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Presentation floor plans?

Anonymous — Thu, 11 May 2023 12:31:05 GMT

Well i know i have asked this before but what is the best technique to produce high resolution floors plans to be used in a marketing book? i really would like to have a pen and ink or hand draw sketch feel to them and not photo real renderings. Any ideas?

Re: Presentation floor plans?

Stress Co_ — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:00:05 GMT

Archisketchy

Re: Presentation floor plans?

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:04:43 GMT

that is more what i am looking for! How did you create that, and can you save in a high DPI?

Re: Presentation floor plans?

Stress Co_ — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:15:34 GMT

b.trenga wrote:
How did you create that, and can you save in a high DPI?

Brent:
Click the Archisketchy link in the post above. It's pretty much right "out of the box" (with a bit of messing with settings)
You should be able to download a demo to play with.
I'm not sure about saving in High DPI.... somewhere in "save as" options?

Re: Presentation floor plans?

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:19:49 GMT

this Add-on does not work with 12! that sucks

Re: Presentation floor plans?

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:25:36 GMT

Probably an AC12 version will be coming out soon along with all the other Cigraph Add-Ons. You can ask them by email.
However, I read some guys mentioning that these AC12 Add-Ons will have their own hardware dongles, if that is a concern for you.

Re: Presentation floor plans?

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:27:20 GMT

I seem to recall that there was a way of making a squiggle version of your plans without archisketchy. Something to do with converting lines to squiggled ones.

Can anyone recall or post a how-to?

No problem just done a sesarch and found the answer!

Re: Presentation floor plans?

Dwight — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:20:55 GMT

Explode your plan into lines.
Replace with sketch lines found in default line types.

Re: Presentation floor plans?

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:28:36 GMT

I mean that is really all the Add-on does. plus that way you can control how much wiggle the line has

Re: Presentation floor plans?

Karl Ottenstein — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:33:11 GMT

Dwight wrote:
Explode your plan into lines.
Replace with sketch lines found in default line types.

In the 'old' days, we had to do this explode thing in a temporary file.

A 'new' way of doing this since 11 is to use the Worksheet tool to take a snapshot of your entire plan and explode the elements in the Worksheet, thus leaving your model untouched. When you select all lines, only 'real' lines will be available for change to a sketchy line type. When this old tip first surfaced, we did not have cover fills, so if your slabs use those kinds of fills, the linework in them will not be selectable. Either turn them off via Model View Options, or change the fill in the exploded copy.

There will not be any line overshoots, only squiggly lines with this method.

An outrageously complex way of getting a sketchy plan without add-ons is given in this old tip. But, hey, its free if you have more time than money:

http://www.archicadwiki.com/TechNotes/Sketch%20Rendering%20from%20Floor%20Plan?highlight=%28plan%29%7C%28sketch%29

(I suspect there are easier ways than in the link above now...have not really thought about it since then...)

Cheers,
Karl

Re: Presentation floor plans?

Richard Morrison — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:13:20 GMT

Squiggle software can do this, too. You can google it.