Gestural Camera Matching In Revit
Basically, you overlay a 3D view over an image placed on a Sheet to allow you to see the photo background while you match the view. Step-by-step: Make a new 3D view from approximate eye location to ap…
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Live 3D views with Photo as Background (render not required)
Here’s one that has been sitting in my draft posts for a while… Basically, its an example of what you can do by overlaying views on Sheets. In this case, I have used a Drafting View with an imported I…
123D Cameras to real Revit 3D Views (plus more IFC resources)
I have spent hours trying to figure out how to take actual camera locations from 123D (Photofly) and get them into Revit as ‘real’ cameras (3D views). I thought it would be cool to be able to use a re…
Set up a NICE 3D View Template … for quick Cameras
When making a standard perspective Camera View, Revit 2013 allows you to effectively preset View properties, so that all new Camera views look nice. These settings are from the BIM Technologist: Then,…
How to match a Revit 3D view to a real life Camera Photo
Awesome post from Klaus over at:Revit and Camera Match / FOV and Focal Length He provides a family file and a step-by-step process for how to match a Revit 3D perspective view with a real life camera …
Select Section Box of 3D View from Project Browser
I knew that you could select the ‘camera’ element of a 3D View by right-clicking the 3D View name in the Project Browser and clicking ‘Show Camera’. However, I did not realise that you can also select…
Section Box with Perspective 3D Views
As we all know, Revit really wants you to be able to properly visualize your building. You may have experimented with Section Boxes in normal 3D views, but you can also use them in Perspective/Camera …