Explore how setting up views can dramatically simplify the process of creating 3D models, especially when working on projects that include existing, new, and demolition phases. The article underscores the importance of adopting this approach to save time and eliminate unnecessary complexities.
Key Insights
- Instead of diving right into modeling walls, doors, windows, etc., setting up the views for the model in advance can prevent future complications and save valuable time, particularly in projects that include existing and new phases and even a demolition portion.
- Duplicating views can be a helpful strategy. This typically involves creating copies of the model elements, and if necessary, any annotations like room tags or dimensions. It's crucial, however, to be consistent with the naming or labeling of these views to avoid confusion.
- After setting up the views to be used, it's essential to understand the concept of phasing. The article hints at a further exploration of phasing in subsequent content.
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At this point in the project, it's very tempting to just start modeling all the walls, the doors, the windows, everything that you see here. But we can benefit greatly by doing a few things before we get started. My recommendation is that we go in and we first set up the views that we're going to use to create this existing model.
If you're doing a model from scratch, that's going to be a brand new building. This is not as important. But when we model something that has existing and new phases and even a demolition portion in between there, we want to make sure that we have the views set up because it'll just save us a lot of time and headache going forward.
So the first thing that I'm going to do is I'm going to take this Level One view and I'm going to duplicate it. To do that, I'm just going to right-click, 'Duplicate View.' And we have these options, 'Duplicate, ' 'Duplicate with Detailing, ' and 'Duplicate as Dependent.'
Now, it doesn't really matter at this point because we don't really have anything that could copy over other than what you're seeing here. If we wanted to duplicate, that's just going to duplicate the model elements. If we did 'Duplicate with Detailing, ' that's going to be the model elements and any annotations we have, like room tags or dimensions or anything like that.
And we're not using dependent views here, so we don't even have to worry about that one. So I'm just going to pick 'Duplicate' because that's all we need. And this is going to be the view we're going to use to create the existing building.
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And so it makes sense to me, but we'll just go ahead and rename it. And instead of calling it just Level One, we're going to call it Level One, but I'm going to put an existing tag on the front of it. And by tag, I mean, we're just going to add existing, which is this is an abbreviation for existing for Level One.
Now we can do the same thing for Level Two, even though we don't even know what this view looks like, but we're going to use it anyway. We'll go ahead and say duplicate. And then I can rename it using the same nomenclature.
Now, it doesn't really matter how you label these. Honestly, the best thing that you can do is just be consistent. If you wanted to spell out existing instead of just using that abbreviation, works just fine doing it that way as well.
Now that we have the views that we're going to use, we need to take a dive into the world of phasing. And we're going to look at that in our next video.
