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Creating Site Plans
Creating a 3D site plan can seem like a daunting challenge and can easily frustrate experienced
users. For many years, I have experimented with virtually every possible way to create site
plans, and the chances are that if you ve been frustrated with a particular plan of attack ...
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site plan used in this tutorial may appear overly simplified. For example, lines that represent
streets are often poorly constructed and contain countless breaks, rather than being continuous
lines. Rather than giving you lines that require hours of editing and welding to fix, I have provided
near perfect linework, with only a few imperfections that allow me to demonstrate problems
usually commonplace to site drawings.
This will allow the tutorial to progress rather quickly in
comparison to real-world site planning, and therefore speed up and optimize learning
considerably. The following image shows an example of how the more â typicalâ plan is cluttered
with dozens of layers of information that is simply not needed in the development of a 3D site.
This tutorial demonstrates a project starting from AutoCAD, however, the same
concepts should apply quite nicely to any CAD program. Ironically, the majority of work
performed in the creation of a 3D site should usually be performed in a CAD program, such as
AutoCAD. Remember the saying, â Garbage in equals garbage out.â This saying couldnâ t be more
applicable to 3D site plans in 3ds Max. With good linework to import into 3ds Max, one could
easily build a very complex 3D site in well under an hour. With poor linework, however, the same
task could take countless hours and often lead to very inaccurate models. I have often spent an
entire day preparing linework for import into 3ds Max, and turned the linework into a complete 3D
scene in 15 minutes or less. Of course, you always have the option of importing drawings
straight into 3ds Max â as isâ , however, I highly recommend avoiding this approach for numerous
reasons, not least because AutoCAD has superior line editing capabilities over Max, so doing this
step in AutoCAD will lead to much better overall results.
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