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Can I create a "sketchy" view of a floor plan?

Anonymous
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My employer wants to take a floor plan and give it a "sketchy" look, like you would in a 3d view. Is this possible? I found some information on doing this (http://www.graphisoft.com/support/archicad/archiguide/2003january.html)
but it's an old post and seems rather lengthy and difficult. Any help???
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Dwight
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Right. Complex an understatement but a beautiful result just the same.


1: Make a new line type that is squiggly.
2: Explode your floor plan but retain primitive elements.
3: Select all the new lines resulting from the explosion and Drag them to a new place /cut to an independent window
4: Change the line type to the squiggly one.


Cigraph makes a sophisticated appplication called ArchiSketchy for this purpose.
Dwight Atkinson
Anonymous
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Thank you Dwight.
Anonymous
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Karl Ottenstein
Moderator
Steven wrote:
My employer wants to take a floor plan and give it a "sketchy" look, like you would in a 3d view. Is this possible? I found some information on doing this (http://www.graphisoft.com/support/archicad/archiguide/2003january.html)
but it's an old post and seems rather lengthy and difficult. Any help???
Yeah,
http://www.archicadwiki.com/TechNotes/Sketch_Rendering_from_Floor_Plan?highlight=%28sketch%29

was Bert and me with rewrite by GS in 2003. It's actually way easier than that now, with plotmaker long gone. The sketch render gives a good effect, but if you want something that is to-scale, other options like Dwight's suggestion, are simpler.

The trick of the tip is that ArchiCAD cannot display lines in 3D (unless generated by a GDL object). But, if you open a dwg as an object, the lines of that object will appear in the 3D window and thus can be rendered with the sketch engine. (They disappear with LightWorks.)

Cheers,
Karl
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