Jonny English Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 Does anyone have a good and quick technique for modelling buildings from sketches? I am an Architectural Visualiser who is new to max and come from a CAD (Vectorworks) background. Ideally I'd like to work soley in Max and wondered how people tackle this issue. I would be grateful for your ideas on this subject.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gander0 Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 Hey Jonny If you have a drawing, scan it in then open max. Go to Views > Viewport Background > And select your file as the background source. Check the display background box. This will give you your picture in the background window which you can then draw around. Hope this helps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonny English Posted September 3, 2003 Author Share Posted September 3, 2003 Hi Gander Thanks for your response. I have got that far, but what if I want the sketch to some sort of scale like 1:200. Also what if I wanted to bring in sketches of the plans and also a separate sketch of the section. Any ideas?.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gander0 Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 Sorry just read your post again and realised you were talking about the whole process. I suggest you import Elavations from your CAD Package and Extrude to make walls, otherwise its the laborious process of measuring and plotting elevations using Line and editable spline tools in max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gander0 Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 Hi Gander Thanks for your response. I have got that far, but what if I want the sketch to some sort of scale like 1:200. Also what if I wanted to bring in sketches of the plans and also a separate sketch of the section. Any ideas?.... Hi again, dunno if im helping much. I think units in Max are relative so scale isn't really relevant you would just plot it full size using the measurements you have. You can specify units etc in Customize > Units Setup. And the Grid and snap settings can be usefull. For plans and sections. I would probably bring in a top view in the top viewport and various other views in other viewports. Probably not what your after sorry, wait a while and you'll probably get some decent responses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonny English Posted September 3, 2003 Author Share Posted September 3, 2003 Thanks Gander, I agree it is a chore to draw from sketches but that's life sometimes (I much prefer to get the CAD drawing). THanks for the tip of putting different sketches in different viewports - din't realise you could do that. Lets see if anyone else has some good tips... Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Barbarash Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 I find it easier when actual dimensions must be kept is to do all of the base work in CAD, drawing off of the sketches there, then importing the lines into MAX. This way you have an accurate "sketch" base to work off of. I usually use the imported lines as little more than snap points due to my issues with iported CAD line drawings, never can seem to get the damn things to extrude like I want to... oh well. Good luck! David Barbarash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proces2 Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 when i want to build off of a sketch that is drawn to scale, i will scan it in, vectorize it in Adobe Streamline, save it as a .ai file, and import it into MAX. then in MAX, scale the object(s) up to the real-world 1:1 scale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Barbarash Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 Even though scanned line images are "choppy?" In otherwords, my experience with programs like adobe streamline, corel trace, etc. either don't get the whole line, or takes too much of the ink bleed into the paper and makes extra shapes and lineweights. Usually a cmbo of teh two. how do you get around this if it happens at all to you...??? and this is scanning at hugely high resolutions as well as web resolution... (72-1200dpi) David Barbarash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proces2 Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 the scanned sketch is used exactly as that - a sketch. exactness is not that necessary - that's what translating it into MAX is for - to make it more exact and expand upon it 3-dimensionally. my first step will be to start drawing right on top of the sketch with splines or 3d objects. streamline does fuzz up the sketch a bit - though i try to scan the sketch at as high a resolution as i can to minimize some of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gander0 Posted September 16, 2003 Share Posted September 16, 2003 Hi Jonny. Found this tutorial and thought of you. Very good, stupidly obvious but much better than ive ever got with viewport backgrounds. http://www.gibbageart.com/work.htm Hope this helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonny English Posted September 17, 2003 Author Share Posted September 17, 2003 Thanks Gander, I will check it out. Jonny English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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