Adding Glass and Columns

Building an Architectural Model from a Concept Sketch

Producing a Shadow Study

 

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Creating the Second Building

In this section, you will create a simple primitive to represent the second part of the building. The shape is a trapezoid with no visible windows.

Set up the lesson:

To start from this point, do one of the following:

1. Continue from the previous step, or open your saved file, mybuilding.max.
2. If you want to begin the tutorial at this point, open building1_complete.max from the \tutorials\arch directory.

Create and modify a box:

1. In the Top viewport, use the Pan tool to bring the brick building area of the drawing (labeled "4 story red brick") into view. Zoom back a little so the entire new building is visible.

   

2. In the Create panel > Geometry > Object Type rollout, click Box.
3. In the Top viewport, create a box as shown below, with a height of 30.0m.

   

4. In the Create panel > Name And Color rollout, type Brick Building.
5. Apply an Edit Mesh modifier.
6. Go to the Vertex sub-object level
7. In the Top viewport, use Rectangular Region Selection to select the vertices on the right side. Move them down in the Y axis until they line up with the sketch.
8. Select the vertices along the bottom of the box.
9. Move them up in the Y axis, until they line up with the sketch.

   

10. In the Modify panel > Selection rollout, click Vertex to return to the object level.

    

Save your work:

• On the menu bar, choose File > Save As. Name the file mybuildings.max.