2009-05-29 10:13 PM
2009-06-04 07:08 PM
Samovar wrote:Aloha Samovar,
Even vanilla AutoCADhas a free plugin for subscribers to produce quick sketchy rendered plans and elevations.
It's called impressions. Check out the design gallery:
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=9246650
I know it's possible to do something similar in ArchiCAD with a bit of help from photoshop (or CorelDRAW), but how about something like a model-view option: easy to use straight out of the box.
2009-06-05 09:51 AM
johncassel wrote:Sorry, but I don't see the point. I checked the Impressions demo. Looks lika a very crippled version of Piranesi. You save a dwg line drawing from your model, then stylize and color it in various ways. There is absolutely no time saved from the procedures described earlier in this thread. The difference is that you exit your CAD application earlier than if you do a sketch and a LW color render in Archicad, and then combine them in Photoshop.
In the mean time we are going to try Impressions. It looks like we may be doing our next project in...
2009-06-05 10:37 AM
Thomas wrote:Thomas,johncassel wrote:Sorry, but I don't see the point. I checked the Impressions demo. Looks lika a very crippled version of Piranesi. You save a dwg line drawing from your model, then stylize and color it in various ways. There is absolutely no time saved from the procedures described earlier in this thread. The difference is that you exit your CAD application earlier than if you do a sketch and a LW color render in Archicad, and then combine them in Photoshop.
In the mean time we are going to try Impressions. It looks like we may be doing our next project in...
Using the Archicad+Photoshop method you can even set up presets, styles and materials, and then macros in Photoshop, so that almost all of the procedure is automated. And you don't lose the intelligence of the BIM application, which you do if you switch.
But if you want to do this in an external, excellent and Architect-oriented illustration package, take a serious look at Piranesi. To export to it, you just save from a 3D view in Archicad. Then you have all the tools of Impression + a lot more, like depth sensitivity.
2009-06-05 12:09 PM
johncassel wrote:I would guess not. Remember, "Impressions" is also an external program (even if it locks you into Autodesk's arrogant subscription policies).
That said I want to repeat that I am asking for these 2D rendering features right within ArchiCAD. I figure that if I say that enough times it will come true
2009-06-05 12:12 PM
2009-06-05 12:54 PM
Thomas wrote:Thomas,
Artlantis for example serves another illustration taste, and does it excellently. And I have problems imagining a practice without Photoshop or a similar photo editor.
2009-06-05 05:17 PM
2009-06-06 12:25 PM
Rick wrote:Rick, with all due respect, that's not true. You previously wrote "I do the LW/sketch combined in PS method". Your method gives beautiful results, and is the one I'd recommend johncassel to use, but I regard it as external since you're using Photoshop. AND it's so easy I think GS should use their resources on other things.
...I have avoided all the external rendering options...
2009-06-06 04:06 PM
Rick, with all due respect, that's not true.Caught
2009-06-06 11:42 PM
Thomas wrote:Precious... but it is possible. It is only not possible if we cannot vision it.
I appreciate that you want the one ring to rule them all. I'd like that too, if it were possible.