HDbyJustin Posted Friday at 11:41 PM Share Posted Friday at 11:41 PM I swap between Revit and CA, depending on whether I am at my full time job or my side hustle. One thing I do in Revit is to add some shadows to the floor plan views. It looks great when printed. What is the easiest way to do this in CA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHCanada2 Posted Saturday at 03:35 AM Share Posted Saturday at 03:35 AM You can add shadows for specified days and times. Essentially a show study https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/5320/sun-angle-and-plan-view-shadows.html?playlist=97 it creates polyline, so I assume you could change the fill to be a semitransparent grey, and get rid of the pline line, and it would be similar? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHCanada2 Posted Sunday at 05:52 AM Share Posted Sunday at 05:52 AM not sure why i got a down vote. Perhaps what it looks like in revit might help someone find a solution Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug_N Posted Sunday at 11:07 AM Share Posted Sunday at 11:07 AM 5 hours ago, SHCanada2 said: not sure why i got a down vote. Perhaps what it looks like in revit might help someone find a solution I just gave you an upvote to balance out the downvote. I can't see any reason for the downvote, but people are different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael_Gia Posted Sunday at 02:39 PM Share Posted Sunday at 02:39 PM 8 hours ago, SHCanada2 said: not sure why i got a down vote. Perhaps what it looks like in revit might help someone find a solution OP was asking for shadows in floorplan view, not a sun study. In Chief you can do something similar in an orthographic 3D overview. OP was looking for something like a drop shadow effect like in Photoshop. Feel better now? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHCanada2 Posted Sunday at 03:31 PM Share Posted Sunday at 03:31 PM I don't use photo shop so I don't know what that effect is. ... a picture is worth a thousand words 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBCooper Posted yesterday at 08:19 PM Share Posted yesterday at 08:19 PM As Jason suggested, you can create a sun angle in your plan and use the "make shadow" tool to build a polyline that matches the shadow. Changing the fill style to a semi-transparent solid grey can give you something like this: Note that this is only going to give you a shadow for your walls and roofs and does not look at any other objects (AFAIK). You could also create your own "shadow" polylines and draw them however you like though. As Michael suggested, you can also create a top down orthographic overview and then turn on shadows. This view will show all shadows and it can use a wide variety of rendering techniques and options. Much harder to show things like dimensions, text, and cad. Below is just one very simple example: Would need to know more about exactly what you are looking for to give you any more suggestions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisb222 Posted yesterday at 09:43 PM Share Posted yesterday at 09:43 PM On 3/21/2025 at 7:41 PM, HDbyJustin said: add some shadows to the floor plan views As mentioned, need to know more about what you're after, but several options exist: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHCanada2 Posted yesterday at 09:55 PM Share Posted yesterday at 09:55 PM careful, you might get a downvote 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisb222 Posted yesterday at 10:14 PM Share Posted yesterday at 10:14 PM 18 minutes ago, SHCanada2 said: careful, you might get a downvote Badge of honor! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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