Architectural Documentation in Rhino
1h 19mIntermediate2016-12-05
Authors

Dave Schultze
Industrial Designer and 3D Geek
Course details
Refine your Rhino skills. Learn how to create architectural documentation and presentation images that make your designs shine. Find out how to create fast and easy presentations with Rhino's built-in viewport modes—no rendering required! Next, learn how to create exploded and isometric views of your buildings. Then take a trip into Photoshop, where instructor Dave Schultze shows how to edit backgrounds, add shading, and make your images pop. Back in Rhino, Dave shows how to create section cuts of your project with the cutting plane, and use page layouts to prepare designs of any scale for printing and publication. Stay tuned at the end of the course for some of Dave's bonus tips and tricks for workflow strategies.
Learning objectives
Customizing and saving view modes
Generating isometric and exploded views
Exploring Make 2D
Creating, editing, and printing layout pages
Learning objectives
Customizing and saving view modes
Generating isometric and exploded views
Exploring Make 2D
Creating, editing, and printing layout pages
Skills covered
RhinoRobert McNeel & AssociatesProduct and Industrial Design3D ModelingProjectVisualization and Real-TimeAECProduct and ManufacturingAnimation and Illustration
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
1. Design Presentation
- 02 - Customizing view modes
- 03 - Adding shadows and saving view modes
- 04 - Generating isometric and exploded views
- 05 - Screen capture strategies
- 06 - Using alpha channels and compositing
- 07 - Exploring the Make 2D command
2. Project Documentation
- 08 - The amazing clipping plane
- 09 - Creating layout pages
- 10 - Editing layout pages, part 1
- 11 - Editing layout pages, part 2
- 12 - Printing layout pages
Conclusion
- 13 - Random Dave tips and tricks
- 14 - Conclusion and next steps