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[Martin Livingston]

Our real estate group has been after me to provide marketing floor plans that are clear enough to add to handouts in a small scale and still be legible. Basically they wanted no perspective and no shadows. It took a while but I figured out that if I set my camera up with a field of view value set a 1 and an elevation of 3000 feet (not a type o) I could produce what they wanted. But it was a pain to set up.

 

Looking through the reView section of the main directory while I was in the 3D mode I see a new button that I have never seen before - Export Sketchup Model. I am assuming it is new for 2018 only because I hadn't noticed it before.

 

I made the mistake of exporting an entire drawing (everything in the model including the site plan) which created a file in excess of 100 MB. I tried it again with just one floor and the roof and ceilings turned off. I opened up the resulting file (38 MB - still large but manageable) in Sketchup and I had a fully scaled 3D model with textures and no shadows that I could manipulate easily. I set up the camera with a standard top view and turned off the perspective. Instant high resolution marketing facsimile ready for export to a PNG image file.

 

As a bonus we will be providing our clients with their floor plans in SKP files on a USB drive so they can wander around there new homes before they are built, measure walls and; although I haven't tried it yet, could add furniture and other features from their own Sketchup drawings or from the Sketchup Warehouse.

 

While the Softplan reView is OK you are limited by the static camera locations. Exporting to a Sketchup model can be a powerful sales tool. We are considering offering our spec homes and standard design available to potential new buyers. Let them take the house for a "test drive".

 

Here are some samples - the Softplan marketing image, the Sketchup 3D equivalent and the Sketchup 2D version. Total time to setup and create the images - about 5 minutes. 

 

 

Cheers!

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[randolph cohn]

have you played with the "presentation views" 

of "ANY" of the floor plans that are in the "model"

one floor at a time.

 

no setup of camera to play with > it's done for you.

 

it's in 2018,  can't remember if it was available in previous versions

and too lazy to check.

[Keith Almond]

I'll second what Randy suggests ... The presentation views were (I assume) set up to do just that. Select one, and adjust your render settings to suit.

 

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The textures above, just happen to be a mode that I already have setup with no shadows (and they are a bit "flat" for what you want), but you can obviously apply anything that you like. You could even overwrite any standard mode (AHEM ... Wire Frame ... which I consider almost useless) with your settings for a CUSTOM mode just for the presentation views.

[Paul James]

I wish presentation views would allow a perspective camera angle as an option- actually just the standard 3d camera- 

[Tom Rogers]

Nice presentation plan Keith.  I have had more requests for this as well instead of the standard B&W flyers you see.  Just have to get in and get all my settings figured out.  Mine still look 3D and a bit blurry.