same site, different software

[Max Lloyd]

Hello again.

Just thought I would throw this in the mix. Its one of the buildings off my current site, taken into sketchup for the purpose of presentation.

I have made a little movie file (can't post the proper one its too big) but for those of you yet to discover the awesome ability to do flythroughs etc using the page command in sketchup, check this out. Took about half an hour from importing from revit.

Great stuff.

(had to zip the file to post it)

[ejburrell67787]

Hey that is good fun...! Is the animated section/plan cutting a feature of sketchup or is that possible in Revit? I would like to experiment with that if it is in Revit.

I can imagine this kind of thing going down exceptionally well in student presentations.... so apart from having a load of fun, is this kind on animation useful to your work? I can see commercial clients might like it for promotional displays perhaps...

the plans are nicely presented too... perhaps to clean and toy-ish for many architects, but the planners must like them!

Elrond

[Roger Evans]

Clever B*gg*r

What size is the original file ?

[Max Lloyd]

Hi Elrond. The sectional cut away is all done in sketchup. As you probably know, revit can do perspective cutaways, not sure if you can actually animate them though? Commercially viable? Good question. I have an acer tablet laptop which I use in meetings and like to show clients movie files and pan files (direct from revit). I find anything that helps the clients visualise your design intent, especially early in the design process, the less trouble later on. Plus I just like doing them!
Plans are a bit too toy-townish even for my liking. Mainly the trees that do that. Yet to find a good series of trees and hedges etc to use.

Thanks Roger, original file size is about 50mb and includes opening titles, credits etc. Again, a bit of fun really but the clients do like it.

I would like to get into doing movies more for marketing purposes. Seems like the natural progression seeing as how we do the planning, then technical drawings. I envisage a site plan where you can zoom into any phase, then say apartment building, then say into a specific apartment a buyer may be interested in. Hell of a lot of video required. Eventually there would be a touch screen monitor set up in the sales suite where potential buyers can access any unit on the scheme.

[Les Therrien]

That is cool. Thanks for sharing.
I think I need to look into Sketchup further now!
How much are you co$ting me. ;-)

[ejburrell67787]

OK Max... and *Damn!* I was hoping it was Revit!

Yeah communicating design intent is very useful, I see your point.

Thanks for sharing!

Elrond

[Max Lloyd]

You got me thinking about sectional cut aways in revit. Sure looks nice rendered.....

[SkiSouth]

Good stuff Max.

The brick in your rendered section look larger that the modular brick in the states (which are nominal 4"x 8" with 3 courses height normally = 8").

How big are brick in the UK?

[Max Lloyd]

You're not the first to have noticed. Damn I'm going to get shot if I don't sort that out!

Brick size here is the same (in mm 215, 102.5, 65)

[ejburrell67787]

Looks good! I'm a fan of rendered sectional views like that! :-D

Elrond

PS is the red section plane carrying on the seasonal theme of your avatar? ;)

[SkiSouth]

You're not the first to have noticed. Damn I'm going to get shot if I don't sort that out!

Brick size here is the same (in mm 215, 102.5, 65)

No big deal. Depends on your map file you are using for the brick. Go to your material definition for the brick material, change the display model to be the 18" cube. count the bricks that show on a face. If the brick count is not correct for the 18" cube (or larger depending on just how accurate you need the muliplier to be), change the multiplication factor. Usually the Y factor will follow properly if X factor is correct. If it doesn't, simply change the Y factor multiplier also.

[Max Lloyd]

Its odd as I had altered it previously, it seems to have jumped back? Maybe when I reloaded version 7 upon receipt of the cd?

[SkiSouth]

Depends, I would assume if you had the exact same material name and are referencing a new (R7) library, yes the original (CD version) would be what Accurender is loading. One of my pet peeves about "updates" is having to reload and define all the material file locations for the program (I CANT STAND the default Microsoft location on C drive for the user documents etc (Performance issues ))

Anyway, check your library. If the original brick is under 6.1 or an early 7.0, you could change the paths the renderer uses to see if that would affect the brick pattern. (It should) - or create a second brick, using the old pattern library brick (rename it) and include the old pattern library in the path of the renderer. Might be able to test it there. Be interested to know what you deteremine.