topic Re: Is possible to save and place perfectly orthogonal views in Visualization

Is possible to save and place perfectly orthogonal views +?

Anonymous — Thu, 11 May 2023 13:36:03 GMT

Hello,
I need to know if it is possible to place the floor plan and elevations as
perfectly orthogonal (flat) model views with colors? The top view doesn't work for what I need to do. It needs to be flat with the model colors so I can put
it exactly on top of the dimensioned floor plan.

The goal is to have a fully colored & dimensioned combination site and floor plan and fully colored & dimensioned exterior elevations.

The old fashioned way would be to print black or brown line prints and color by hand with markers...Ugh

Re: Is possible to save and place perfectly orthogonal views

Eduardo Rolon — Sun, 15 May 2016 19:29:12 GMT

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For Floor Plans
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In 3D Window:
• Right click on empty space and select "3D Projection Settings"
• Select "Parallel Projections"
• Choose Top view" and move the camera if needed
• Right Click and select "New 3D Document from 3d…" and edit the settings in the new window
• or use CR to render a top view

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For Elevations and Sections
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You can use the above procedure or just turn materials on "Model Display Settings" for the S/E

Re: Is possible to save and place perfectly orthogonal views

Anonymous — Sun, 15 May 2016 19:56:22 GMT

Ok, I get a 3d document that appears to be 2d, contains no color and everything is there and nothing is editable...Ugh
CR?

Re: Is possible to save and place perfectly orthogonal views

Eduardo Rolon — Sun, 15 May 2016 19:59:26 GMT

You need to turn the surfaces for the model on in the 3D Doc Settings.

http://helpcenter.graphisoft.com/guides/archicad-19-int-reference-guide/user-interface-reference-2/dialog-boxes/3d-document-settings/

Re: Is possible to save and place perfectly orthogonal views

Anonymous — Sun, 15 May 2016 20:53:07 GMT

I'm trying everything and no luck - It's still just black and white lines

ejrolon wrote:
You need to turn the surfaces for the model on in the 3D Doc Settings.

http://helpcenter.graphisoft.com/guides/archicad-19-int-reference-guide/user-interface-reference-2/dialog-boxes/3d-document-settings/

Re: Is possible to save and place perfectly orthogonal views

Anonymous — Sun, 15 May 2016 21:10:41 GMT

Okay, I didn't realize that the 3d view was flat. I thought it was still the top view. Going to place this and see if the dimensions will work on it.

Re: Is possible to save and place perfectly orthogonal views

Anonymous — Sun, 15 May 2016 21:24:21 GMT

After placing on a layout it looks like it's way too pixelated and there doesn't
appear to be anyway to add dimensions.

Re: Is possible to save and place perfectly orthogonal views

Anonymous — Sun, 15 May 2016 21:33:54 GMT

It looks like you have gone "Save As…" from your 3D window, which only saves an image of your 3D view, hence the pixellation. In 3D window you need to right click and go to "New 3D Document from 3D", then set it up and save the view like any other view. 3D documents can have dimensions and text added.

Re: Is possible to save and place perfectly orthogonal views

Anonymous — Mon, 16 May 2016 00:49:53 GMT

S2art,
From the 3d window "top View" I'm right clicking and using the "New 3D Document from 3D" - I give it a name and press create. It says it's generating the 3d document and calculating split polygons then it comes up as a plan view
with the grid display on. there is no color here and the view is 2d only
see screenshot below. If I go to the 3d window it takes me back to the 3d view that this was made from. I don't know of anyother way to save this except to do a save view and place on a layout. I need a high resolution model colored plan that can be dimensioned and placed on a layout.
I've added another screenshot below to show the view I need to work with.
Don't know how the dimensions are going to show, but one problem at a time I guess

s2art wrote:
It looks like you have gone "Save As…" from your 3D window, which only saves an image of your 3D view, hence the pixellation. In 3D window you need to right click and go to "New 3D Document from 3D", then set it up and save the view like any other view. 3D documents can have dimensions and text added.

Re: Is possible to save and place perfectly orthogonal views

Anonymous — Mon, 16 May 2016 00:51:54 GMT

This is what I need to place on a layout, but everytime I try to do it it's too pixelated.

Re: Is possible to save and place perfectly orthogonal views

Eduardo Rolon — Mon, 16 May 2016 01:15:32 GMT

Check the Surfaces applied to the Building Materials or if you have a renovation filter overriding stuff. If you are getting errors in generating the 3D it might also affect that. Also make sure that your "Layer Set" is not setting the model to hidden line.

Re: Is possible to save and place perfectly orthogonal views

Anonymous — Mon, 16 May 2016 14:11:12 GMT

Hi, Why did you try making the 3d document from the plan view?
Check this.
http://helpcenter.graphisoft.com/videos/archicad/documenting/3d-document/archicad-17-new-features-floor-plan-based-3d-documents/archicad-17-new-features-012-creating-a-3d-floor-plan-3d-document/

Re: Is possible to save and place perfectly orthogonal views

Anonymous — Mon, 16 May 2016 18:01:08 GMT

No, when I create the 3d document it creates and opens a floor plan view.
of the plan that I cut with a cutting plane. I did a screen shot of this above.
There is also a screen shot of the 3d view which when placed on a layout is
far to pixelated to be useful.
I did a google search for presentation floor plans produced with archicad and
none of them have dimensions strings. I don't think it's possible to do what I want to do in a truly professional way if only because the green background would hide the dimension strings. I thought about cutting holes in the layout
drawing and overlaying another layout with only the dimensions, but it wouldn't look good even if I could do it. the plan can be scaled exactly, but the 3d view only by %. I'm going to give up on this idea for now and provide the planning commission with un-colored noted & dimensioned plans and another set that are the colored 3d views without notes & dimensions.

arqrivas wrote:
Hi, Why did you try making the 3d document from the plan view?
Check this.
http://helpcenter.graphisoft.com/videos/archicad/documenting/3d-document/archicad-17-new-features-floor-plan-based-3d-documents/archicad-17-new-features-012-creating-a-3d-floor-plan-3d-document/

Re: Is possible to save and place perfectly orthogonal views

Anonymous — Mon, 16 May 2016 18:40:55 GMT

Ok, I'll give you a trick here.
Save the 3d Document from the plan, make it a very big scale, make a dimension style with big numbers to fit the big scale of the 3d document.
Then place the 3d document in the layout and reduce the scale to the scale you need or want.
This will take a lot of pixelation, is not perfect as vectorial but it will look good enough hopefully.

PD: don't trust on the pixelation you will see in the Archicad window, publish to PDF and there you will see the real thing.

Re: Is possible to save and place perfectly orthogonal views

Anonymous — Mon, 16 May 2016 18:47:09 GMT

This is a screenshot from the PDF published with the technique explained above. Just a quick test.