topic Re: Exploded Plan View in Modeling

Exploded Plan View

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:24:03 GMT

Any software on the market that can do this or how do you do this in ArchiCad?

Re: Exploded Plan View

Karl Ottenstein — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:34:39 GMT

Can't read your mind ... can you post a picture or a link to what you're trying to produce?

Thanks,
Karl

Re: Exploded Plan View

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 20:50:18 GMT

Karl wrote:
Can't read your mind ... can you post a picture or a link to what you're trying to produce?

Thanks,
Karl

Re: Exploded Plan View

Karl Ottenstein — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 21:33:43 GMT

Ah. Exploded model.

Relatively easy, but manual process to be done on a copy of the file.

Floor explosion is easily done by opening story settings and increasing the height-to-next as required for the desired look (appears double height in your image).

Other elements have to be dragged by hand - walls pulled out, fireplace pulled out, etc.

Annotation in 3D is not possible in AC, so you have to generated a hidden line 3D view, flat marquee the image, and paste the linework into a working area - such as an unlinked Detail window - and annotate there.

Alternatively, if you need a variety of exploded angles, you can export the exploded 3D model to 3DS and import that into SketchUp, if you have it. Annotate in SU, and the annotation rotates to face the camera as you change the view of the model.

Karl

Re: Exploded Plan View

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 21:58:30 GMT

Karl,
Thanks.

Have you done this before and do you have any shots of it?

Re: Exploded Plan View

Dwight — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 22:40:23 GMT

Karl: Wonderful tip - the storey height increase thing!!!

Here's one of mine - no storey changes, just manual expansion and elevation, but it also works well to use a combination of see-thru wireframe with the rendering.....

I prefer a perspective view with lots of wide angle distortion - more like a Scientific American style dissection diagram.

Re: Exploded Plan View

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 22:43:42 GMT

Dwight, awesome do you have anymore?

Re: Exploded Plan View

Dwight — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 23:19:42 GMT

None that I can show right now.

This was my 2004 submission to the ASAI illustration competition.

The reason I posted this one to ArciCAD TALK is to show the hybrid possibilities of merging a plan, section, wireframe and solid rendering in one layout.

Re: Exploded Plan View

Djordje — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:04:18 GMT

For a nice "transparent" blow up, going to Sketchup might be more trouble than it is worth.

In the Special menu, Switch on Special Hidden Line and play around to your heart's content.

The annotation? Might sound completely crazy, but I would do it in PlotMaker!!!! Better (live view) than copying the 3D line work from the 3D window and paste it into the plan ...

Re: Exploded Plan View

Karl Ottenstein — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 21:24:47 GMT

Djordje wrote:
The annotation? Might sound completely crazy, but I would do it in PlotMaker!!!! Better (live view) than copying the 3D line work from the 3D window and paste it into the plan ...

Good idea, Djordje! But, with no snap points in PM, it makes it hard to be very precise if you want annotation leaders to snap ... or to draw dotted extended-floor lines as in the original example image, right?

My other frustration with putting live 3D hidden line drawings into PM directly is that the 3D window does not generate the proper linework for composites (no skin lines and fills!) and it generates extra lines where soliid element ops have eliminated them in section view (for some reason sections are generated with a different algorithm than 3D). So, I find that there is a LOT of cleanup of a 3D hidden line view required if either of those two features (composites and SEOps) are used. Would be nice if I was missing something...?

Karl

Re: Exploded Plan View

Karl Ottenstein — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 21:26:43 GMT

Dwight wrote:
This was my 2004 submission to the ASAI illustration competition.

The reason I posted this one to ArciCAD TALK is to show the hybrid possibilities of merging a plan, section, wireframe and solid rendering in one layout.

Absolutely beautiful, Dwight. Bet you could sell copies in poster-size. 😉

Nice technique illustration, too!

Karl