Tigger Posted October 15, 2004 Posted October 15, 2004 I'm looking for some software and guidance on creating a 360 degree free rotational pic of a westfield using Cad or something like it. Searched the www but I'm completely confused what to look for, can anybody with experience please point me in the right direction? Tigger Quote
taffy Posted October 15, 2004 Posted October 15, 2004 hi Tiggs, Salty Monk is yr man on CAD he,s a wizard with the thing. See if you can call him up or PM him. Rob Quote
Tigger Posted October 15, 2004 Author Posted October 15, 2004 Cheers Taffy, I'll do a search for him and PM him now. Tigger Quote
Howard Posted October 15, 2004 Posted October 15, 2004 Depends how accurate you want to be. I'd recommend Solidworks as a good package that is user friendly. You will have PM shortly. Howard Quote
Mark Stanton Posted October 15, 2004 Posted October 15, 2004 Are you thinking of something like Auto-Cad Release 2004 full 3D package. Which can produce full 3D rotational views from all angles and if required can be fully rendered Quote
Tigger Posted October 15, 2004 Author Posted October 15, 2004 Erm, yes something like that Mark if I knew what it meant - lol??? Have you ever used it Mark and does it take a super computer to run it? Cheers Tigger Quote
highwayman Posted October 15, 2004 Posted October 15, 2004 AutoCAD 2004 but not the light version.Depends how much time and money you want to throw at this and you' d need to tread careful regarding westfield copyright if you are planning on modelling directly on a westfield and if its not just for personal stuff. I use the above quite often but others will probably be able to advise Dave Quote
Arm Posted October 15, 2004 Posted October 15, 2004 Or how about Catia V5 that will do it for you, whilst you sit there drinking coffee shouting revolve faster, faster still. Quote
Arm Posted October 15, 2004 Posted October 15, 2004 Its a full 3D package which is accurate to the finite dimensions required When you use if for site designs do you set default units to yards or spade widths ? Whats the smallest increments it can go down to ? Thumb widths ? Quote
Tigger Posted October 15, 2004 Author Posted October 15, 2004 Well at this stage it's only an idea, if I manage to get my head around it, I'll approach Westfield's of course. Last thing I need is a court case Tigger Quote
timd Posted October 15, 2004 Posted October 15, 2004 Or how about Catia V5 that will do it for you, whilst you sit there drinking coffee shouting revolve faster, faster still. V5, pah - you really wanna use ICEMSurf for a decent result - esp if rendering is important! Quote
Tigger Posted October 15, 2004 Author Posted October 15, 2004 Seems there's a bit of differing opinions ..... as usual. Don't you just love all this friendly banter BTW: What's rendering? I don't stand a chance of doing this do I? Tigger Quote
timd Posted October 15, 2004 Posted October 15, 2004 BTW: What's rendering? I don't stand a chance of doing this do I? Tigger Rendering = posh word for colouring in... The better packages do it more photo-realistically than the cheapo ones - usually. Quote
highwayman Posted October 16, 2004 Posted October 16, 2004 You decide the AutoCAD base units like millimeters and scale the basic design by 1/1000 if you want it in meters. Rendering will colour in and you can create shade and material properties,etc. Once you create the model in 3d you can set the location iof the light source and rotate it at any angle zoom in etc at free will. Westfield produce there own drawings using cad but not sure which package they use probably PRO Engineer which is biased towards that field. There is also a product called CADKey which is cheaper and is suitable too. Dave Quote
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