Discover the comprehensive process of creating aerial views of a 3D model, starting with adjusting the camera view and target elevation to altering the angle and distance from the model. Learn how to manipulate the model to display all four corners of the view and how to lock in these view settings.
Key Insights
- The process begins with creating a 3D view and adjusting the camera view. This involves reducing the target elevation to start looking down further and increasing the eye elevation for a top-down view of the model.
- Next, the view is adjusted to make the model easily visible. This involves increasing the target elevation and eye elevation, and using the wheel to adjust the camera's position. The pan, zoom, and walk options can be used to find the desired angle.
- Finally, the view is locked in and copied to show all four corners of the model. The size of the view can be set and locked, and the resulting views can be renamed according to their orientation (e.g., Southwest Aerial, Northwest Aerial).
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Now that we've got the bulk of our modeling complete, I want to create the two sheets that we've benchmarked here for our 3D views. So I've got 901 and 902. And so 901, we're going to create four different aerial views.
And to do that, I'm going to go ahead and take a look at my 3D view options here. And so I might go to my roof plan first, and we're going to make some adjustments here to get this to look the way we want it to. But the best way that I can think of to do this is going to be to create a 3D view like we've done in the past, and using that camera view.
And so the first one I'll do is going to be from this angle here. And so I'll just kind of take it across to that point. And you can see we're up at the roof level.
So it's going to create this axon view for us. And then I can start to tilt this around. So there's two options that we can look at to do that.
So you can see our target elevation and our eye elevation. And so if I reduce my target elevation to like five feet, then that means I'm going to start looking down further. And if I increase my eye elevation to say like 150 feet—we're really looking down on the building at that point.
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And so I could start to adjust this a little bit here and create that axon view, doing it with a perspective. And so now it just becomes a matter of trying to get these settings the way that you want. And I don't want a really sharp aggressive view here.
The idea is that we can create a view that makes it easy to see the building. If I increase my target elevation to 50 feet and maybe my eye elevation to 200, that'll give me a good field of view that I could use to start to look at the building a little bit better. And from here we can adjust where the camera is sitting here by using the wheel.
And what's cool about the wheel is we can then like pan around, zoom in and out, and even kind of walk, which will allow you to adjust the angle and the distance you are from the building. And so what I'll do is I'll just kind of find an angle that I'm looking for here by using the different pan, zoom, and walk options. You can even adjust your up and down.
So this is just going to move you up vertically like that. And then I can go back in and tweak some of those other settings that we were looking at, like the eye and target elevation. If I was really set on having it be that 50 feet and like 150 feet or 150 feet, then I can make those adjustments.
And so I think I'm gonna go a little higher, 200. And you can see that this is starting to give me that axon view. And the bulk of the work is really in the first one.
Once we get that one set, we should be in a good spot. And then you can take this view and we can copy it to show all four corners of the view. And so using again those same options to try to get us a view that shows the building well here.
The other one that I didn't cover here because it gets a little tricky is you can use the orbit tool. But I highly recommend having a really good grip on your mouse as you do this because it can get a little sideways. And so I'm just twisting it really, really slowly here.
And that looks pretty good. If you made a change that you didn't like, you can always click on this rewind tool. And then you can see it allows me to rewind back to the views that I was at.
And so here I think is a good view that shows this side of the building really well. And then I'll go ahead and I'm going to set the size of this view and kind of lock it in. And we're going to put four of these views on our drawing sheet.
If I use this size crop option, it's going to adjust the size of my crop region. And the height isn't really going to be our limiting factor here. It's going to be more the width.
And so I'm going to click scale to lock the portions here. And then I'm going to change this because I want it to be the right height, or rather, the right width. I want to make it 16 and a half inches.
And you can see it's going to adjust my height here. And I'll hit OK. And we don't see any change here.
But I will just tighten this up a little bit because we don't need to show all that stuff. And it gives me this kind of rectangular look of the building. And so this is our first one.
And I'm going to call this one our Southwest Aerial. So you can see I'm just going to rename it. I know that's the view we're working in because it's bold.
And so I'll rename it and I'll call it Southwest Aerial. And so what I could do here is I could right click and I could duplicate view. Gives me another one.
And then this is where we can go to the cube here. And I can click on the cube. And it'll swap me around to the opposite side of the building.
And we just need to go through and use the wheel again and zoom in on the building, pan around, maybe orbit a bit to get the view that we're looking for, and go through that same process where we crop down.
And remembering if we use that 16 and a half inch for the size crop, then we'll be able to get four of these views on a sheet. And so now this one here is going to be our Northwest Aerial. So I'll rename that one to be the Northwest Aerial.
We've got those two set up. And then I'll go ahead and do the other two sides in the next video.
