Earlier this week, as a member of the Autodesk AEC Bloggers Council, we got a sneak peek at Stingray, a powerful engine that can be used by AEC professionals to make BIM-informed 3D visualizations in 3ds Max fully interactive in a real-time environment. In plain English, it means that building designers using Revit can go anywhere in the BIM model and see everything as you would in the physical world.

Stingray has its origins in 3D gaming software and is built on the Bitsquid engine, which Autodesk acquired last summer.