[1] TIPS & TRICKS Thursday 30 July 2009 WELCOME TO OUR THIRD TIPS & TRICKS NEWSLETTER We trust that this will help our ArchiCARE clients to become more proficient and expert users. how to become an expert ArchiCAD user How to: Creative uses of the “W Niche 12” & “W Lesene 12” You can use the “W Niche 12” & “W Lesene 12” to create more than a basic recess or protrusion. These can be used to create features like differences in material e.g. brick plinths, vertical & horizontal recesses, colour bands etc... Note: The “W Lesene 12” can create protrusions with a minimum value of 1 mm & the “W Niche 12” can create recesses with a minimum depth of 1 mm. TotalCAD SOLUTION CENTRE most experienced and reputable Virtual Building provider in Southern Africa!
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How to: Creative uses of the “W Niche 12” & “W Lesene 12”
You can use the “W Niche 12” & “W Lesene 12” to create more than a basic recess or protrusion. These can be used to create features like differences in material e.g. brick plinths, vertical & horizontal recesses, colour bands etc
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TIPS & TRICKS Thursday 30 July 2009
WELCOME TO OUR THIRD TIPS & TRICKS NEWSLETTERWe trust that this will help our ArchiCARE clients to become more proficient and expert users.
how to become an expert ArchiCAD user
How to: Creative uses of the “W Niche 12” & “W Lesene 12”You can use the “W Niche 12” & “W Lesene 12” to create more than a basic recess or protrusion. These can be
used to create features like differences in material e.g. brick plinths, vertical & horizontal recesses, colour bands
etc... Note: The “W Lesene 12” can create protrusions with a minimum value of 1 mm & the “W Niche 12” can
create recesses with a minimum depth of 1 mm.
TotalCAD SOLUTION CENTREmost experienced and reputable Virtual Building provider in Southern Africa!
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The LightWorks Library contains some unique light objects that can enhance your renderings: although they
are lamps, they simulate ambient lighting. These objects are placed using ArchiCAD’s Lamp tool: to find them,
open the Lamp Settings dialog box and the LightWorks Lights sub-folder from Libraries and are called SkyObject,
SunObject and WindowLight.
Now set the number of Light Sources. The more you use the softer the shadows produced. You can also
choose whether to use the Project Sun settings using date and time or to set Sun position manually
How to: Expert Lightworks Options
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Now switch off the ArchiCAD Sun and the Camera light. You can adjust the intensity level of the Sun Object &
Sky Object lights in their respective settings dialog boxes. But, the “Ambient” checkbox and its associated
intensity value, will also affect these objects’ lighting effects. Note: Please do not change the resolution. It refers
to screen resolution and not printing resolution
Now place both the Sky Object and Sun Object anywhere on the floor plan.
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The result after using the PhotoRender Projection using the LightWorks rendering engine and using the settings
above. The materials are “standard” LightWorks materials.
Please note: the Alfa 147 used in the Rendering above was downloaded for free as a sample from http://
www.doschdesign.com/products/3d/Cars_2005_V1-1.html. The vertical and horizontal slots in the walls were