© 2006 ITT Educational Services Inc. CD230 Architectural Design & Drafting: Unit 1 Slide 1 The DesignCenter and VIZ Render in ADT

© 2006 ITT Educational Services Inc. CD230 Architectural Design & Drafting II: Unit 1 Slide 2 DesignCenter The tree view, in the left portion of the DesignCenter window together with the four DesignCenter tabs, help you find and load content into the content area.

© 2006 ITT Educational Services Inc. CD230 Architectural Design & Drafting II: Unit 1 Slide 3 DesignCenter The Folders tab displays a hierarchy of navigational icons, including  Networks and computers  Web addresses (URLs)  Computer drives  Folders  Drawings and related support files  Xrefs, layouts, hatch styles, and named objects, including blocks, layers, linetypes, text styles, dimension styles, and plot styles within a drawing

© 2006 ITT Educational Services Inc. CD230 Architectural Design & Drafting II: Unit 1 Slide 4 DesignCenter Click an item in the tree view to display its contents in the content area. Click the plus (+) or minus (-) signs to display and hide additional levels in the hierarchy. Double-click an item to display deeper levels. Right-clicking in the tree view displays a shortcut menu with several related options.

© 2006 ITT Educational Services Inc. CD230 Architectural Design & Drafting II: Unit 1 Slide 5 DesignCenter The History, Open Drawings, and DC Online tabs provide alternate methods of locating content.

© 2006 ITT Educational Services Inc. CD230 Architectural Design & Drafting II: Unit 1 Slide 6 VIZ Render VIZ Render is installed when you install Autodesk Architectural Desktop You can start the software from within Architectural Desktop or with any other Windows method.from within Architectural Desktop

© 2006 ITT Educational Services Inc. CD230 Architectural Design & Drafting II: Unit 1 Slide 7 VIZ Render VIZ Render is a single-document application, meaning you can work on only one scene at a time. You can open more than one copy of the program and open a different scene in each copy. Opening additional copies of the program requires a lot of RAM. For the best performance, you should plan to open one copy and work on one scene at a time.

© 2006 ITT Educational Services Inc. CD230 Architectural Design & Drafting II: Unit 1 Slide 8 VIZ Render VIZ Render is tightly integrated with the Architectural Desktop data structures and workflow. workflow It has been designed to extend the inherent power of Architectural Desktop's object- oriented approach to design, and to be a natural, flexible extension to your design process.

© 2006 ITT Educational Services Inc. CD230 Architectural Design & Drafting II: Unit 1 Slide 9 VIZ Render You can't create new geometry in VIZ Render; instead, you use the software to leverage Architectural Desktop geometry (intelligent objects, blocks, and other geometrical entities) as well as their material assignments, to create visualizations of the design your are developing in Architectural Desktop.

© 2006 ITT Educational Services Inc. CD230 Architectural Design & Drafting II: Unit 1 Slide 10 File Link Manager The key data bridge between Architectural Desktop and VIZ Render is the File Link Manager utility, which maintains a live data link between the Architectural Desktop design database and the VIZ Render scene.File Link Manager utility

© 2006 ITT Educational Services Inc. CD230 Architectural Design & Drafting II: Unit 1 Slide 11 File Link Manager File Link Manager maintains the link back to Architectural Desktop, you can continue to develop your design in Architectural Desktop and automatically update your VIZ Render scene.

© 2006 ITT Educational Services Inc. CD230 Architectural Design & Drafting II: Unit 1 Slide 12 File Link Manager The File Link Manager allows you to view your Architectural Desktop objects in VIZ Render. You can rearrange them and modify their material properties. You can also use a wide array of lighting, rendering, and animation tools to test and communicate your design to others.

© 2006 ITT Educational Services Inc. CD230 Architectural Design & Drafting II: Unit 1 Slide 13 Material Design VIZ Render builds on Architectural Desktop's native material assignments by allowing you to develop your own sophisticated and realistic rendering material properties using the Material Editor.Material Editor

© 2006 ITT Educational Services Inc. CD230 Architectural Design & Drafting II: Unit 1 Slide 14 Lights and Cameras Camera objects placed in Architectural Desktop appear in VIZ Render, and you can create new cameras and lights in VIZ Render as well. Light objects from Architectural Desktop do not appear in VIZ Render: all lighting effects in your VIZ Render scene are the result of light and daylight objects you create, place, and adjust in VIZ Render.

© 2006 ITT Educational Services Inc. CD230 Architectural Design & Drafting II: Unit 1 Slide 15 Animating You can begin animating your scene at any time by turning on the Animate button. When the Animate button is on, VIZ Render automatically records the movement, rotation, and scale changes you make, not as changes to a static scene, but as keys on certain frames that represent time.

© 2006 ITT Educational Services Inc. CD230 Architectural Design & Drafting II: Unit 1 Slide 16 Rendering The Renderer includes features such as selective ray tracing, analytical anti-aliasing, volumetric lighting, and environmental effects.