Marketing Floor plans

[dshall]

Check out this prior thread (post #7) where Charles was able to do a remarkable floorplan all in Chief.

http://chieftalk.com/showthread.php?...render+overlay

Len, without a doubt this is the best I have seen to date done in CA. A question I would have for Charles is how did he show the openings if he was simply using an overhead floor camera..... did he use the cross section slider to get the slice lower. I did play around with changing the default ceiling ht. to 6'0" which gave me an overhead ortho view with door and windows showing but I could not get near the quality that Charles shows.

[dshall]

Okay guys, here is a link to a video, not perfect but not too bad either.

http://www.chieftalk.com/showthread....088#post416088

[Thane Pearson]

10 minutes using transparent boxes

[Grantbd]

10 minutes using transparent boxes

Good Thane. I did the same using boxes with solid colours and custom fills.

[billemery]

I think this shows some potential here. I've used a live floor plan sent to layout, and an image of the furniture, fixtures, cabinets and appliances also sent to layout.

It can be done easily, and addresses most of the issues of the original query.

[Grantbd]

I think this shows some potential here. I've used a live floor plan sent to layout, and an image of the furniture, fixtures, cabinets and appliances to layout.

It can be done easily, and addresses most of the issues of the original query.

Brilliant Bill. I agree. Perfect

[alexsl]

Okay guys, here is a link to a video, not perfect but not too bad either.

http://www.chieftalk.com/showthread....088#post416088

Scott, that is a clever idea to adjust the cutting plane for orthographic floor view by changing the ceiling height. Though I did it a little differently; I didn’t display walls (and doors and windows) in the vector render view (in orthographic floor view). I left walls, doors and windows displayed in the floor plan, only. It came out all right…

Good job everybody...

[sutcac]

Bill, you still gotta go through and make sure all your symbols have No/Transparent Fill on your 2D blocks, right?

[dshall]

Scott, that is a clever idea to adjust the cutting plane for orthographic floor view by changing the ceiling height. Though I did it a little differently; I didn’t display walls (and doors and windows) in the vector render view (in orthographic floor view). I left walls, doors and windows displayed in the floor plan, only. It came out all right…

Good job everybody...

Alex, you are always one upping me, nice job, your way is even better, thanks for sharing.

[Grantbd]

I think this shows some potential here. I've used a live floor plan sent to layout, and an image of the furniture, fixtures, cabinets and appliances also sent to layout.

It can be done easily, and addresses most of the issues of the original query.

Bill, also, export 3d ortho images to jpg and import them back into plan. What an xcellent thread this is!

[billemery]

Grant,
Thanks for the compliment, and the additional suggestion.
Bryce,
I just turned off the furniture, appliance, fixture layers on the floor plan that is sent to layout so they don't compete with the image.

[sutcac]

That makes sense. Like the OP said, it's mostly just being able to do the text and door swing arcs, etc.

[lbuttery]

see post #11 in this thread:
http://www.chieftalk.com/showthread....light=brochure

I like how my partner Joe added the blue water to the sinks

but that was done in Paint Shop Pro

next time we will try to do it in chief

we also didn't show the furniture - but will the next time

Lew

[alexsl]

Alex, you are always one upping me, nice job, your way is even better, thanks for sharing.

You are welcome, Scott.

Bill also came out with a very similar method. I thought of it after watching your videos this morning.

For sure an excellent thread with plenty of ideas and inputs…

[WendyWelton]

I think this shows some potential here. I've used a live floor plan sent to layout, and an image of the furniture, fixtures, cabinets and appliances also sent to layout.

It can be done easily, and addresses most of the issues of the original query.

And you guys do know you can put a colored fill in a room also, right?