How to Create Image Fills from ARCHICAD Surfaces!
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2024
- Want to improve the realism of your finish floorplans and reflected ceilings plans? Try adding your 3D Surfaces to Image Fills! This tutorial will show you how, super easy and quick to do. We'll also setup a Graphic Override to make this even easier!
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This kind of thing would be most useful, in my opinion, for the elevation views. Unfortunately I don't think there is an automatic way to do this. I wish there was an option in the elevation setting to to fill uncut surfaces with image fills. Such a setting might not be useful for the construction documentation, but it would make some great elevation views for the customer to see.
Hi Marian. I just tested this and the image fill graphic override I setup in the video, works in elevations and sections as well. All you need to do is setup the override to apply the image fill and it works no problem! There isn't an option in the sections/elevation settings to apply this globally, but with Graphic Overrides it's easy to accomplish
@@CONTRABIM Awesome! I will definitely try it!
Ive got a tiff image of a floor tile I want to recreate as 2D polylines. I try and explode it into current view and it won't work. Any suggestions? Thnx
Hey Erik. You cannot explode a TIFF image file (or any image file) only PDFs. I'd suggest scaling your TIFF it to the right size, and tracing over a single tile or pattern of tiles with LINES or ARCS, copy it, create a new symbol fill, and then paste your lines and ARCS into the fill settings. Polylines won't work for this... But this way you can create a new fill with your custom pattern!
@@CONTRABIM Archicad can only explode PDFs that contain vectorial drawings on them. You might have PDF's that contain rasterized drawings and those won't work either! Basically it will not explode pixels!
is there a way to have the same result in a 3d document? Image fills follow perspective?
Hi Giovanni. Great question. So YES the image fills can be applied to 3D Documents using a Graphic Override, unfortunately, it doesn't follow perspective, meaning the texture fill size is the same close to the camera as far away. It looks much better in AXO actually... Using these image fills is great for flat type views, but when you start introducing depth it is better to render or save a high resolution view, or use the vectorized fills that do follow depth...
@@CONTRABIM thanks for the answer !
In archicad 25, this will not be necessary anymore. That will be a new fill type, that already give you the option of show the surface texture.
Wow, awesome that will be a great enhancement! I'll look forward to seeing how that'll work. Will it pull directly from the surface texture? Thanks for the comment!
@@CONTRABIM Exactly! The way you configure it on the Surface, it will appear on the floor plan. And in the cuts and facades you will also have the option to display the texture.
@@viniciuslima4174 That's going to be great. Thanks for the insight I havn't even looked at 25 improvements yet...
Am I right in thinking that you can't use image fills for cut fills?
Yes you're correct on that, the image fill isn't an available option for cut fills. Even with Graphic Overrides once you check the cut fill, the image fill options go away... Thanks for the question!
@@CONTRABIM I wonder why they made that decision - it would be nice to be able to use image fills for more illustrative sections and plans. Ah well, maybe in version 27.