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08-07-2008, 11:29 AM
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basement renderings
Im a freelance designer/drafter. this is some of my work. please feel free to comment. This is actually my basement and its in the framing stages right now. I only get time to work on it on the weekends.
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08-07-2008, 01:12 PM
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How are you planning on finishing the block side of the stairwell?
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08-07-2008, 03:09 PM
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Workin' Hard & Havin' Fun
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pretty cool!
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08-07-2008, 04:17 PM
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Mod / ArchiBuilder
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Nice.
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08-07-2008, 07:47 PM
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not bad. what do you use for a program?
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08-11-2008, 06:59 AM
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Right now the block side of the stair well there is about 2 1/4" gap between the stairs and concrete. So i was going to attach 2 x 2 and foam insulation, drywall. That wall is under the garage. The entire basement is completely underground. So there is already the foam insulation on the outside.
Its a program called solidworks. It has its own rendering, but i am looking into 3rd party rendering software. I would like to start to do more of these, but i feel the renders need a little more in them (beyond what i can do this software). As for the floor plan i exported it to autocad. Its easier to draw it 1:1 and change your scales in there for this type of work.
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08-12-2008, 09:02 AM
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Mark
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great
Awesome visuals.
I love have you overlay the 1D and 3D images, nice touch.
Casey
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12-18-2008, 07:54 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by baum
Right now the block side of the stair well there is about 2 1/4" gap between the stairs and concrete. So i was going to attach 2 x 2 and foam insulation, drywall.
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Have had to do that on numerous renos, to bad people in the 50's never considered us finishing there basements lol.
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12-18-2008, 08:01 PM
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the egress window is in a well?
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12-20-2008, 10:13 PM
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New Guy
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looks excellent!
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12-22-2008, 10:09 AM
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Yes the egress is in a well, i just didnt take the time to draw it in.
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12-22-2008, 03:33 PM
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Never lost a battle.
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Hi, very cool basement, I hope you don't mind I used it to do a couple of raytraces in Chief using Pov-Ray and one in Kerkythea.
The Kerky one was way faster than Pov-ray but I think they both look good.
Does SolidWorks have specific architectural tools like walls or doyu have to make solids to represent walls, stairs and such?
Thanks.
Andy.
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12-22-2008, 04:29 PM
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I like the bottom one better...which was that Andy?
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12-22-2008, 05:46 PM
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Never lost a battle.
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The bottom one was raytraced in Pov-Ray with Anti-aliasing on medium and low radiosity. Both are using the default light source.
Pov-Ray is a free stand-alone rendering program as well as being bundled with Chief. The stand-alone can take advantage of multiple cores in the CPU for really fast renders. Kerkythea is also a free download and it is easier to use and you have more controle of the out-put.
Andy.
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12-23-2008, 08:18 AM
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Solidworks is mechanical design software. Their rendering is not the best. some of the wood grain look like crap.
The reason i chose to use this to solid model was to create a 3d layout for the "old lady". Seeing just a top view of it she was like whats that?? With the solid model, i would calculate exactly how much lumber to buy. I have been building this by myself with no help so i would do one wall, then another. The other thing is i am paying cash for it all so i am doing it in steps. As of right now i think i only have about 3 extra 2 x 4's.
I was looking into some of those free rendering softwares. I may have to try one.
PS: The look great. Makes mine look like crap!!
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