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Black & White Hidden Line Renderings

Posted: January 19th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Short Posts | Tags: , , | 5 Comments »

I like adding 3D views of the major facades on my cover sheets. I first did this about 3 years ago using the sketch rendering engine. I knew it was a good move when in a client meeting we hardly left the cover sheet while discussing the exterior of the house. I use 11_Tech_Pencil and turn down all the noise settings to zero. It makes a nice black and white hidden line rendering.

Today I started playing around with the 3D document. I think I’ll use that to create my black and white hidden line perspectives from now on. It’s very easy to set everything to a uniform thin pen, turn off materials, and tweak the darkness of shadows. The lines are cleaner, the shadows are crisper, I can add some lines or fills fairly easily if I need to do some cheating, and it’s still linked to the model. And perhaps just as important, the view regenerates much much faster than the sketch rendering engine. The sketch rendering engine is great, and I need to find some time to investigate all its other uses. It’s just time to start testing a more appropriate solution for my standard cover page renderings.

 

Sketch Rendering Engine
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5 Comments on “Black & White Hidden Line Renderings”

  1. 1: Srinivas said at 11:30 am on January 20th, 2011:

    The images were not loaded, can you check?or Is that me who is having the problem, tested both on IE and Opera with no luck.

  2. 2: Jared Banks said at 12:28 pm on January 20th, 2011:

    Weird. I had that issue last night for a moment on firefox, but then I reopened my browser and they worked. The images show up on firefox, safari, and IE 8 for me.

  3. 3: Tweets that mention Black & White Hidden Line Renderings | Shoegnome -- Topsy.com said at 3:13 pm on January 20th, 2011:

    [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Apollo Spiliotis and Bev Smith, Jared Banks. Jared Banks said: Very easy way to do nice black and white hidden line renderings in #ArchiCAD http://tinyurl.com/4anzqjs [...]

  4. 4: Srinivas said at 9:21 pm on January 20th, 2011:

    Still no luck, have the problem on IE8 and Opera, when I click on the image it show Page 404 error – http://screencast.com/t/0xKEOydWtnL

  5. 5: Jared Banks said at 8:07 am on January 21st, 2011:

    Sorry about that. I just e-mailed you the images. I’ll look more into this issue this weekend.

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