Explore the process of creating a 3D view of the demo plan with shading on to differentiate between existing and demo portions. This article provides a step by step guide on how to adjust the view, set it to be unshaded, change the phase to new construction, and eventually create a size crop.
Key Insights
- The article provides a detailed guide on creating a 3D view of a demo plan, by starting from level two and adjusting the view accordingly.
- The process involves various steps such as setting the view to be unshaded, changing the phase from existing to new construction and setting it to previous plus demo.
- To make the view fit for the sheet, the article recommends creating a size crop, locking the scale and adjusting the size to about 18-20 inches, with additional steps to duplicate the view with the new building.
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Before we print the PDF, I think it'd be cool to have our demo 3D view on here. We're going to go ahead and create a 3D view of the demo plan with the shading on, so we can see the existing and the demo portions of it. So I'm going to do this from level two, and I'm going to create a view that kind of looks at it from this angle and we'll adjust it as we see fit.
So I'm going to go to the view tab, 3D view, the bottom side here, and then we're going to pick camera. And I just want to take a shot at it, kind of somewhere along these lines, right about here. And that looks pretty good.
So I'm going to expand this out a little bit, and then we're going to set our view to be unshaded. And then we're going to change the phase here from existing to new construction. And then we'll set it to previous plus demo.
And so that we have this type of a look to our view. And so this view is one that we're going to put on a sheet. So I'm going to rename it.
So I'm going to go to my 3D views here and I'm going to rename it to demo 3D view. And let's go to our title sheet and we'll put it on a sheet. And so I don't think anybody's going to be happy with that.
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We're going to go ahead and do what's called a size crop. If I have it selected here, we can actually adjust the size crop. And there's only one important setting in here.
And that's essentially making sure that you lock the scale. If you leave it field of view, then this is just going to keep getting wider while that stays at three, almost four inches. If I change that to scale, which it'll lock these proportions, then I can make that three times the size, about 18 inches, and you can see it makes that about 10.
And that increases the size of our view to something that's a little bit more acceptable for, for our project. And we can even make it a little bit bigger. Let's say, let's go 20 inches here.
And then eventually once we finish the rest of it, we'll have, we'll have the view on the bottom, which is the same. We'll make a, we'll make a duplicate of this and it'll be the exact same view, but with our new building that we've modeled in here. Okay.
So one thing that has happened here is we've ended up with our view title kind of hiding in the middle there. So I'm going to move it over. And then I'll adjust the extents to have it along the line.
And it'll be cool. Cause we'll have the demo showing what we're demolishing here. And then we'll have the, the new construction portion on the bottom using the same exact view.
