistic render of the same office lobby

Revit rendering software

Render your Revit viewin the browser.

Export a raster view, or an FBX you convert to GLB. Upload it, describe the scene, and a photorealistic image comes back in seconds. It runs on a Mac, where Revit itself has no build at all.

Free to start. No card needed.

PNG, JPG, WebP views
GLB, GLTF, OBJ models
Runs on Mac

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Your model, not a lookalike.

The engine reads the view you exported and keeps it: massing, floor levels, window and door openings, facade rhythm, proportions. It fills in only what the BIM model never held — material weathering, real daylight, planting, and the street the building sits on.

Photorealistic render of the same street elevation

Revit viewRender

Drag the line to see the source underneath the render

The same project, drawn and rendered.

Drag any pair. Each is one project shown twice, as a drawing and as a render, so you can line the geometry up yourself across twenty-five of them rather than one.

Drag the line to see the source underneath the render

Drawings and renders produced with Render a House. Drag any pair to compare.

Change the material, keep the building.

Same exported view, four finishes. Testing a facade material this way costs a sentence, where in the model it costs a material, a type and a regenerated view.

Timber

Material

What to export from Revit.

Render a House does not open .rvt files, and Revit does not write GLB, GLTF or OBJ either. Its File > Export menu writes DWG, DXF, DGN, SAT, DWF, IFC, gbXML, NWC and FBX, among others. Two routes still get you there — one through FBX and a conversion step, one through a plain image.

What you export	How to get it out of Revit	What it is good for
GLB (via FBX)	Prepare a 3D view, then File > Export > FBX. Revit writes the mesh and the material assignments into the file. Open it in a free tool such as Blender and export GLB.	The most complete geometry path — worth the extra step when massing, openings and roof geometry all need to hold.
OBJ (via FBX)	Same starting point — File > Export > FBX — then export OBJ from the converter instead of GLB. Keep the companion material file next to it.	A plain, widely readable mesh when GLB is not what the rest of your pipeline expects.
PNG or JPEG view	File tab > Export > Images and Animations (Image). Choose PNG or JPEG and set the pixel width.	The fastest route, with no conversion step. One clean, tightly cropped 3D view is enough.

Export steps are Autodesk's own, from the Revit help articles on exporting FBX files and on Images and Animations, and from Autodesk's published list of Revit export formats.

Everything you can do.

Nine things you can do with one Revit export, without opening another application.

Render

Photorealistic, from your exported view or model.

Edit and adjust

Change materials, furniture, planting and surroundings without redoing the design.

Enhance and upscale

Raise resolution to 4K and sharpen the file for print or a client presentation.

Video and animate

Turn a still into a clip with a camera move, straight from a render you approved.

3D

Place the camera on the exported model and choose the framing before you render.

Image to 3D object

Generate a 3D model from a single image, for a piece the source file never contained.

360 render

A navigable panorama of the project: the client looks around from inside it.

A direct link for the client to open the project. No account, no software, no file transfer.

Pro model

The maximum-fidelity pass, for the image that goes in the final deliverable.

Everything you need, in one platform.

A Revit seat documents a building. Rendering it well usually means Autodesk Raytracer on your own hardware, or a visualisation package and the person who knows it. All of this is here instead, working from an export you can make today.

3D integration

Where the application exports a mesh, upload it and set the camera in the browser, then render from that view.

Rendering

Photorealism in seconds, not a queued calculation you leave running over lunch.

Video

A camera move across the same project, generated from a finished still. Nothing to animate.

Design

Try materials, light and surroundings until the right version exists, without touching the source file.

Refinement

Fix one part of a render — a facade panel, a tree, a sky — without starting the image again.

Precision

Your geometry is respected: the walls, openings, heights and proportions you drew stay put.

Collaborative

Share a link and take comments on the image itself, so feedback lands on the render.

Mobile and web

Runs in the browser, including on a laptop that would struggle with a local render engine.

4K

Delivery resolution, ready to print or put on a board without a separate upscaling step.

Works with designs from other CAD software too.

Export an image or upload the model. There is no plugin to install and no format to learn, so the same workflow runs from Revit and from every other package below.

Trademarks identify the software this works with. Render a House is not affiliated with any of them.

SketchUp rendering

GLB (GLTF Binary) and more, from SketchUp.

Archicad rendering

OBJ (WaveFront) and more, from Archicad.

Rhino rendering

GLB (GLTF Binary) and more, from Rhino.

AutoCAD rendering

PNG or JPEG from a 2D view and more, from AutoCAD.

Vectorworks rendering

OBJ and more, from Vectorworks.

Chief Architect rendering

PNG from a 3D camera view and more, from Chief Architect.

Who this is for.

If you document in Revit and present to clients or a planning committee, this replaces the slowest and most expensive part of that loop.

Architecture practices
BIM coordinators
Developers
Planning consultants
Interior designers
Design-build firms

958,000 renders generated so far.

128,000 architects and designers have an account.

A first render takes about ten seconds.

Available worldwide, in the browser, with nothing to install into Revit.

Counts are extrapolated from a measured baseline and tick live.

Pricing.

Try it out, go Pro when it starts paying for itself.

Free

Try it out, no credit card required

Freeforever

3 credits per day
Standard model

Start for free

	Pro 240 credits	Studio 1000 credits
Render Pro 2 credits each	120	500
Render Standard 1 credit each	240	1000
Render Standard 2K 1.5 credits each	160	666
Render Pro 4K 4 credits each	60	250
Render Standard 4K 2 credits each	120	500
Video 0.8 credits/sec	300s	1250s

What this cannot do.

Open a .rvt file. Export a view as an image, or an FBX you convert first — there is no direct Revit import.
Produce construction documents, BIM data, or anything dimensionally reliable.
Guarantee every detail survives. Thin mullions, small hardware and text on signage are the usual casualties.
Inherit the camera you set. The model carries no usable one, so you frame the shot in the 3D view after uploading.
Replace Autodesk Raytracer when a client is paying for a final image in the exact materials the model specifies.

Common questions about Revit rendering.

Can Render a House open a Revit .rvt file?

No. Export first. File tab > Export > Images and Animations writes a PNG or JPEG of a view, and File > Export > FBX writes a mesh you can convert to GLB or OBJ in a free tool such as Blender. Revit itself does not write GLB, GLTF or OBJ.

Does Revit export GLB or OBJ?

No. Autodesk's published export list for Revit is DWG, DXF, DGN, SAT, DWF and DWFx, ADSK, FBX, NWC, gbXML, IFC and ODBC. FBX is the one that converts cleanly, and the conversion happens outside Autodesk's tools.

Do I need a plugin or an add-in for Revit?

No. Nothing is installed into Revit. You export a file the way you already would, then upload it in a browser, so the workflow is unaffected by your Revit version or add-in set.

Can I render a Revit model on a Mac?

Yes, because the rendering does not happen in Revit. Revit has no Mac build, so the usual route is Parallels or a Windows machine. Once a view is exported as an image, this runs in any browser on any operating system.

How is this different from Autodesk Raytracer?

Autodesk Raytracer is Revit's own physically based engine, rendering the model with the materials you assigned, on your hardware. This works from an export and is directed with a written description. Raytracer gives more control over an exact specification; this gets to a presentable image sooner and lets you try more directions per hour.

Do I need a graphics card to render a Revit view?

No. Rendering runs on hosted hardware. The GPU in your machine drives how Revit navigates a model; Autodesk Raytracer is CPU-only, so your processor is what decides how fast a local render finishes. Neither affects how fast a render comes back here.

Can I use Revit renders in client work?

Yes. Renders you generate are yours to use commercially. Review them first — an AI render is a concept image and should be checked against the model before it stands in for a design decision.

Export the view. Get the render.

Keep Revit as the source of truth for the building. Let this handle the picture of it.

Working on something bigger? Talk to us.

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