Explore the process of creating a 3D view on the north side of a building, with a focus on highlighting a curtain wall. Learn the steps to add these views to your project sheet and how to adjust the views for optimal visual representation.
Key Insights
- The article provides a step-by-step guide on creating a 3D view of a building's north side, emphasizing the curtain wall and adjusting the perspective to best showcase the construction.
- To add views to a project sheet, choose a suitable angle and use the '3D view and camera' option on the view tab. Adjustments can be made to show more of the building and less of the site.
- When adding created views to a title sheet, it’s essential to consider the size and scale of the inserted view. The 'size crop' option can be used to adjust the view size, and the 'scale' feature ensures that all dimensions are increased proportionally.
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Since this project has more than just one interesting side to it, I want to do another 3D view, and that's going to be on the north side of the building. And from here, what we'll do is we'll create a view that highlights this curtain wall. So I figured since we spent so much time putting that thing together, it's only fair that we have a cool 3D view perspective of it.
And so we'll do the same process we did before, where we kind of pick an angle and try to highlight it. And so what I'll do is I'll go to my view tab again, 3D view and camera, and then we're going to try and shoot at it kind of from this angle here. And so if I were to go in and say, pick, you know, roughly say this angle right here, then I can go ahead and adjust my, my view to show more of the building and less of the site here.
Make sure I show the whole building. And now we can see it's a pretty decent view of, of our project there. If you wanted to adjust it, remember that shift W option allows you to twist it around and see more angles without doing too much work to kind of finagle it around.
So I think this looks pretty good. It kind of gives you a good shot of this side of the building. And now we'd be ready to start putting these together on our sheet.
So I'm going to go to my title sheet, the A00 sheet, and knowing that I'm using this 3D view Southwest perspective. And then again, this one, which I should rename to be consistent here, that is our Northwest perspective. I can add these views to my sheet.
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So I'll start with the South one and I can add it to the sheet. And I think everybody's first reaction is that's a little underwhelming because we are kind of. On the small side there.
And so what I could do is I can activate the view and then we can change the size of this view by using the size crop option. And always, if you remember from previous lessons, we want to hit that scale option and then we can adjust the width to be closer to this point here. So I always go a little larger than I probably think it might be, because typically I try to make these smaller than they need to be.
And so here in this case, I could go ahead and maybe crop some of the items on the bottom, because keeping in mind, we do want to put another view on here. And then I can size crop it again to where this is like maybe 24 inches instead of 20. And I broke the golden rule.
You see how it only changed in the width. I have to make sure that I'm hitting that scale option here because it'll make them both larger. See how that changed as well.
And so now it's taking up more of the space so I can adjust it accordingly. And then I'll want to do the same thing with my Northwest perspective and put that one into play. And this one's even smaller.
And so by doing this, I want to make sure that, you know, I'm showing the building more than anything, not so much the site. So adjusting that height at that point. And then also keeping in mind that the view title is really in play here because we have more than one.
So I'll put that in place. That gives me an idea of how much space I have to work with. And then I can go ahead and adjust this size crop, hitting that scale again, and then setting it to 24 inches like we did before.
And it looks like they're about the same size. So this should work out. And so just kind of tightening this one up a bit too, taking on both the fit on the sheet, and then I can adjust it around.
And I got a little bit of room here on the top, so I can kind of move that around. This is our scope box that you're seeing here. So that's not going to be part of the view.
So I'm just using my D-pad on my keyboard to move these around. And then I'll just line up my view title and get those set up. And so for both of these views, I'm going to turn off my crop region so I can get a good idea of what these will look like.
And now I've got these two rendering views on my title sheet. And then the next step is going to be to create a perspective view template that I can apply to these types of views.
