ArchiCAD Tutorial | 3D Pictures and Sculptures

Опубликовано: 03 Октябрь 2024
на канале: ARCHICAD Tutorials by Eric Bobrow

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Learn how to place 3D pictures, paintings and sculptures into your model in this ArchiCAD video tutorial excerpted from the Best Practices Course - http://www.acbestpractices.com.

This tutorial was inspired by a question was sent to me recently by Steve Nickel of Colorado.

Steve had seen a post by Jared Banks that featured an art exhibition in Sweden that used Graphisoft's powerful BIMx tool to allow website visitors to explore an art show.

Steve asked me how to place artwork and sculptures in his models, and how to find image files he could use for this purpose.

In this 46 minute ArchiCAD video tutorial, I show how to find and use the 3D Picture object in the standard ArchiCAD library to put in any picture or painting you wish.

We examine options such as changing the size, tilt angle and frame, including making it frameless.This picture object can even be used to place a carpet on the floor!

If you want to place fine art into your model, I show how to find image files through a Google search, and how to locate images that are legally licensed for you to use (you won't have to worry about copyright).

Then, through a series of steps, I develop the technical foundations for creating cutout images for simple portrayal of sculptures as well as human figures.

We look at:

- Photoshop masking to silhouette the foreground image from the background
- Creation of an "empty" totally transparent Surface / Material for use with the background
- Making a new Surface / Material from an image, and setting the texture origin
- Several different ways to make a polygon cutout shape in a vertical orientation

I hope you enjoy this ArchiCAD tutorial and find it useful. I look forward to your feedback.

PLEASE add your comments and questions on this YouTube video page.

Enjoy!
Eric

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