topic Re: Create a aerial floor view in Modeling

Create a aerial floor view

Anonymous — Tue, 23 May 2023 12:54:37 GMT

Hello,

I'm a architecture student and I'm working on a project with two plants, in three floors.

1. Ground floor
2. First floor
3. Roof

All roof are plan.

I want to create a view with the roof view, including environment. But I am only able to create a view of the first floor or the third one. What I want is to see all roofs, and the environment.

All environment is placed in ground floor.

How can I do that?

Thank you!!!

Re: Create a aerial floor view

MMontgomery — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 21:36:36 GMT

You can select your Roofs (rooves?), open settings (press CTRL+T), and in the 'Floor Plan and Section' tab under "Floor Plan Display" set to show on all stories and the roof's will show up when viewing a different story.

Re: Create a aerial floor view

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 21:37:10 GMT

1) Go to your roof story, alt-click on the roof, now use >Edit > Select all roofs.
2) Copy all roofs onto new layer, lets say "Roof 4 Site"
3) With New roofs selected, open the roof selection settings, Floor Plan Selections,
. floor plan display and change the floor plan display to all stories.
4) Still in roof selection settings, scroll down and check the cover fills box.
5) Create new layer combo for this special view.
6) That will create a view of the plan that should be close to what you
. want. You can tweak it using these or similar settings.
7) For a presentation instead of normal plan view, use a 3d window parallel
. view and select an orthogonal plan view. This allows you to see
. materials in color and add shadows. EDIT: oops~AC13 = no shadows, sorry.

Snap

PS The reason you want to work on a copy of the roofs is because after
you make the cover fills visible, the drafted plan view is "messy".
The normal roof will visible on your "normal" layer combo, and the opaque
roof visible only with the special combo.

Re: Create a aerial floor view

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:50:29 GMT

Another (maybe better) solution:

This one involves two ideas, the Model View (MV) options and controlling the roof "Show on Stories" visibility through the Custom Settings.

The Custom "Show on Story" Roof Settings can show the fill on stories you want, AND independently show roof outline on another custom set of stories.

Create two custom MV's, one MV with cover fills visible and one MV with cover fills off.
That, in combination with the custom roof settings gives you the flexibility to create the views you need.

Remember when you hide fills, you hide all fills, not just the roof.

What's nice about this solution is you don't have two sets of roofs to remember to change when you edit.

Snap
PS the step by step is a little lengthy, play around and you'll get it.

Re: Create a aerial floor view

Link — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:05:31 GMT

I'd skin this cat by creating a view of just the roof and overlaying it as a drawing on top of your other plans in the layout.

Very simple solution to a common problem.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Create a aerial floor view

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 11:05:48 GMT

Yes, this a common problem i've been thinking about long how to solve it.

Was there any wish before about making site plan/view?

Re: Create a aerial floor view

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:40:41 GMT

I would make a parralel top view in the 3D Window, and then make a 3D-Document with shadows

Re: Create a aerial floor view

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:05:27 GMT

Thanks Baldino,

Good technique.

Re: Create a aerial floor view

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:57:54 GMT

Thank you!!! I'm testing all solutions, let's see how it goes, I will let you know the results!

Re: Create a aerial floor view

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 12:31:13 GMT

Well, seems the easiest solution has been to create two views:

1. View with 1st floor.
2. View with 3rd floor (only roof), with fill.

When placed two views in the same page, you get an aerial plan.

But, I'm a bit confused about shadows. How can I get them?

I don't want a render, I need a plan.

Thank you!!

Re: Create a aerial floor view

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 12:37:27 GMT

Hi Diana,

I think the easiest way the last method.

"a parallel top view in the 3D Window, and then make a 3D-Document with shadows".

Re: Create a aerial floor view

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:12:35 GMT

How to get shadows.

AC13 does not support shadows in OpenGL.
You'll need to find the workaround that fits your style.
Here are three options:

1) render the orthogonal top view in LW, save jpg, place as figure on layout.
2) work in Internal Engine mode and turn sun shadows on.
3) if simple geometry, draw fills for the shadows.

EDIT: The added plan is as you say the easiest. The advantage of the model view + layer combo;
it is generic and works with any roof configuration. The added roof plan view is specific to that roof arrangement.
So if you use this file as the basis for a template, then the next job requires that you remember to open the layout
and reshape or recreate an appropriate second roof view.
The MV+LS will just be there and be correct - no remembering to set it up again.
(Presuming you have separate template for small project vs large one.)

Snap

Re: Create a aerial floor view

Anonymous — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 08:16:09 GMT

Thank you very much for all your help! 🙂