- [Instructor] We're staying in our 3dhousedesign.DWG file.
And as you can see, we're in our 3D modeling workspace
and currently in the elevations 3D layout tab.
Now, one of the things that you can do with AutoCAD in 3D
is apply materials to surfaces in your model.
So what we're going to do now,
we're going to jump back to the model tab
and zoom out slightly and we need to look at our 3D model,
which is actually here, like so.
And what you want to do
is go to the Southwest isometric like that and zoom in
so that you can see the 3D model.
Now at the moment it's in 2D wireframes
so it does look a bit convoluted and a bit messy.
Let's jump back to our realistic visual style
and you can see that it looks obviously much better
in the scheme of things.
And what we want to do now is think about some materials.
Now, when we go to visualize here on the tab in the ribbon,
in the 3D modeling workspace,
we've got our materials browser in the materials panel.
So we click on materials browser,
that'll pop up on the screen.
I'm just going to pan across slightly here, there we go.
So we can see all of our house.
Now the trick here is just to add some materials
to our model.
And then when we do a realistic visual style
in that Southwest isometric in that viewport,
when we do print this out
and send it to say a high resolution PDF,
it'll look nice for the client.
So let's have a look at the roof.
Let's search for tiles for example in the materials browser.
So I'll search for tiles and you've got all different types
of tiles in there.
Now what you might want there is roofing tiles.
So if I go to roofing,
we've got some Spanish tiles in different colors.
So let's go for our faded red we'll drag that across
and apply it like so.
Can you see it changes color there in the model tab.
Let's do that faded red again for the little roof
here as well.
Now I'm still in pan there,
so I might want to right click and exit pan too.
There's faded red again so click on it,
just click and drag and place it there like so.
Now other things we might need to think about
is our brick work.
So we can go in here type bricks, like so,
and what'll happen there you've got ceramic and masonry.
We want masonry and we've got various ones there,
retaining wall slate and so on.
And all I need to find here is a decent brick.
I've got lime green, six inch bricks,
not really what we need.
So let's expand the masonry out and go to brick.
And we've got some modular brown and some modular gray,
light brown light red, doesn't matter what you apply.
You can apply whatever you want,
I'm going to go for the light brown.
So it's a click and a drag place it on a wall like that.
And there you go, our walls have now updated like so.
Now bear in mind that outside wall is one whole solid.
So I've done the whole house there with that.
We've also got our little concrete foundation,
so we might want to search for concrete as well.
And I'll just do a search for that and there we go,
we've got concrete there.
There's concrete and we've got blocks exposed, aggregate,
flat, gray, polished gray, formwork, industrial floors,
and so on, so it's entirely up to you what you go for.
I'm going to go for precast smooth, which is that one there.
And you just want to get it just on the edge
and release and you can see it changes color
ever so slightly.
Now, all I've done is drop some sample materials in there.
I'm going to close the materials browser now like so,
and then double-click on the wheel to zoom extents.
So you see there's all our 2D information over here
with our flat shot sections elevations,
dimensional annotation.
If I now go back to the elevations 3D layout tab,
you'll see that that looks very different now.
And what I can do there perhaps is double click
inside the viewport, zoom in a notch.
And you might want to just pan that ever so slightly
and just get it to fit like so,
it just fits ever so perfectly like that.
And double-click away like so, so there you go.
You've got a nice, realistic looking drawing there.
You've got all your dimensions, plans, elevations sections,
and it all looks good.
Now, hopefully we've got a page setup manager
set up in place.
So I right click and go to page setup up manager
and you can see we've got an ISO A one landscape
PDF page set up being used there like so
by the Elevations 3D Layouts app.
So I'll just close that now, right click and plot.
And I'm not going to plot this,
but I'm just going to do a preview.
And there's a preview of what we would actually get
if we plotted it out at the moment.
So see, everything looks really neat and tidy,
but more importantly,
you are communicating that design intent.
Now, if I zoom in here, I can zoom, remember?
So I've got a zoom tool, hand, zoom window.
Let's do a little zoom window there on that area.
And you'll see there that it does look a bit grainy
when you zoom in close, but when you zoom back out,
you'll see that that obviously looks okay.
Now, what will happen if I right click and exit there,
and obviously cancel the plot dialogue box,
is it looks okay there on the screen,
but you might want to check with your resolution
on your graphics card, the resolution
that you're working to in your page set up as well.
That's really important.
So it's a right click down here.
And page set up manager,
I'll jump into the page set up and just check, modify.
I need to check what it is here, so at the moment,
it's a high quality print in PDF.
So if I select that and go to PDF options,
I can change the quality of that plot if I need to.
So be aware that you can change the quality of your plotting
as well in your page set ups if you need to.
Just double-click on the wheel let's zoom extents like so,
and there's your plot.
And as you can see with those visual styles
and the materials, you can make things look really good
on your AutoCAD drawings.