topic Re: I've Lost My Perspective in Visualization

I've Lost My Perspective

Anonymous — Thu, 11 May 2023 11:19:37 GMT

For some reason nothing shows up in my generic perspective view. I've reset the camera roll angle and still nothing.... any ideas would be welcome at this point. One thing I did notice is that the camera distance is set at less than an inch but it won't let me change that number.

Re: I've Lost My Perspective

Dwight — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:07:48 GMT

It is hard to get an almost vertical camera to go down again.

Have you tried with the navigator window?

Or:

Put a new camera in the plan using the camera tool.

Re: I've Lost My Perspective

__archiben — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:40:59 GMT

info.kaldis wrote:
For some reason nothing shows up in my generic perspective view. I've reset the camera roll angle and still nothing.... any ideas would be welcome at this point. One thing I did notice is that the camera distance is set at less than an inch but it won't let me change that number.

• open your '3D Perspective Settings...' dialogue;
• ensure that it's set to perspective;
• ALT-click to set the target position;
• SHIFT-click to set the camera position.

that should right most perspective stuff-ups . . .

~/archiben

Re: I've Lost My Perspective

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 06:36:41 GMT

Sometimes when I feel I've lost my perspective I go for a walk in the redwoods.

Re: I've Lost My Perspective

stefan — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 06:49:03 GMT

Happens all the time with our students. They do a "zoom extents" as learned in AutoCAD and then problems arise. It is tricky to get back to where you need to be. Certainly when the "clipping plane of death" joins the party...

Re: I've Lost My Perspective

Dwight — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 06:58:31 GMT

Matthew wrote:
Sometimes when I feel I've lost my perspective I go for a walk in the redwoods.

What key combination gets you that?

Re: I've Lost My Perspective

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:36:19 GMT

Dwight wrote:
Matthew wrote:
Sometimes when I feel I've lost my perspective I go for a walk in the redwoods.
What key combination gets you that?

option + B M W (to get there)

for the rest of the process there are no shortcuts

Re: I've Lost My Perspective

Djordje — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:26:08 GMT

stefan wrote:
Happens all the time with our students. They do a "zoom extents" as learned in AutoCAD and then problems arise. It is tricky to get back to where you need to be. Certainly when the "clipping plane of death" joins the party...

A perfect chance to show them CTRL click and SHIFT click for positioning the target and the camera ...

Re: I've Lost My Perspective

stefan — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:05:46 GMT

Djordje wrote:
stefan wrote:
Happens all the time with our students. They do a "zoom extents" as learned in AutoCAD and then problems arise. It is tricky to get back to where you need to be. Certainly when the "clipping plane of death" joins the party...
A perfect chance to show them CTRL click and SHIFT click for positioning the target and the camera ...

True. But they have serious problems remembering these shortcuts, certainly when they are fairly well hidden.

I'm now evaluating their results and the quality varies widely. There are too many of them who simply model for visualization and don't take construction into account (e.g. floors extending through exterior walls)! It was easier to fake something in plain 2D AutoCAD. They have to think when they work in ArchiCAD. Some do, some don't.

Re: I've Lost My Perspective

Dwight — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:11:30 GMT

Considering the dual meaning of this topic, i wonder, Stefan, if you feel your students learn architecture better with Archicad or whether school is just more like a video game?

Re: I've Lost My Perspective

stefan — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:34:00 GMT

Dwight wrote:
Considering the dual meaning of this topic, i wonder, Stefan, if you feel your students learn architecture better with Archicad or whether school is just more like a video game?

Hard to tell. We started introducing AutoCAD and SketchUp in the first year and ArchiCAD in the third year, instead of having everything in the 4th year. This gives them earlier access to software knowledge and that is sometimes too early: before they have design knowledge...

They are able to draft and create nice models in SketchUp (well, at first sight, untill you notice that the meshes are not clean, faces are overlapping and the model is a messy mesh at best).

But with ArchiCAD, some of them don't even see the real perspective here... They want to draft and do a small amount of modeling. They are only concerned about the 3D model looking fine in perspective, but they don't think structurally. I specifically mentioned the attention they should give to model as you would build. Unfortunately, they are not that well aware of how to build something at that time.

I do have high hopes that they are at least introduced to BIM concepts and that they might elaborate on that in their next design studio project. And that they start converting architectural practices when they graduate.