Hello,
I am working on a campus development plan. I am using a 3d top view to show the entire campus existing buildings,drives and parking layouts as well as our new modeled building. This is at a 1”=50’ scale everything shows up great in realistic view without having to render showing the necessary shadows and colors of the existing and new modeled buildings. That is after I modeled the roofs on the existing buildings the mass objects, I wanted to use for the existing would not show a shadow unless you clicked on the mass then they would shadow, but when you unclicked they would not show or print shadows might be a bug. I used a civil.dwg 2d for the existing layout as an underlay, this shows up in realistic view but not if you render.
The main problem are the trees in realistic view, what is the best way to get a top view of a reasonable outline of a tree with a shadow? I have great looking shadows but no tree with the stock tree elements.
All suggestions and help will be appreciated.
James
You would need to have a family with a decal on the top of it that looked like the tree in plan, then it would look good.
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SCOTT D, BROWN, AIA | Project Coordinator, Director of Building Information Technology | HHCP.com
Hey Scott,
Thanks for the response. I am using the stock RPC Deciduous tree. I am not familiar with the term decal in Revit. I think I understand what you are saying, but have not been able so far to accomplish this. On the site plan level the deciduous tree shows a circle with several radius lines which represents the overall diameter of the tree and the limbs of the tree. I copied this deciduous base
circle and added the Height parameter so it would always be at the top of the tree. It shows up in a ceiling plan view of the tree and elevations of the tree but so far I have not been able to get this circle base to show up in the realistic 3d top view. Do you know of any visibility settings that need to be changed for this to show up?
Thanks for your help.
James
I am working on a campus development plan. I am using a 3d top view to show the entire campus existing buildings,drives and parking layouts as well as our new modeled building. This is at a 1”=50’ scale everything shows up great in realistic view without having to render showing the necessary shadows and colors of the existing and new modeled buildings. That is after I modeled the roofs on the existing buildings the mass objects, I wanted to use for the existing would not show a shadow unless you clicked on the mass then they would shadow, but when you unclicked they would not show or print shadows might be a bug. I used a civil.dwg 2d for the existing layout as an underlay, this shows up in realistic view but not if you render.
The main problem are the trees in realistic view, what is the best way to get a top view of a reasonable outline of a tree with a shadow? I have great looking shadows but no tree with the stock tree elements.
All suggestions and help will be appreciated.
James
You would need to have a family with a decal on the top of it that looked like the tree in plan, then it would look good.
Signature
SCOTT D, BROWN, AIA | Project Coordinator, Director of Building Information Technology | HHCP.com
Hey Scott,
Thanks for the response. I am using the stock RPC Deciduous tree. I am not familiar with the term decal in Revit. I think I understand what you are saying, but have not been able so far to accomplish this. On the site plan level the deciduous tree shows a circle with several radius lines which represents the overall diameter of the tree and the limbs of the tree. I copied this deciduous base
circle and added the Height parameter so it would always be at the top of the tree. It shows up in a ceiling plan view of the tree and elevations of the tree but so far I have not been able to get this circle base to show up in the realistic 3d top view. Do you know of any visibility settings that need to be changed for this to show up?
Thanks for your help.
James
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