Rendered true elevations

[Anonymous]

I have created a rendering in Art.lantis and now I have been asked to provide large true elevations that are fully rendered. I mean walls and roofs with photo textures, etc same as the rendering. This must be a vector drawing that I can send to my printing service as a PLT (plot file) in color.
I tried parallel projections but Art.lantis will not accept them and it would not be vector. All I need is the building, no foreground or background.
Are there any ideas?[list=]

[Anonymous]

Interesting question, could this be one solution?

After you create the bitmap image.

http://www.celinea.com/#vectoreye

http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/

or

http://www.adobe.com/products/streamline/main.html

Streamline, Adobe Illustrator.

[Ignacio Azpiazu]

If it is Artlantis then it will be bitmaps. The file can go to your printing service as a PDF.

I love Artlantis elevations, although for some reason I never get the scale right in Plotmaker (an elevation rendered for 144 dpi@1/8" will look smaller when imported as a Photoshop file into Plotmaker, and I need to stretch it manually to fill some reference hotspots or whatever).

This is one I am working on at the moment:
http://www.ar-in.com/samples/Min_blur_blue_red.jpg

Export your model just as you always do (3D window, perspective), and on Artlantis 4.5 (previous versions don't have elevations; a so-so workaround is making a perspective from a very distant viewpoint, but an upgrade is cheaper than the time you will waste) you select parallel views, Cmd-4. If you have distant stuff Atmosphere can blur that a bit. Hit Render from the Parallel View window --Cmd-R or the top menu will give you a rendering sized to your Camera rendering size, which typically is way smaller than you need for a rendered elevation.

[Anonymous]

Bring your finished renders into Plotmaker after upgrading to Artlantis 4.5 and 'plot to file'. If these are too big to email print to PDF instead. Your printer will be able to 'rip' these for printing/plotting. I do this all the time with good results - but check the PDF carefully as sometimes strange things can happen to text and the order of vectorial fills- when using elevations, plans etc. coloured in Archicad. Your bitmaps will be fine in this instance