kainfury

Good day, I was wondering if some of you knew where I could find some CAD plans and elevations for practice. So far, I've only found 2 websites (BullCad and BiblioCad), but unfortunately, most of the plans on these websites are for Indian and South American construction. I would prefer North American or European architecture. Does anyone have good websites to refer? Thank you!

To Mr. Gruhn: Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! That was giving me a headache!! Much appreciated!

Maybe you need to raise the number of steps in the Loft options? Not sure, but maybe it is worth a try!

Hello! I have a problem with ProBooleans. To explain my problem, here is a simple example (look at the images) What I am trying to do is create walls using Lofts, as shown in the 3Dats book (which is amazing, btw). Step 1 (first image) I have created a wall profile, with some vertices along the left edge. These vertices are used to created decorative bands along the wall. I plan to give these bands a different Mat ID later, and apply a sub/multi texture to it. The rectangle is the wall path. Step 2 (2nd image) Here is the Loft result. You can cleary see 3 edges running along the wall, which have been created by the vertices on my wall profile (spline). I plan to put windows between the 2 pales blue bands. Step 3 (3rd image) I have drawn boxes that will be used to create the window openings. The boxes are NOT overlapping the top and bottom edges, but are very close. Step 4 (4th image) I have attached the boxes together, then applied a ProBoolean to my Loft. Here is the problem : As soon as I substract the boxes from the Loft, the edges disappear! No way to get them back! I've tried to collapse the newly created ProBoolean to a Edit Mesh, stil not result. O've tried to collapse it to a Edit Poly, and triangles now appear on my Loft Does someone know how I can do a ProBoolean while keeping the edges on the wall? Thanks in advance! - Jonathan

Ok, thanks! I learn pretty fast by myself, so I might give it a try.

I'll sound like a fool, but what is CGA? Is it this website?

Hi, This question is for all of you 3d gurus: Where did you learn to make 3d elevations and inside renders? Did you learn by yourselves? Did you follow specific courses? If yes, where and what? Thanks, this would help me a lot.

Hey thanks! This is very appreciated. Like I've said, I know I need to improve, and I'll still work on it. Thanks again for your review.

Hi ! I'm new on this forum. I have been learning photoshop by myself for many years now, and I have been able to get a few contracts to make technical floor plans into concept plans for customers. I have never used AutoCad and I am not very familiar with it. Usually, I get the technical floor plans from an architect. These plans have been made with DataCad (which is in the same family as AutoCad I think). I get these plans under a .pdf format. The question is for you guys out there who use AutoCad: Is it normal that sometimes the dimensions are not 100% accurate? For example, the interior walls have to be 4inches wide. However, sometimes when I measure them in Photoshop (by converting the dimensions in piexels) they are, say, 3.7 or 4.2 inches. Is that normal? Also, here is an example of concept plans that I do. I'm still a newbie at this, but I plan to improve my technique to get more contracts. Please give me your opinion on my work. Thanks. PS: Floor plan is only a part of the whole plan. This is just as an example. My outlines have improved since this elevation picture also. I can't publish the lastest elevation I've made beacuse the project is not accepted yet.