Explore the process of creating architectural vignettes to capture and showcase different views of a construction project. This in-depth guide walks through the steps of creating multiple views, adjusting perspectives, applying 3D view templates, and organizing the vignettes on a sheet for presentation.
Key Insights
- The first step in creating an architectural vignette is identifying the views that best capture the elements of the project you want to highlight. These views could include the entrance, specific areas that aren't showing on the title sheet, or other unique features of the project.
- Adjusting the phase and phase filter settings can reveal different aspects of the space, such as interior elements. The 3D view template can then be applied to the view to provide different looks of the space and highlight certain features.
- Organizing the vignettes on a sheet for presentation requires careful consideration of size and arrangement. The size of the views can be adjusted to ensure a balanced layout on the sheet, and the views should be renamed to provide clear, descriptive labels.
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For the vignettes that we're going to put on sheet 902 here, I'm really going to leave that totally up to you guys and like where you want to see these, but I'll be putting four of these on this view, and I'll be putting three or four of these depending on which views we pick, and here's just an example of one that I already created just highlighting some of the areas of the project that aren't showing up on our title sheet, and so again, like I said, I'll leave that up to you and I'll go through how we can create a couple of these, but I would like you to take a look at different views that you'd like to be placing on here. So I'm going to jump back to my level one floor plan, and the first one I'm going to create is going to be a view that looks at the entrance, and so I'll do the same process that we did before where we go to the 3D view and the camera, and then I'll just point it towards there, not necessarily worrying 100% about how it looks or which way we're going here, and the goal is, you know, this is a pretty cool view by itself, so that could definitely be one of them, but the goal would be to show something that highlights the skylight here, and then another thing I want to do is as I do this, because you know, it could have an effect on the way this looks, is I'm going to apply the 3D view template to this, and you can see this starts to show a big hole that we left in the building, but it does start to show some of the different looks of the space that we have here. If you wanted to, you can even change the phase of this view to TI, so we can see some of the stuff on the inside, and we'd have to adjust the phase filter from show all to something different, because what it's doing is it's overriding the existing stuff, so we can't actually see in, and so what I could do is I could change my phase filter to not be part of the view template, and then that way I could change it to show complete, which will show this and starts to some of the interior space, so I think that's pretty cool.
So this could be my first one here, and I can go ahead and change this one, and I'll be a little bit more descriptive with some of these, so instead of like south or east or west, I'll just call it, you know, entry perspective, and so that'll be a view, and I don't know exactly how big it's going to be, it's definitely going to be larger than six inches, so I'm going to go ahead and just make that 15 inches wide, and we'll arrange these on the sheet once we get to that point, and so here's one of the views that we'll have showing on here, and then we'll go back to level one, and kind of do the same thing, and so when I look at our title sheet, which has a couple of 3D views already, you know, I don't want to recreate these ones, so there's a view from the back side that we're not really showing at all that I think would be pretty cool, so I'm going to go back to level one, and we'll do the same thing. So a view from like back here isn't something that we're necessarily seeing right now, and it'd be cool to see this window from a different angle, and then also seeing kind of how this cantilever is out here a little bit. We'll do our camera view, and then a perspective through there, and you can see I really missed that one quite a bit, but it doesn't matter because these are these are pretty easy to modify, and so depending on how strong you want your perspective to be, you can have it set that way.
One thing that gives you that true two-point perspective is making sure that you have your eye and your target elevation at the same height, so that you are just looking straight out. If you start to adjust those, then you're going to get more of a three-point perspective, and so if I wanted to adjust this a little bit, I can kind of go through and zoom in or out, so you can see if I zoom in, it starts to pull closer to it a little bit, and then I can pan either way to highlight whichever I'm trying to highlight. Same thing as before, I'm going to go ahead and apply that 3D view template to this view, and I can see now that this would be another one of our good views, and so I can adjust the size crop on this one, making sure I leave that scale locked, and I'm going to make this one like one of the larger views that'll be on our sheet, and so I'll make that like 22 inches here, and just so we can kind of see how this is starting to lay out, I'm going to go ahead and jump over to A902, and I'm actually going to put a couple of these on sheets here, so the entry perspective, I want to see what that looks like, and that looks pretty cool, and then I'll go ahead and add the other one that I just created, which is probably this 3D view 3, because we didn't rename it yet, and I'll go ahead and rename that one, and I believe this is the northeast, and throw that one on the sheet, and I can make this larger if I wanted to.
You can see it's, there's a lot of room here on this view, and so I can size crop it to be maybe more like 30 inches, and then always adjusting those view titles after we make a change like that. Okay, it looks like we have room for maybe one or two more, depending on how we decide to do that, and so you can go in to your level one or level two, and kind of create another vignette view of these things. I think we don't have a view coming from the left-hand side, so I'll just pop over to that title sheet again, and see, so we don't really show anything from this side of the building here, so I'll create a view looking that way, so really highlighting this corner.
It's got a cool look to it, so you can see I started the camera pretty close to the edge there, and that really brings us in tight to the, to the building, and so I'll rename this one, this is going to be like a southwest perspective, and then put that on the sheet, and you can see we're getting a lot of views open here, so it's hard to navigate through, so I just close hidden windows, and then I can just jump back to our A902 now, and I can put this next one on the sheet, and that's pretty small, so we can make that much larger, so maybe 16 inches, yeah, that looks pretty good, and then I can set it in here, and of course, let's not forget, set that view template, and just lining things up, and that gives us a few vignette shots that we could do. Some of the other things that are pretty cool here is, if I wanted to show like a section here, if you remember, we can always do section boxes, whether it's in 2D or even a 3D view, kind of like this, and I got a little too aggressive there, but we could do a section through the building like that, that's kind of cutting through the stairs, maybe another angle would be better, but just, I always like to bring it up, because it's just a cool way to, to show the building as well, and it kind of gives people an idea of what, what the project actually looks like. When you're doing it in perspective, it does get a little crazy, because then, you know, some of your other points are way far out like that, but it is a cool way to, to show the project.
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This would be one that if we did the section perspective on, it'd be cool to show the TI, because then you can kind of start to see some of the space in there, but for this one here, I'm going to go ahead and just leave it as a section, just throwing it out there as an option for you guys, if you wanted to, to get a little more creative with it. So these are the three vignettes that I'm going to use for A902, and then we're going to jump into the next part here, where we're going to take a look at a checklist to just run through really quickly, as we look at all of our sheets, double check all our keynotes, get our revision set up, and then we'll be ready to start printing for our, our final.
