3D styles

- [Instructor] I'd like to show you a filter that was added on the ARCHICAD Version 21, which is called 3D Styles. So to see that filter, we need to go to the 3D and then double-click on Generic Perspective. We should have a view of the house. And notice now that at the bottom, we have this option, 3D Window Style. You should be able to see that as well here, but because I don't have much room, I'm going to remove this Organizer. And now we have at the bottom, the 3D Window Style.

So we can change here, for instance, from 3D Window Style to White Model or to White Model with Shadows. And I'm going to back to the 3D Window Style that I had before. If you click on this icon next to this menu, ARCHICAD will take you to the 3D Style settings. You can get to this window, also, by going to the menu View, 3D View Options, and then 3D Styles. So here we can change the way we want to see it, starting with the 3D Engine, which is basically how ARCHICAD is going to render this image for us.

Right now we are using OpenGL. If I change here to Vectorial Engine, I'm going to press OK, so you see how it looks, we have something that is a little bit more demanding to the computer, but you have lines that gets printed really well. So I'm going to go back, change it back to OpenGL. Next we can choose to switch off Transparency. If you have a large project with a lot of glass, this makes it very heavy, so you can switch it off here when you're working. We can also choose to have a Monochrome Model.

So let's choose that, and I will choose the Contour to be a light gray. Let's press OK. Here we go, so we have a White Model with gray Contours. Let's go back to that 3D Style, switch off the Monochrome. We can also choose a Sky Color. So right now we have this light blue. The Ground is white. If you click here, it will be able to change that color. I'm going to change it to white. And then next we can choose to Show or not the Contours.

So for example, if I turn this off and press OK, we should have our house without any edges. Now I'm going to go back to the 3D window, turn on the Contour again. Next we have the Shadows that we can turn on and off. Now, you can save this the way you want, you just have to press New, give it a name, and those settings will be saved here. Then when you have the setting saved, for example, if I Cancel here, let's use the White Model with Shadows.

Let's choose a nice angle here. Now I can drag this Generic Perspective to my view map and save this perspective to either put it on the layout later or just print it, so you can sketch on top of it. And that was a quick overview on the 3D Styles.