Cardboard Model

[Robert Fuchs]

I am trying something different with some renderings. I have noticed when we do renderings for our clients at the beginning of a project they get stuck on the colors or materials I have chosen instead of looking at the design. So I have played with an idea of showing off the design without using materials or colors that would throw off a client. What do you guys think? BTW, they were rendered in Artlantis Studio.

[Anonymous]

Link,

The concept you have described/practice is brilliant, and is also very possible... you can even switch back and forth from realistic materials to cardboard/foam/plastic materials with the proper templates at any given time.... incredible! I've never thought about that. This opens a whole new world with controllability when trying to produce different types of render styles/techniques from a single archicad project! Until Archicad invents some way to save material combinations...this is very doable through templates.

thanks Link

[Link]

Thomas wrote:
But Link: Please detail your bulk material switch procedure a little - it seems like a brilliant tip , but I don't follow you completely, and I'm scared of material confusion - I've had too many "missing library part" dialogs in my life!

To set up the default templates, simply copy a material (eg. whitewash) multiple times and name them like 'Default External Wall', 'Default Column', etc. This is easy done in the Attribute Manager. Then in your template set up your tool defaults and/or favorites to use these materials where appropriate, so that everything you create uses these default materials.

Once you have finalized the material, switch it out by changing the material definition, or by using this method.

Cheers,
Link.

[Thomas Holm]

Thanks Link, that is really brilliant! I'm sorry I didn't remember you'd published it already

[Mats_Knutsson]

Link wrote:

Thomas wrote:
But Link: Please detail your bulk material switch procedure a little - it seems like a brilliant tip , but I don't follow you completely, and I'm scared of material confusion - I've had too many "missing library part" dialogs in my life!

To set up the default templates, simply copy a material (eg. whitewash) multiple times and name them like 'Default External Wall', 'Default Column', etc. This is easy done in the Attribute Manager. Then in your template set up your tool defaults and/or favorites to use these materials where appropriate, so that everything you create uses these default materials.

Once you have finalized the material, switch it out by changing the material definition, or by using this method.

Cheers,
Link.

This tip is all sweet Link!
But...would it be a huge programming issue to have one tiny API that overrules all materials? A "one-for-all-material button?". I think I need to check this out with MAD in Finland.
Last time at GS I proposed a material alternative table...similar in concept to pen set. But GS focus is probably elsewhere at the moment.

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[Thomas Holm]

Good idea, Mats!
But... All But Glass? All, But Keep Transparency? ...
Well. Still a good idea!

[Anonymous]

Working with favorites and find&select and working in 3d you could make this procedure very simple too if you have a good structure in your file.

[Mats_Knutsson]

Thomas wrote:
Good idea, Mats!
But... All But Glass? All, But Keep Transparency? ...
Well. Still a good idea!

You're to focused on butts...early friday syndrome perhaps...😉
I also like butts but "keep-it-simple-stupid" gets the job done pretty often...then we can add butts...

Do you know that you can go to our website and enter gdl-wishes!? (swedish/nordic only). We're investing in gdl-knowledge and the API programming knowledge is in the region so this is a very exiting area.
/Mats