How To: 2D drawings from an organic building model (with Rhino)

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[Marioinsydney]

As a landscape architect this was actually incredibly useful. Have never known how to do those nice architectural line drawings for organic forms. Also never knew about blend curves or how Adobe acrobat treats linescales, I love how you give tips for every part of the process and not just rhino!

[kevaantaya]

Thanks for the contour technics! I love designing with curves and subD but I struggled with this! And also another thing with the contour lines, to minimize the rhino mistakes you can use bigger gaps. Though It gets less accurate

[zedzedzedzarif]

Hello gediminas, I discovered the interior contours that break too much, can be generated by using a larger contour distance( distance between contours) super dense contours tend to not generate properly in make 2d

[friedrichnietzsche]

I'm surprised to see that you suggested Blame! :) I was reading it just now!

[TonyJaboney]

I would recommend just using the layout tab in Rhino, ad the "detail view", change the "detail view" display mode by double clicking it and set it to arctic or rendered to get the shades of the object topology.
Build Title block, annotations/hatches/colors, extra curves etc in layers on top of the detail views on the layout page.
It'll incorporate future changes in your model. No need for the make2D workflow, no incomplete contours and all of that stuff
It'll be to scale and scaleable. You can change linewidths and colors in the layers tab. You can add unlimited amounts of layouts tabs, viewports, section cuts and what not. It works way faster.

You can activate the Clipping planes in specific "detail views" in the "object properties tab".While having the clipping plane selected there is a drop down menu where you can choose between "model views" & "Layout views" to activate the clipping plane in the desired layout viewport"
If you want to export your drawings to PDF or PNG with rendered textures or shades make sure you have the latest graphics drivers installed on your machine so that it wont glitch

It's a bit of a hassle to figure to learn how to work layout pages & detail views but once you've got them down you'll make something similar to this in 15 minutes which can be instantly updated by simply changing things in the 3D model.

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[zoilinar]

thank you my man you saved my sanity with this one

[abdelwahabamloul]

as always bless you mate keep the good work !

[nikouer]

Very nice drawing. I wish one day make 2d, contours, booleals etc works as expected in rhino.

[andywong]

Amazing video as always! Quick question, I've been following your entire subd house series, for creating plans, sections, renders is it recommended to change subd geometry back to nurbs or mesh? Or can i keep working with Subd geometry? I've seen that you've converted it

[PhentomV]

nice! but how did you finally manage to correct blue contour lines ??

[chaca]

very useful tutorials! I'm new using rhino and I have a question is it the same way if I want to convert it to dwg section files for autocad from rhino?

and by the way, Ive tried to make plans using this method but idk why when i try to export it to dwg files, mostly there are a lot of lines disappear when i try open it on autocad, can u tell me why?

thanks!

[abdallakilani]

hello bro...what is the shortcut you have written that makes a photo black and white in the photoshop...its from my pleasure to get the answer

[qiyuchen]

uh the make2d in rhino 7 is just BAD! I always export to Rhino 5 to do the job. It works so much better and mmuch fewer lines are missing!!!