ARCHICAD Tutorial #62: Images on Meshes for Site Plans

In this ARCHICAD tutorial video, I discuss how to add images to Meshes (or any other element) to create awesome site models. For more information and relates posts, read the accompanying article:
www.shoegnome.com/2017/05/19/a...

[@jorgebeneitez1994]

Always great stuff! Thanks, Jared!

[@horunsaodatov9526]

Very nice

[@C2Architect]

Nice process Jared. Pretty handy.

[@JaredBanks]

Thanks!

[@lucatabarrini5941]

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[@radarh7910]

Great yob, very useful and simlpy explained. Tnx, tnx, tnx

[@tutorialsforarchicadbeggin385]

right

[@stevendumont7005]

Hi Jared. Thanks for the great videos! I've got a mesh that I have added contours from a topographic survey. It's a house on a hilltop, so it has quite a slope to it and is not as flat and clean as this site. Can this be done with a contoured mesh as well? Thanks again.

[@Shoegnome]

Theoretically yes. You'll just have to mess with the scale of the image and do some stretching. If it's just vegetation and abstract stuff, it should be fine. If there's more detail in the image that needs to be located perfectly it might be that you need to break the image and site into 2 or more pieces. That way you can scale the image as necessary for the right area of the site (less distorted on the flat areas, more distorted elsewhere). In general I'd say scale the image to be correct @ the building and let the inaccuracy be farther away.

[@stevendumont7005]

Thanks Jared I'll give it a try.

[@EDub513]

Thanks for the video. For what it’s worth, you rotated the image 90 degrees, not negative 90 degrees. Positive degrees (when rotating counterclockwise)... as ass backwards as that seems.

[@horunsaodatov9526]

Hello! Do you have visualization lessons in Archikad, as well as learning the GDL language? Thank you for attention!

[@Shoegnome]

I don't. But I recommend you look here: gdl.graphisoft.com/ There are great resources and a forum dedicated to GDL.

[@UncarvedBlockHolds]

so the morph is just to get the image same scale?

[@Shoegnome]

The morph is so you can properly set the origin point of the Surface correctly in 3D. You could really do it with any tool, as long as you can locate the proper corner of the image you are using in 3D.