CCA

Architecture Department

Course Title: Design Media 1

Course Number: MARCH-611
Instructors: Eoyang
Meeting Times: M / W 8:30 11:30am

Tutorial 5 Rhino (Cameras, views, & Make 2D)

Manual Generation (Rhino) Make2D

CAMERA Options
o SHOWCAMERA o Visible / Hidden
o Axonometric Drawing o Keep Layers
o Isometric Drawing o NamedView tab
o 35.264 Vertical Rot., 45 Horizontal Rot. o Parallel vs perspective viewport option
Place Camera & Target Process
SPLIT + one point perspective viewport 1. Find a view to capture (parallel or perspective?)
CLIPPINGPLANE 2. CPLANE VIEW
o If clipping plane doesn't show up correctly, click 3. Draw rectangle
on the "Properties" Tab and select the 4. MAKE2D Options:
appropriate viewport to display it. 1. Current cplane or View
Setting up a view: 2. Uncheck maintain source layers
o Start in an orthogonal view (front/back/left/right) 5. Reset CPLANE back to World Top. Zoom
o Right click on the viewport name around, you'll see it's at an irregular angle
o Scroll down to the bottom: "Viewport Properties" 6. Put it back to XY plane
o In the "Projection" section, select "Perspective" 1. Move to 0,0,0 point
o Click "OK" 2. ROTATE / ROTATE3D
o Back in your viewport, zoom extents 7. Export to Illustrator
o If you'd like to further calibrate your view, make 1. Type EXPORT
sure the viewport showing your Make2D view is 2. Different results from plan vs persp view
selected, and type SHOWCAMERA. The camera 3. Select .ai file type
will appear in the "Perspective" viewport. 4. Options: default
o Save this view with NAMEDVIEW command Issues with interior shots
o Make sure to turn off isocurves?

Screenshots
Display styles
o Technical
o Artistic
Copy to Clipboard
Trick for high-res screenshots
o Typing "-VIEWCAPTURETOFILE" (rather than
the same without the hyphen) allows greater
options
o SCALE sub-command: allows saving of the
viewport at higher resolutions (e.g. viewport of
800x600 pixels w/ scale = 4, the saved file would
measure 3200x2400 pixels)
o Combine this with the creation of custom display
settings (change the pixel widths of surfaces,
curves, shadow color, etc.) to export some high-
quality raster images without any post-
processing.
o http://andrewheumann.com/