stevenyhof

On 8/18/2023 at 3:58 PM, Renerabbitt said:

 

I tried this and all was good until I added a stairs opening. 

I made up this shadow molding to create the illusion of a gab. This is a matter of making up a room type with the Modern, Simple molding

Just having some fun using the Modern, Simple molding with a baseboard and a small lighted molding...

2 hours ago, CAmichael240114 said:

I was designing and building high end residential with this bottom wall negative detail 25 years ago, it was a common detail back then

That's amazing! I thought this was a fairly new design idea.

On 3/14/2024 at 12:19 PM, CharlesVolz said:

I use a 1/2"x1/2" molding in the room molding settings and set it to "black" or "no material". Black is my usual preference. This is the easiest way I found.

I am expanding on this a bit. I am using a molding that creates a shadow and illusion of a gap. 

I added a new Room Type and added this molding for modern homes

Modern Base Library molding and material shadow color

Modern Base.calibz

Use the Modern, Simple molding

Works nice for Constriction Docs and Rendering

With a base board added...

I got a nice google review this morning from a client who uploaded a black and white copy of a 3D image from the construction docs - so I spent 30 minutes copying and pasting some landscaping from another plan, crudely made my dirt landscape spaces next to the house, added a few trees for shadows, used my camera I include in this thread (from my template) and put an HDRi backdrop in. It took me 30 minutes. Could I fuss with more details, of course. As you update materials, save them as your defaults in your template. Each time you draw a new house you have things already in place within your template, including your camera(s). Drop in a backdrop, add your landscaping, bam!

Reach out to Alaskan Son - He has a macro that does what you are talking about.
 

Thank you

Now open the new material and change the Horizontal offset

1 hour ago, Michael_Gia said:

1) watch the video posted by Gawdzira - rendering in Chief is basically photography 101

 

2) your materials on the building are not high enough quality.  
 

3) Your main image is about selling the design. You don’t have to include every square inch of the facade, that’s what the plans and elevations are for.
 

Try to follow a perspective like the attached image…
 

 

(maybe not relevant to the post, but your building violates every fire code in the book)

This is very good. The perspective is viewed as from a car driving by.

Lavina, when viewed from the driveway or lawn, set the camera at about 5' from grade - currently you are standing about 8'ish high. More sky, less ground. Your window reflections are looking really good! As Jim said, move the sun around to help cast more shadow. This is not always the case depending on the look you are after, but shadows can help give more life to a more simple structure. Download PixPlant and start to create your own materials. Better materials as Michael mentioned.

13 minutes ago, Mark3D said:

 

That is very nice to know. I did not know I could access my roof generated moldings. Thank you!

I had put in a request for this during x16 beta. Lets hope that is one of the updates.

4 hours ago, Mark3D said:

another way with freeze return is with auto roof then turn of auto roof unlock roof trim layer and turn molding into wall

Intrigued! Turn molding into wall?  

Thank you, Robert. I am typically very accurate with my roofs. But that miss match is defiantly off. I did copy and past my roof returns, so I guess I just compounded the issue.

While this is a remodel, and the As-Built trim work is not that important, what I have learned is that using roof frieze moldings does not end the boards properly at the gable end of the returns, whereas using a poly molding did work well.

I think this tread will be helpful for those running into trouble with their frieze boards, making them with auto roofs, manual roofs or with moldings. This is a simple model and auto roofs may have been the best approach. However, I do like the molding as in my elevation views, it will show more accurately.

 Existing

 Molding Polyline

 Frieze Boards

Thank you all again for working on this.

Thank you, Mark. I will remember this now as you did make that look pretty easy!

Here is something that did work... 

https://my-plan.stevenyhofdesigns.com/v/34QQgTsVCu9f1YjLnZ8A

Just disconnect the roof returns by 1/2"

Here is what I did with moldings

https://my-plan.stevenyhofdesigns.com/v/Xs3lejs6rcdkHEqAFEw2

I appreciate all your help. Auto roofs do a nice job on the frieze, but not with the roofs the way I want. I'm going to just add a molding.

22 minutes ago, SNestor said:

I believe I fixed it...

I think the dimensions for the moldings on the return roofs did not match the main roof...but honestly, it's been 5 min. and I don't remember. I just beat the darn thing into submission...

 

SND2300 Megan Adams and Josh Husted - As-Built.plan.zip 2.58 MB · 1 download

Thank you, Steve. I will see what you did also and see where I made a mistake. 

21 minutes ago, Mark3D said:

Have you tried with auto roofs it seem to be good for me

I have not tried with auto roofs. Haven't used that in years. I know how to do it. Thank you!

Here is a video showing what I am running into

https://my-plan.stevenyhofdesigns.com/v/aOgdW7Sv2X5mhbYaDdwH

Thank you, I did find that double roof on my plan, but deleting it did not solve it. I do see you have the frieze working on the front of the house, but the back is still off and also on the garage. I will check my returns to make sure I do not have more of them - thank you!

Thank you fellows. I tried making my overhangs a little longer and shorter but that is not helping.

I'll try to DM the link

When I hit the download button it downloads all the files