cyberderf Posted September 29, 2003 Share Posted September 29, 2003 What is your prefered technique to add color from those pdf or .eps plotted autocad plan (and especially urban and large scale plans) ? Paint, pshop, illustrator ? I am looking for the best and fastest way to do it. Any suggestio would be appreciated ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xgarcia Posted September 29, 2003 Share Posted September 29, 2003 By far photoshop - weel at least I'm most comfortable using it. Magic wand is extremely helpful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEVIANS Cedric Architect Posted September 29, 2003 Share Posted September 29, 2003 here.. we use.. illustrator ... but photoshop too .. depend time and retouch .. :gebigeek: :???: :ebigrazz: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Vestal Posted September 29, 2003 Share Posted September 29, 2003 autocad to illustrator to photoshop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbr Posted September 29, 2003 Share Posted September 29, 2003 Use the Smart Guides in illustrator, it will allow you to snap to the lines. Illustrator is nice because you can change colors and line quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyberderf Posted September 30, 2003 Author Share Posted September 30, 2003 Thanks all Using Illustrator for me has been a great source of nightmares. Files quickly becomes huge and hard to handle. Selecting some areas is very difficult. And finally, layers in Illustration is a solution to faster the process, but it was not so easy for me to get used to them. Photoshop is ok, but i'm still looking for a way to add ''life'' to the thing. Anyone having succes using Paint or some other specialized software like M-Color ? Any technique with Photoshop you would like to share ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Cassil Posted September 30, 2003 Share Posted September 30, 2003 We actually use something called Canvas. Published by a company called Deneba. But man, do I hate that program. The President of our company loves it though because he can do bubble diagrams to scale in it. But let me just say again how much I hate that program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fernando Lino Posted September 30, 2003 Share Posted September 30, 2003 Hi everyone. I also hate Canvas ....yesterday, I downloaded Freehand trial version(30 days-by Macromedia) and It is pretty cool for me.....It's like Illustrator but much better and easier to use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sawyer Posted September 30, 2003 Share Posted September 30, 2003 I would love to see posts to this section. I do a bit of work like this & I have yet to create much that wows me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Jeff Mottle Posted September 30, 2003 Administrators Share Posted September 30, 2003 It's like Illustrator but much better and easier to use it.I have wanted to use Freehand, but ended up having to buy Illustrator because Freehand has MAJOR problems importing EPS files properly. If you are thinking of trying FH be sure to test with the trial first. It's a largely known problem that FH can not read EPS file correctly. Depends how you plan to export from you CAD package however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jorbu Posted September 30, 2003 Share Posted September 30, 2003 We just downloaded the trial version of M-Color in our office and will be giving it a try. I don't know how user friendly it is. Has anyone else used this software? http://www.motivesys.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh1587140445 Posted September 30, 2003 Share Posted September 30, 2003 I have successfully used Paint Shop Pro if you are going with the cheap route. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kid Posted September 30, 2003 Share Posted September 30, 2003 I use Illustrator and/or photoshop usually because I collage in photographs aswell as colour. If it's just flat fills of colour don't forget, autocad has colours too. Fill an area with a solid hatch colour, using DRAWORDER send the colour hatch to the back (so it doesn't print over the linework), then set the colour to print in that colour instead of black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Nelson Posted September 30, 2003 Share Posted September 30, 2003 I use Photoshop 7 because...well because its the only way I know how to do it. But thats besides the point. I also like it because it has the 'pattern maker' feature, whis is great for creating tileable textures that you can paint with. So all I've done for my plan view sites is to make a few good patterns like gravel, grass, concrete, asphalt, etc. Then I just magic wand everything and brush within the lines. Put everything on seperate layers, put in some fake shadows w/ transparency and you are set! The nice part is you can still print plans like that to scale if you need to. Best of both worlds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyberderf Posted October 1, 2003 Author Share Posted October 1, 2003 Originally posted by choochee: We use our render program to get it than re-touch it with photoshop. Need examples? Sure ! Everyone here could post some sample of what they done using specific programs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kid Posted October 1, 2003 Share Posted October 1, 2003 Here's an example done in Illustrator. It's an axon of the floor plan, the linework of which was exported from Rhino. lower plan pdf (177k) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Erthal Posted October 1, 2003 Share Posted October 1, 2003 Here's some of the work made here in ARCHIGRAPH, believe it or not, it was done in CorelDraw. http://www.cgarchitect.com/forum/filepush.asp?file=01_3.jpg http://www.cgarchitect.com/forum/filepush.asp?file=08.jpg http://www.cgarchitect.com/forum/filepush.asp?file=01a.jpg http://www.cgarchitect.com/forum/filepush.asp?file=05a.jpg http://www.cgarchitect.com/forum/filepush.asp?file=03b.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Erthal Posted October 1, 2003 Share Posted October 1, 2003 Btw, You can check out for more at www.archigraph.com.br [] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choochee Posted October 1, 2003 Share Posted October 1, 2003 We use our render program to get it than re-touch it with photoshop. Need examples? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ingo Posted October 1, 2003 Share Posted October 1, 2003 Speaking for my clients, they use their CAD software for that task of course. Why should they use Freehand or Canvas for that ? Just my 2 cents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigcahunak Posted October 1, 2003 Share Posted October 1, 2003 Photoshop is could work nice for the workflow part of it - magicwand, new layer, fill - easy to change colors later. However it depends what you want to do with it later on. With Illustrator or Freehand (which I like better) it stays a vector file, while Photoshop will raster it and increase its file size dramatically. BTW: we use ACAD for it (what happens when the design changes? - export again to EPS/PDF...), but I think smart objects cad progs like Revit, ADT or Archicad should be able to print sections as solid color fill. Am I right here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halt Posted October 4, 2003 Share Posted October 4, 2003 ...first post ever to cgarch I think...cool portal... ...makin' me want to be a cg artist which I ain't. I've found a unique (secret) way to add color to an AutoCAD drawing using Flash. It's quick and easy but there is a limitation - no line thicknesses from AutoCAD. The cool thing is that it's not a bitmap. It retains some of it's raster properties and adding color under the CAD file works great. Any interest in this? If so here's how; in AutoCAD it's the command 'wmfout'. First you need to prepare the drawing in AutoCAD. To create a traditional black-line-on-white-paper drawing change the background color to white and the all lines to black. Then type wmfout, select all the entities and save it as file. Then import the wmf file into Flash. In Flash put the wmf file on a separate layer and lock it. Create a new layer underneath the AutoCAD layer. Add color using the easy Flash drawing tools. It's pretty cool and can be exported at highres. Works with Word and Freehand too. Hope that all makes sense to someone out there. ...probably too long a post...i'll work on that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halt Posted October 4, 2003 Share Posted October 4, 2003 ...first post ever to cgarch I think...cool portal... ...makin' me want to be a cg artist which I ain't. I've found a unique (secret) way to add color to an AutoCAD drawing using Flash. It's quick and easy but there is a limitation - no line thicknesses from AutoCAD. The cool thing is that it's not a bitmap. It retains some of it's raster properties and adding color under the CAD file works great. Any interest in this? If so here's how; in AutoCAD it's the command 'wmfout'. First you need to prepare the drawing in AutoCAD. To create a traditional black-line-on-white-paper drawing change the background color to white and the all lines to black. Then type wmfout, select all the entities and save it as file. Then import the wmf file into Flash. In Flash put the wmf file on a separate layer and lock it. Create a new layer underneath the AutoCAD layer. Add color using the easy Flash drawing tools. It's pretty cool and can be exported at highres. Works with Word and Freehand too. Hope that all makes sense to someone out there. ...probably too long a post...i'll work on that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard McCarthy Posted October 5, 2003 Share Posted October 5, 2003 Yeh, Revit can do colour plan easily Infact, it's one of it's strong point for analysis. Check it out at www.autodesk.com/revit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerry Thompson Posted October 6, 2003 Share Posted October 6, 2003 Hi AutoCAD 2004 also supports colour fills and gradient fills, things you needed Photoshop for in pre 2004. To my knowledge, AutoCAD 2004 does not support any patterning or textures except by linking to a raster image and clipping it around the areas to be filled. Kerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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