Create Floor Plan Show In 3D

[Anonymous]

I Want Create floor plan show in 3D (Shader/Render)...Help me Please.

Thank.

[Haneef Tayob]

If you need to render the image with the plans & its text visible as a 2-d item :

(As Steve Jepson hinted at) - Try converting the plan to a raster image (using publisher to convert to tiff or jpeg. You can even try pdf via other graphics package). The quality of this conversion will make a big difference.

Create a new material using the image as its texture.
Assign this material to a slab or mesh below the model. You need to ensure that the size of the slab and rendered image are the same. The image also need to be aligned correctly.

If you render a 3d view of the image, the 2d plan will be the texture of the base material.

[Anonymous]

While finding a way to get about achieving the desired effect, I came across the "TechTip Contest Winner of the Month of July 2002" Submitted by Bert Nijs from Belgium. He gave a suggestion on how we could do it in ArchiCAD V7.0.

"I came up with this trick when I was searching for a way to show a ground-floorplan in 3D and resurrect only those parts which were of particular interest. This can be done in the following way:

1)Make a DWG-file of your ground-floorplan
2) Open the DWG-file as an object
3) Check for the 3D information. Choose a non-binary 3D Object, if you'd like to adjust soem elements of the drawing (Note: this can be somewhat tricky)

The object will contain the same information in both 2D and 3D - just what we need."

In his method, he created a plot file of the floorplan (.plt), and opened the file in PlotMaker, where everything will more-or-less be exploded.

I tried doing that too, but it seems like the text does not want to show up in 3D VIEW.

It is quite frustrating, and I really dunno how to resolve this. In the .gsm file I sent you, were you able to see text in the 3D VIEW?

Shawn

[TomWaltz]

Shingo wrote:
In his method, he created a plot file of the floorplan (.plt), and opened the file in PlotMaker, where everything will more-or-less be exploded.

I tried doing that too, but it seems like the text does not want to show up in 3D VIEW.

I've had the same problem. The text did not show up for me either when I tried this.

[Anonymous]

Hi TomWaltz

I think the problem is not having the text to show up in 3D, but more like the SOLID FILLS and HATCHES to show.

Text are exploded into solid fills, and it is the solid fills that disappear in 3D View. My dimensions have a fill at the ends and sub-ends, and these fills do not appear either.

Does anyone know how to make it show in 3D view?

[Ben Cohen]

there is way where you save the pln as plot file, open this in plotmaker then save as
a DWG then import it back into ArchiCAD as an object.
This way the text is converted into vectors
Havent done it for years but it works well