I've Lost My Perspective

[Anonymous]

For some reason nothing shows up in my generic perspective view. I've reset the camera roll angle and still nothing.... any ideas would be welcome at this point. One thing I did notice is that the camera distance is set at less than an inch but it won't let me change that number.

[Dwight]

It is hard to get an almost vertical camera to go down again.

Have you tried with the navigator window?

Or:

Put a new camera in the plan using the camera tool.

[__archiben]

info.kaldis wrote:
For some reason nothing shows up in my generic perspective view. I've reset the camera roll angle and still nothing.... any ideas would be welcome at this point. One thing I did notice is that the camera distance is set at less than an inch but it won't let me change that number.

• open your '3D Perspective Settings...' dialogue;
• ensure that it's set to perspective;
• ALT-click to set the target position;
• SHIFT-click to set the camera position.

that should right most perspective stuff-ups . . .

~/archiben

[Anonymous]

Sometimes when I feel I've lost my perspective I go for a walk in the redwoods.

[stefan]

Happens all the time with our students. They do a "zoom extents" as learned in AutoCAD and then problems arise. It is tricky to get back to where you need to be. Certainly when the "clipping plane of death" joins the party...

[Dwight]

Matthew wrote:
Sometimes when I feel I've lost my perspective I go for a walk in the redwoods.

What key combination gets you that?

[Anonymous]

Dwight wrote:

Matthew wrote:
Sometimes when I feel I've lost my perspective I go for a walk in the redwoods.

What key combination gets you that?

option + B M W (to get there)

for the rest of the process there are no shortcuts

[Djordje]

stefan wrote:
Happens all the time with our students. They do a "zoom extents" as learned in AutoCAD and then problems arise. It is tricky to get back to where you need to be. Certainly when the "clipping plane of death" joins the party...

A perfect chance to show them CTRL click and SHIFT click for positioning the target and the camera ...

[stefan]

Djordje wrote:

stefan wrote:
Happens all the time with our students. They do a "zoom extents" as learned in AutoCAD and then problems arise. It is tricky to get back to where you need to be. Certainly when the "clipping plane of death" joins the party...

A perfect chance to show them CTRL click and SHIFT click for positioning the target and the camera ...

True. But they have serious problems remembering these shortcuts, certainly when they are fairly well hidden.

I'm now evaluating their results and the quality varies widely. There are too many of them who simply model for visualization and don't take construction into account (e.g. floors extending through exterior walls)! It was easier to fake something in plain 2D AutoCAD. They have to think when they work in ArchiCAD. Some do, some don't.

[Dwight]

Considering the dual meaning of this topic, i wonder, Stefan, if you feel your students learn architecture better with Archicad or whether school is just more like a video game?