NPR Site Plan Lines

[Sawyer]

This is sort of a lame duck question as it has nothing to do with rendering stuff.

 

Client wants the cad drawn site plan to look hand drawn. No coloring or "graphics" just a cad site plan looking hand drawn. The idea is that while the plan is finished the developer is afraid that showing the neighbors a finished plan will get them upset. If we shown them something a bit "softer" they may not get as mad. I won't really defend that logic.

 

I tried Sketchup and while I like it is seems a bit of information is being lost in the conversion.

 

Any good ideas out there?

[jucaro]

You can try and use distortion and diffusion filters.

[Sawyer]

Jucaro- have you been able to get a good effect in photoshop for just lines? I can get a look I like for an NPR like image but only with images not line drawings.

 

If you have been able to get a good look please let me know how you did or at least a hint.

 

Regardless thanks for the reply.

[Chad Warner]

The other option would be to use squiggle..I'm not sure of the website, or your budget, but it's whole purpose is to make CAD drawings appear hand drawn.

 

-Chad

[STRAT]

ask Ernest, he's an NPR diva

[Tim Nelson]

If you have acad 2004, there should be a feature that will turn your linework into the sketchlook. I tried it once before in ADT 2004, but hopefully its also in the regular version

[STRAT]

Originally posted by Timmatron:

If you have acad 2004, there should be a feature that will turn your linework into the sketchlook. I tried it once before in ADT 2004, but hopefully its also in the regular version

can you tell me what function that is? only i use ADT 4 and havent yet come across that. may be usefull

[Sawyer]

Chad Warner - Thank you for the tip that is what I was looking for.

 

Timmatron - I do have 2004 and I have not run across anything like that yet. Please hook me up if you have any info.

[jucaro]

Hi sawyer, is this the kind of effect you are looking for? I can also achieve a 'sign pen on table napkin drawing' look if you want. :ebiggrin:

NPR PLAN (235 KB 1024X1024 image)

[Tim Nelson]

Hope this helps you to find it. Again, not sure if Autocad 2004 has it but ADT 2004 definitely does. Its under the content browser. Here's a screenshot of the menu and also a quick example of a sketch from a floorplan I did. It's got a few basic options that you can play with.

 

 

 

good luck Sawyer!

Tim

[Robin]

Try ArchiCAD with ArchiSketchy plug-in

[jucaro]

For those who dont have ADT, here's the "napkin drawing" look by using 2 overlayed glass distortion filters in photoshop.

 

[Ernest Burden III]

From within most CAD programs, you can use a wiggley linestyle--there is one called 'squiggle' I think, available for AutoCAD. And if ACAD offers it, just use 'line overshoot'. In Datacad, this feature will display lines extended by an amount you set, say, 6", on a site plan you would want more like 18". This look exports perfectly to a vector PDF file, or can be rasterized into Photoshop. Datacad does NOT have a randomizing tag for the overshhot, so I used to use several values for different line colors.

 

You can see what that looks like in :

 

my antique tutorial on hybrid rendering

 

the images are not very big, now that I look at it again.

 

But the point is, I would suggest doing hand-drawn lines in your CAD program. You can also do it by filtering in PS, of course, which is what I do now.