detial dwg in max

[RAYMOND]

i am interested in doing detail drawings in max:D

 

recently we have providing a lot of details with perspective views

in addition to the common (but boring) orthographic views.

 

the perspective with rendered parts and some semi transparency greatly

enhances the understanding of the detail... which i believe will become more usefull to the construction people

 

anyway, any seasoned hunters out there...

[Ricardo Eloy]

Didn't get it. What do you want to know?

[AJLynn]

I'd recommend first getting very good at poly modeling of details (in Autocad, Max, whatever - I do it occasionally in Sketchup) then developing a style. "Toon" effects and Photoshop compositing can work well. Things like finalToon or as simple as mental ray's Contour shader or Max's Ink&Paint are worth a try.

 

If you're going to print full-color supplements, you might as well go for full-on GI, but if you want to include them on your detail sheets and you're printing using a B&W laser plotter and having them copied in B&W, make it as simple as you can while staying descriptive, like people used to do in axo/iso with pencils/pens in linework only, simple shading, crosshatch or stipple. (Stipple and crosshatch photocopy better than shading, and you can stipple using AO with a low number of samples.)

 

Have a look at Architectural Detailing by Ed Allen. I haven't seen the new edition, but at least the old one with the Allen/Iano illustrations has some good examples.