Bret Bullough Posted April 12, 2004 Share Posted April 12, 2004 Does anyone know of a good way to ceate 2d line drawings from a max file? I need them to be to scale, and hidden line. I'm trying to create interior elevations from a model. TIA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Warner Posted April 12, 2004 Share Posted April 12, 2004 You would need to get a plugin like illustrate or final toon to get the hidden line look. Unfortunately, you can't really render to a specific scale, (at least not that I know of)but you could bring in the 2d image into autocad and scale it that way. -Chad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eagle Posted April 12, 2004 Share Posted April 12, 2004 if you want to output it at a specific scale, you can draw a rectangle about the same size as your output in viz, for example, if it's 1:100, and your output is 40cmx50cm, just draw a 40mx50m rectangle in viz put it in front of the elevation and make an outside outline turn it into mesh to make it renderable. then render the view. load the rendered image in photoshop, select only the inside of the 40mx50m square and crop it. set up the image size to 40cmx50cm(you may need to resample if the resolution is less than 200dpi), you 'll get a real 1:100 image. you can resample to what ever scale you want based on this image. if you want a 1:200 image, resize the image to 20cmx25cm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Matthews Posted April 17, 2004 Share Posted April 17, 2004 Do you have access to Form Z? You can cut setions and plans from a 3d model, and save them as 2d line drawings. Then fix them up in cad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bret Bullough Posted April 20, 2004 Author Share Posted April 20, 2004 Yes, Saturn I do have Form-Z, can you give a quick workflow outline. how to do this? Also, what is the best way to export from Viz to FRM-Z? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abicalho Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 Just use the Section Spline object. It cuts your 3d model and creates splines from it. You can then export to DWG, DXF, AI, etc. Alexander Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCleaner Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Im desperate for something to do this for me! This is where sketchup truely shows its power as a building modeller. The snap tools are efficient and easy, and you can generate line drawings with high detail as if it were a snapshot. I suggest you export your file as a 3ds, and import it into sketchup, then use the section plane tool, then export>2d dwg, sorted. It wont be 100% clean, but still very good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricardo Eloy Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Just use the Section Spline object. It cuts your 3d model and creates splines from it. You can then export to DWG, DXF, AI, etc. Alexander Look who's back! Anyway, I'd go for Alex's tip. The Section object is easy and will just do the trick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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