Townhouse Development Presentation

[Limbatus]

Check out this presentation i've been working on for a townhouse development in Newport Beach, CA. We've got our meeting tomorrow, hope it goes well
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I had a few questions about image/ drawing exporting, and i really appreciate it if somebody could offer me some advice.

1. take a look at the sky gradients generated in the perspectives. In some of the views, there is a very distinct horizontal line where the gradient shifts. I exported my images as jpeg. if i select another file type, can i prevent this?

2. I was unhappy with the line quality on the siteplan. I was able to plot very crisp lines straight out of revit, but when i print to pdf and format my boards in InDesign the siteplan gets kind of fuzzy. what should i do differently.

I'm no expert, but i think both problems have to do with my image sampling pdf settings. where can i learn about optimizing pdfs for architectural presentations?

[damon.sidel]

Very nice presentation Limbatus.

If you are formatting in InDesign, you don't have to use PDF. PDFs use the same compression as the JPEG format, which does indeed make lines fuzzy. Instead, you can export to PNG.

JPEG = smallest, compressed and lost info
PNG = not quite smallest, compressed and no lost info
TIF/TARGA = largest, not compressed and no lost info

For presentations, I almost always export to PNG rather than print to PDF unless I'm using a sheet. This will definitely help with the site plan (and the other drawings). I like to use a very high resolution like 5000px wide. However, it will not help with the horizon line in your perspectives. If that is a huge problem, I think your only solution is something like Photoshop.

[Limbatus]

does anybody else get these horizontal lines in sky gradients? im wondering if its software, or my computer that is the culprit.

[damon.sidel]

Sorry, misunderstood your question about the horizontal line. Yes, I get those and have not found a way to get rid of them.

[Norton_cad]

What are your render quality settings?
If set to best (anti alias 8 ), then this should remove the colour gradient.

[cr_gixxer]

How about cleaning them up "post-production" in adobe. Should only take a minute.

[Limbatus]

What are your render quality settings?
If set to best (anti alias 8 ), then this should remove the colour gradient.

i'm not sure if render quality settings apply to realistic shading mode? how do I change these settings?



How about cleaning them up "post-production" in adobe. Should only take a minute.

thats what i ended up doing. photoshop gradients look WAY nicer than the revit ones anyway