Discover how to add a 3D view to your project, to create a comprehensive presentation sheet that includes floor plans, roof plans, and elevations. Gain insight into adjusting shadows, changing visual styles, managing lighting, and utilizing sketchy lines for a more visually appealing output.
Key Insights
- The process of adding a 3D view to a project involves choosing a vantage point, selecting the camera option and adjusting the view depth to cover the entire building.
- Optimizing the visual appeal of a 3D view requires adjusting shadows, changing the visual style from hidden line to shaded, and managing the lighting to achieve the desired brightness and shadow effect.
- The use of sketchy lines tool can enhance the 3D view by softening the perspective, although care must be taken to avoid overuse of the jitter option which can distort the image.
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Now that we've finished with our sections and adding those extra elements there, what we can do is we can switch over to adding a 3D view, because ultimately our goal is going to be to create a sheet that looks something like this here. And we want to have the floor plans, the roof plan, and then also we want to make sure that we add these elevations and the section and this 3D view onto the view to create a good presentation sheet that we can then submit for the final submission. So for the 3D view, this will be pretty similar to what we created during our driving lesson here, but we're going to go to level one and we're going to use this as the basis.
So I'll kind of create the view that looks from here back toward the entry, and there's multiple ways that we can go about it, but this is going to be the one that we'll use for the final. We're going to go to the view tab. Remember, we've got the option for the bottom side of 3D view here, and I'm going to pick camera.
With camera, I want to pick my starting point, so kind of somewhere out here, and then I'll drag it all the way out across to create the vantage point I want, and I want to make sure I cover the whole building. Remember, if we stop it here, the view depth won't be long enough, so we'll have to adjust it after the fact, but so we might as well just make it the way we need it to be now, like this. And so I'll just go in and kind of tweak the boundary that I have, and then we can do a lot of the same things that we did with the elevation to make the 3D view look pretty cool.
And so to do that, the first thing I'm going to do is I want to adjust the shadows, so I'll turn those on, and then I'm going to go ahead and change my visual style from hidden line to shaded, and we need to definitely adjust the lighting because that is way too dark. So I'm going to go into my graphic display options, lighting, and then I'm going to go ahead and adjust my sun to brighten it up and drop the shadows down, and we want to do some of the same things. We want to set silhouettes to wide lines.
We'd like to turn on the ambient shadows, and then at this point I'm going to hit apply so I can kind of see what some of the things we've done are looking like. And so it's still a little dark, I think, on this side, so I'll bring the sun up and then turn the shadows down, and let's turn up the ambient light. And so we should get more light on this side here, which we did, and sun's a little bright, so we'll turn that down again.
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And what we can do now is we can go ahead and we can actually use another tool, which is the sketchy lines, and this one can be good and it can be really bad as well, so you have to be careful with how you mess with this jitter option, and I'll turn this up pretty high so you can see what it does, but it can get a little squiggly and that's a little too much, right? It's kind of, it's like a bad Photoshop filter, so it's a little too squiggly for my taste, so I try to keep that one down to a minimum, if anything at all, but the extension one looks pretty cool. If you turn extensions on, you can see it'll soften up the perspective a bit to make it look like it's a little less permanent, especially at this level in the drawing. If you want it to be really extended, you can go to 10.
I think 7 or 8 is probably going to be fine for this project here. So you can always go in and kind of tweak these settings to suit your needs and your taste. There's tons of different options in here and variations that you can go through, but these will be the ones that we'll use for our view.
So what's important here is that your crop region is not out of control and like way off the view, and then you want to make sure that you just kind of set it up so that it has a graphically pleasing look to it.
