Color (Rendering Technique) For Floor Plan/site Plan View

[buzzsaw204]

hi all,

 

is there a way to render the "Plan" view to color using Standard, Vector View,....Painting, WaterColor techniques

WITHOUT using Perspective techniques.??

 

like you can render Elevations with....Standard, Vector View,....Painting, WaterColor

 

thanks,

 

 

 

 

 

[DavidJPotter]

Plan view is by default "Vector" in nature, whereas camera views have the choices of various render techniques. This sort of question comes up from time to time but I suggest that you make it a "suggestion" for future versions in terms of flashier, more Artistic, floor plans. It is merely not the current or past focus of this software (pretty floor plans).

 

DJP

[VHampton]

You could do a 3d view and then use the cross section slider tab to do a slice into the house (from about four feet above finished floor)

 

Then go back to the 3D tab and look for view direction. Select top view.

This will give you a plan view which can be rendered using one of the various rendering options.

 

It's not exactly what you may be looking for...but close.

[Gawdzira]

I do similar but use the orthographic floor overview. I change that to the top view and shoot a watercolor rendering. I sent that to layout and then I modify a layerset to use for a vector view so I can get the lines for windows and doors to show up. I sent that as a vector view and overlay that on the watercolor.

[Alaskan_Son]

Looks nice Alan.

[Chiefer]

The advantage with Val's method is that you can render the plan to any size you want.

[Gawdzira]

Jintu and Val, are you able to do this with an orthographic view. When I try to do this with a perspective view in the "Top View" I do not have a plan view. I have a two point perspective view from birds eye.

[Chiefer]

Yes, it can be been with ortho.

 

 

Here's how:

 

Do not use the perspective view.

 

1. orthographic view tools > ortho floor overview, rotate plan with arrow keys.

 

2. rendering techniques> standard

 

3. raytrace

[Gawdzira]

I was being a bozo and not switching out of vector and trying to use the (then unavailable) cross section slider. Thanks Jintu and Val.