Making a DWG show up in rendered site plan

[Davied2]

Yet another question guys n gals - I have searched the forum but can't find an answer.

I have a linked AutoCad Ordnance survey which shows up in all my plans as i wish.

However, I am doing a rendered site plan and am using the trick of creating a new camera view - view orient top - switch off far active clip and render my site plan - brilliant.

But i want the AutoCad DWG to be in the background of my rendered site plan.

Yet again - anyone have any ideas ?

Presentation on monday and it aint going well as the boss seems to be always asking the impossible.

Dave

[archjake]

I have not tired this recently, but you can export your rendering as a JPG. Then bring that Jpg into a plan. Scale it to match the scale of your site plan. Then turn off everything in that view except for the DWG you want displayed. Then set the view as wireframe.

You could also print your site plan to a PDF. Open it, and your rendering in Photoshop and merge the two.

Good luck.

[Davied2]

Jake

Thats pretty much what I have been doing but I am hoping there is a way around it and doing it all in Revit .

Thanks for reply

Dave

[Bryan Sutton]

Another way is to make a jpg or tiff of your site dwg and apply it as a decal to a floor surface on your bottom level (use phases to put it on a future phase so it doesnt appear in your drawings ). When you render it should appear. You might have to make some references to get the dwg/jpg to render aligned to the site plan.
cheers
Bryan Sutton

[jr.78265]

I just tried this approach and it looked ok. (All in Revit)

Create a second floor plan/site view with everything turned off in visibility except the imported/linked AutoCAD dwg.

Dont render this view, just place this dwg view and the captured rendered view it on the same sheet.

Then you'll need to activate the rendered view while on the sheet and resize/move/align it until it is at the same scale as the dwg view.

Cheers,
Jason.