HOW TO MODEL WALLS IN 3DS MAX

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Most of the time, a project starts with receiving CAD drawings from the client. because it usually is, the CAD file is just too complicated and filled with uselessness, like dimensions, labels, and other elements that don’t interest us now. So we've to wash up the drawing and leave only things that we'll need for modeling – walls, windows, doors and perhaps furniture for later modeling. Another important thing is to urge obviate unused layers, and also put each a part of drawing into the various layers as you'll see within the image below. therefore the ground floor should be in one layer, section A in another one, etc.

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When your plans and sections are ready, you've got to place them into 3ds Max. First, open 3ds Max and set your units consistent with the AutoCAD file that you simply want to import (Customize->Units Setup). then , let’s click on File->Import and choose your .dwg file. In Import window you'll see several options, where you'll select units of imported file, geometry options, layer options, or what elements does one want or don't want to import. The important thing here is to pick the proper units that you simply utilized in AutoCAD – in my case it had been millimeters, so I just leave millimeters in Incoming File Units box and check „Rescale“ box. Then just click on Import.

As you'll see, 3ds Max created separate objects consistent with layers set in AutoCAD – so in our case floor plan, and both sections are in separate objects. subsequent thing to try is to maneuver each object (drawing) into the proper place. to form it easier, activate Snap angle function and Snap Toggle. Then right-click on the Snap Toggle button and confirm you've got selected Endpoint and Vertex in Snaps bookmark and „Enable Axis Constraints“ in Options bookmark to make sure moving on selected axis only. Now close the window and let’s rotate sections around 90 degrees to possess better control when modeling. make certain to put every a part of drawing within the right place and to possess the peak of the ground on an equivalent level – Snap function is basically helpful here.

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When we have everything within the right place, we will finally start by modeling the wall. I acknowledged that the plane is that the most used primitive object when modeling all types of shapes, even square or round ones. Because the wall we are getting to create isn’t an exception, we start with creating the plane within the corner of the wall.

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The plane itself isn’t very useful, so we've to convert it into Editable Poly. then , we will work with it and make whatever form we would like . After the conversion, we've to pick a foothold and extend it. There are few ways to try it, but the foremost efficient one is to carry Shift and drag it with the left push button until the closest corner or fringe of the window/doors. roll in the hay round the whole floor plan to make our basement for the wall, but concentrate to end every extension on the intersections of the floor plan.

[James Vella]

I recommend Pixamoons DWG copy/paste tool, it can remove labels, paste in as a single object, scale to your scene and remove all hatches, move to 0,0,0 etc from the dwg in 1 button, saves a lot of time in prep stage. Then do as you said by snap/align front/side/etc in 3dsmax. If they dwgs are in the correct position in CAD then you can disable the move to 0,0,0 and have them come in properly aligned without the need to snap/move/rotate.

 

I prefer creating walls with spline/sweep. This way you can trace the outside wall and sweep with consistent thickness of 230mm plus internal ceiling height of 2700 or whatever your measurements are. you can duplicate this, remove sweep and extrude down/up for ceiling and floor. you can then duplicate again and change the sweep to 90mm for the internal walls. If you drew your internal line the wrong way you can always click reverse and it will flip the other way to suit the shape. 

 

Using this process you can build quite fast and should take no more than an hour or two to build the first 2 floors from prep to built with auto uv's from the sweep, usually after that lots of floors are either duplicated or you can just adjust the top few floors to suit. 

 

Edited December 2, 2020 by James Vella