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.

[stefan]

Dwight wrote:
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?

Hard to tell. We started introducing AutoCAD and SketchUp in the first year and ArchiCAD in the third year, instead of having everything in the 4th year. This gives them earlier access to software knowledge and that is sometimes too early: before they have design knowledge...

They are able to draft and create nice models in SketchUp (well, at first sight, untill you notice that the meshes are not clean, faces are overlapping and the model is a messy mesh at best).

But with ArchiCAD, some of them don't even see the real perspective here... They want to draft and do a small amount of modeling. They are only concerned about the 3D model looking fine in perspective, but they don't think structurally. I specifically mentioned the attention they should give to model as you would build. Unfortunately, they are not that well aware of how to build something at that time.

I do have high hopes that they are at least introduced to BIM concepts and that they might elaborate on that in their next design studio project. And that they start converting architectural practices when they graduate.