Veras vs. DIALux

Veras, now powered by GPT-6 Astra, lands your photos, sketches, and renders as editable 3D models. Veras is Chaos's AI rendering software for architects, interior designers, and landscape architects. It turns sketches, 2D images, and 3D models into photorealistic renders and animations, directly inside Revit, SketchUp, Rhino, Archicad, Vectorworks, Autodesk Forma, and AllPlan, or through the Veras web app. Generate concepts in seconds, then convert AI renders back into real, scaled 3D geometry inside your BIM or CAD model, no exporting, no app-switching. in Revit, SketchUp, and Rhino.

DIALux is the world’s leading software platform for professional lighting design, calculation, and visualization, trusted by over 750,000 users worldwide. Developed by DIAL, a company based in Lüdenscheid, Germany, DIALux has set the industry standard since its launch in 1994, serving lighting designers, architects, engineers, and planners in more than 26 languages and across a wide range of project types. At its core, DIALux simplifies the entire lighting design process for both indoor and outdoor environments.