CompuServe Messages

#Creating 3-d buildings

    27-Sep-94 09:55:01
Sb: #Creating 3-d buildings
Fm: Dan S. Biggs 75032,2355
To: all
We do an awful lot of animation involving architecture. Sometimes its a 50 home subdivision, sometimes its a 500 unit condo project. We have to build homes and other buildings for rendering (we do no drafting). We are using AutoCAD R12 and 3DS2. What packages, add-ons, etc do you recommend to speed up the process? Also, we make a lot ot sites from grading plans. What do you recommend to speed this process up? We normally use a large digitizer to input contour lines or terrain breaks. Then we use Schreiber's latest Quicksurf to create a surface over plines that we entered. I would like to know if there is a better way to construct roads, curbs around parking lots etc. Thanks for any help. Dan Biggs (DDS)