Basic Maya Interface

  • Maya project folder set up, Maya interface, tool bar control
  • Maya polygon components ( face, vertex, edge), soft selection, Maya  boolean,
  • Polygon modeling Demo, build a polygon chair, smooth,
  • Maya NURB modeling, hypergraph window

01-06

publish 3D model into DWF file

Publish Revit into DWF. Open with the IE browser. Upload to WordPress blog.

03-07

Publish 3ds Max into DWF. Convert Rhino file to 3DS MAX, add material, and publish.

dwf2

Maya model can be imported into 3ds max through FBX or OBJ format. AutoCAD files has a dwf output by typing “3ddwfpublish” in the command line.

Tectonic drawing

Set up camera view in Rhino

Perspective / isometric

Export view

Export Rhino drawing to Illustrator

Compose digital image with photo* in Photoshop, layer

rhino_photoshop

* ( photo from Marrissa Zane, ARCH 202. Winter 2011)

Revit Curtain Wall

Step1:
Interior lighting

Section Rhino model, then transfer the lines with “dxf” format to Revit, use it to

built mass

build  curtain system

Step 2: Create Revit Curtain Wall family

Load Curtain Wall panel into a project

step 3:
Advanced parametric control of curtain wall panel

Difference between type parameter and instance parameter

Set up the relation between ( width) dimension and its shape (extrusion)

use the reporting parameter.