Cutting Through A Model?

DAN212222 · August 18th, 2008

hi guys, ive been asked to do a 3d image of a section through a house model, is there a way of making the camera cut through the scene without distorting the camera.....

Any advice would be much appreciated.... regards dan

andstef · August 18th, 2008

you can use camera clipping planesif you want to make the section paralel to the camera view, or you can select the whole model and allpy a "slice" modifier, and a "cap holes" modifier, and play around with that.
good luck

DAN212222 · August 18th, 2008

thanks for that....

im trying to do the camera clipping plane, but cant find a tutorial on how to do it .....

any ideas or any tips

dan

BillyElNino · August 18th, 2008

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im getting laid off and selling my copy of cinema 4d

Still hanging in there then!

It depends on the level of detail you wish to attain. Some section processes will leave your mesh open at the section cut. You may want to consider physically cutting up your model with the knife tool and removing the excess, or even modelling in what would be revealed when the section is taken. You can use a boole object to obtain a section with the faces filled in or not.

andstef · August 18th, 2008

Well, it's quite simple
place the camera in your scene and use the near clip value to cut where you want (the value is the distance from the camera to the clipping plane, anything closer to the camera will not be displayed)

DAN212222 · August 18th, 2008

HMMMMM boole now theres an idea,

yeah just ticking over for the next couple of weeks, then have to look at new job.... bit crap up here in the north east no residential work at all.... im qualified as an architect technician who does 3d work too.... everyone seems to be getting laid off, so not much hope of finding another job in the industry for a while.... well until the credit crunch is finished.... lol

BillyElNino · August 18th, 2008

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well until the credit crunch is finished

We'll be reminiscing about the good old days during the credit crunch when the recession kicks in properly!!

Antisthenes · August 18th, 2008

cliping planes very easy, in what i use at least

i was going to respond with use the Archcut plugin but your desires are different.

gdrakakis · August 19th, 2008

hi,
this is a simple xpresso set-up of parallel cameras.
it ties the DOF target distance with the near clipping.
this way you can set it precisely by moving the central orange handle of the camera
hth,
george

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DAN212222 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: UK Age: 25 Posts: 169 Name: DAN HOPPER	Cutting Through A Model? hi guys, ive been asked to do a 3d image of a section through a house model, is there a way of making the camera cut through the scene without distorting the camera..... Any advice would be much appreciated.... regards dan

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andstef Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Bucharest Age: 24 Posts: 28 Name: Andrei Stefanescu	Re: Cutting Through A Model? you can use camera clipping planesif you want to make the section paralel to the camera view, or you can select the whole model and allpy a "slice" modifier, and a "cap holes" modifier, and play around with that. good luck

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DAN212222 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: UK Age: 25 Posts: 169 Name: DAN HOPPER	Re: Cutting Through A Model? thanks for that.... im trying to do the camera clipping plane, but cant find a tutorial on how to do it ..... any ideas or any tips dan

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andstef Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Bucharest Age: 24 Posts: 28 Name: Andrei Stefanescu	Re: Cutting Through A Model? Well, it's quite simple place the camera in your scene and use the near clip value to cut where you want (the value is the distance from the camera to the clipping plane, anything closer to the camera will not be displayed)

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DAN212222 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: UK Age: 25 Posts: 169 Name: DAN HOPPER	Re: Cutting Through A Model? HMMMMM boole now theres an idea, yeah just ticking over for the next couple of weeks, then have to look at new job.... bit crap up here in the north east no residential work at all.... im qualified as an architect technician who does 3d work too.... everyone seems to be getting laid off, so not much hope of finding another job in the industry for a while.... well until the credit crunch is finished.... lol

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Antisthenes Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Phx Age: 31 Posts: 586 Name: Jonas Callewaert	Re: Cutting Through A Model? cliping planes very easy, in what i use at least i was going to respond with use the Archcut plugin but your desires are different. __________________ The most necessary/useful piece of learning is that which unlearns what is untrue: 'evil' may be acquiring Happiness through virtue which is based on knowledge!/?

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