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The secret of the paper models... It is 99,5% done in Illustrator.
Not using building plans, just looking at the pictures my client made of the object.Unfortunately, I am not very good at math. There has to be an easy way to calculate the measurements of where the dormers merge into the roof, but I can't. In the previous projects I asked a friend who does C4D, but now I learned myself to use Blender to do this calculating stuff myself.
The rest is just drawing in Illustrator and making patterns (I use a nice Illustrator js script that applies specific swatches randomly to objects, like bricks and roof tiles. Ooof that script helps me a lot).
The client is a municipality that participates in the national yearly 'Open monuments day'. This paper model is a giveaway at the castle that day, these things are very popular and are in great demand, like the patrol vessel I designed commissioned by the Dutch police.
So, here you can see some details in Illustrator:
- You think 80% of us in here are good at math? Shit like this is trial and error and bodging, and all the better for it - nice work!Nairn
- You should check out SketchUpmonospaced
- Oh yes I tried Sketchup. That was not what I was looking for. And Blender fits my needs for a full 100% for FREE!stewart
- A4 is real size on a 27" screen, go from theregrafician
- But I gotcha, I had to do multi-color lego bricks randomly for packaging on a recent project, pain the assgrafician
- I did the intensified maths class in school. But I have no idea how I could be of any help.SimonFFM
- My advice is to approach maths with passion, love, confidence. Too many people from a young age buy into the 'Maths is hard.' and 'I hate maths.' mantra.shapesalad
- just set the units in illustrator to mm and work in the real mesurements. or something easy to calculate like 1m irl = 1mm in illustrator.uan
- you can figure it out in a second document, maybe without textures, using door height as reference. copy paste scale to your print format an texture it there.uan
- I think S more means the problems with the angular elementsand how they intersect exactly.Nairn
- I use Illy like Cad, and I find I default to old school side/top/front elevations to work that shit out. Failing that, I sometimes use Sketchup to work exact °Nairn
- Like - espe. where things are 'multi-angular' - polyhedra and such, etc - which I can't use old school methods to work out. And then - Pepakura :)Nairn
- that makes sence. while answering I was asking myself why he didn‘t know but considered it a rare possibility nonetheless.uan
- Honestly, for anyone here wanting to play with this sort of thing - check out https://tamasoft.co.… - it's a great wee indie programNairn