Fast energy modeling simulation
Quickly calculate and evaluate key metrics as you design. See the data manifested within the render, making it easier to comprehend and communicate the impact of design decisions.
Enscape Impact, developed in partnership with global climate tech company IES, is a brand-new add-on designed to seamlessly integrate real-time rendering with building performance metrics. It empowers you to optimize building performance and sustainability directly within your workflow to enhance your creative vision.
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Quickly calculate and evaluate key metrics as you design. See the data manifested within the render, making it easier to comprehend and communicate the impact of design decisions.
Perform analysis directly within your workflow to determine the energy efficiency and sustainability of designs early in the process. Enscape Impact directly integrates with most popular CAD and BIM tools, allowing you to maintain creative flow without interruption.
Establish a baseline analysis with only a few data points, including location and building type, to access fast and actionable insights.
Showcase the energy performance of your building design with easy-to-read charts and diagrams that intuitively display how geometry adjustments impact performance. Comprehensive tooltips provide easy-to-understand guidance for beginners in building performance concepts.
With a shallow learning curve, Enscape Impact enables you to prepare and run a dynamic simulation effortlessly, even without extensive training.
Fast energy analysis provides immediate insights into building performance impact, facilitating quicker decision-making.
Through a shorter and quicker feedback loop and efficient early-stage design corrections, carbon emissions, and project timelines can be reduced, as can design costs.
Designed to help architects and engineers communicate effectively, ensuring designs are both sustainable and more efficient.
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Reports the highest level of energy consumption by heating and cooling systems that analysis suggests will be experienced in this project each year.
Buildings account for almost 40% of global energy-related carbon emissions. Forecast your building’s energy consumption and assess the key-performance metrics of your building, with fast and easy energy modeling simulations.
Enscape Impact allows you to perform early-stage design optimization and shortens the feedback loop, leading to buildings which are more energy efficient and cost-effective to build.
You can adjust your design, and analyze a building's performance without leaving your design environment, giving you immediate feedback on Peak Loads, Total Operational Carbon Emissions, Energy End Use, Energy Use Intensity, and more.
Unlike standalone building analysis tools or traditional CAD software without integrated analytics, Enscape Impact lets you make data-driven decisions quickly, enhancing both the aesthetic and functional quality of buildings while ensuring cost-effectiveness and energy efficiency.
Tutorial
Learn to create visually stunning designs that are also energy efficient and more sustainable with this tutorial series.
Click the Enscape Impact button on the Enscape toolbar to get started. Follow the tooltip pop-ups that appear over each metric for guidance.
Generate baseline analysis by inputting data such as the location, building type, and construction year.
Modify and benchmark data and see the results in real time. The results are integrated into the Enscape render.
Learn more at the Chaos Academy. Get started with Enscape Impact.
Enscape Impact is fully compatible with major CAD and BIM software tools, such as Revit, SketchUp, Archicad, Rhino, and Vectorworks. The building energy modeling tool transforms architectural design by embedding energy analysis directly into the visualization process. Currently available for Windows
with the purchase of any Chaos license.
Enscape Impact is also included in the ArchDesign Collection
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Enscape Impact now helps architects understand how comfortable their spaces will feel right from the concept stage. Thermal comfort conditions are visualized directly within the model, revealing how factors like temperature, glazing, and airflow influence occupant experience. This makes it easier to design sustainable, comfortable environments without relying on complex analysis tools.
You can now export detailed performance summaries straight from Enscape Impact. These reports make it simple to share results with clients or colleagues, compare design options, and document sustainability decisions—all within your design workflow.