Creating a building in 3d max from an AutoCAD DWG

[Dave Buckley]

Hi guys, i know this has been covered before but here goes . . .

 

i have a client who has sent me drawings, floor plans, sections, elevations, site plans.

 

they currently use Autocad but are now looking into visualisation and 3d etc. I need to know how to get from an imported dwg in Max, to a finished 3d model (all done in max/viz) i have followed Brian Smiths help on this site, but that just gives tutorials for creating site plans from drawings, i need to know how to model the building also from these drawings. could any1 give a brief step-bystep methodology that they would use???

 

e.g.

 

get drawing off client

 

clean drawing

 

import into max

 

 

and now where do i go from here?????

[amangupta79]

Well that is pretty much how its done...but here is how i go about it to be exact..in Autocad just trace out the stuff u need to generate the 3d model like walls, floors, lintels, ceiling, windows doors etc as simple closed splines each on a respective layer. then import only these ones into ur max interface. this ensures u dont clutter up ur scene file with unwanted stuff..then pick each layer and extrude and adjust it piece by piece refering to the elevations & sections at the same time for heights and misc. details..in some cases eg--when you need to make windows or some special elevations feature..tracing on top of the elevation in Acad works much faster..its pretty much like working in tandom with plans and elevations to get the 3d model up..hope this helps..

 

cheers

[Dave Buckley]

would it not be easier to use a program like revit architecture to recreate the plans and then just export the model from that into viz/max for tecturing and lighting

[ctk111]

would it not be easier to use a program like revit architecture to recreate the plans and then just export the model from that into viz/max for tecturing and lighting

 

That decision is entirely up to you. It depends on how much experience you have with Max or Revit and what work flow you're comfortable with. If you're familiar with how to model in revit as opposed to max then begin to examine that process and see if it works for you. There are some threads that discuss importing revit models into max. Just do a search.