Print at Dec 19, 2025, 4:29:57 AM

Posted by NIMAN at Dec 8, 2023, 3:03:58 PM
Re: Process for orthographic, outlined, sectioned, images.
On a related note, I've said some things about the limitations and capabilities of SH3D, the Side view plugin and the Pan3D plugin.

Hi again sjb007.

I thoroughly enjoyed your Planning video (and the Blender one too) - hope there really are more of those in the pipeline (if I haven't missed them somewhere).

I had no particular idea where to post this but your comment made me feel that it might as well be here?

You had mentioned Inkscape to me previously so, having looked at that a bit, I now imagine that taking an "edge defined" SH3D Side View PNG into Inkscape for tracing around could be a (bit long winded admittedly) reasonable method to use in order to, eventually, produce my series of detailed sectional elevations for a Building Control Full Plan Application.

On my Win 7 machine, the virtual visit sideview (pan 3D plugin parallel projection function off) produced the following:

https://postimg.cc/Ty7b3f8R

that not, I think, particularly amenable to tracing with Inkscape.

Simply switching the pan3d "parallel" function on produced this:

https://postimg.cc/qh883XTK

Which seems that it could be relatively straightforward to trace using Inkscape.

However, on my Win10 machine both side view images (parallel on/off) are the same as on the Win7 machine parallel off.

Perhaps someone might understand/comment on the nature of the difference?

I don't think i'll ever get to the number of SH3D levels that I, think I, remember seeing you have used but can definitely see a couple of dozen being required smile