How To: Quick 3D Details!

[beegee]

No, you need 7.0 to do this properly.

Yes, I am using a compounded wall (many layers, and yes I am working on 6.1. Is it not doable in 6.1??

[Scott D Davis]

In 6.1, it will only show in shaded view mode.

[gallienhanson]

We'll take that one to the bank! we do a lot of details around here. Thanks Scott!

[snurresprett9]

Very useful! But how do I hide the section box from the view???

[hand471037]

Very useful! But how do I hide the section box from the view???

Under the View Properties, turn off 'show crop region'. It's non-obvious, but this turns off the visibility of *both* the Crop Region and the Section Box...

This also works great for Unit Plans. We take the callout for the Unit Plan, Orient the 3D view to that, rotate it to the Axon view, and adjust the Section Box to just under the ceiling & add shadows. It makes for quick and easy and great looking Unit Plans in Schematics...

[raeburnmark]

Nice tutorial.
I have taken this a little further and tried applying this methodology to generate a 3D building section. It works great. I'm still learning, is this the best way to accomplish this?

Also, how do I change the color of the cut planes.

Thanks, Mark

[beegee]

To control the display of the poche region with a section box - perspective feature.

Set the view resolution to coarse and the color is controlled by the POCHE material under the SETTINGS/MATERIALS menu. The Coarse Poche Material is a type parameter of 3D View

>>Also, how do I change the color of the cut planes.

Thanks, Mark

[fkremkus]

Yeah, it's nice! You can also take a shortcut and skip creating the section - just turn on the section box and make it really small. This way, you can also make a perspective detail.

This is great.
Is there also a way to make this a real perspective projection rather than isometric. I tried the orient to view command, changing the camera.....
but Revit 7, does not allow me to change the camera from isometric to
a perspective view once the view is generated.

Maybe I am missing a step.

Thanks in advance.

Fabian

[beegee]

No you aren't missing anything.

You can change from a perspective view to an iso view, but not vice vera.

A workaround I've sometimes used is to show the camera, then hover the cursor over the camera's position, the hit DL (for Detail Line ), the draw lines to loacte the camera ( would be nice if Revit allowed the camera location to be marked ) then you can set up a new perspective view from the same location.

[jamesd10181097]

Is there a way to export a 3D view to dwg but keep it 2D. I only ask this because this is great to generate an isolated detail, but it would be fantastic to generate a typical detail of it. You could work up this detail then export to 2D linework and inport it as a typical detail. that way you would not have to setup all this from scratch on every project it is used in.