====== Hilfe ====== Die {{:produkte:gruenstudio3d:gruenstudio_3d_hilfe.pdf|ausführliche Hilfe}} zu **DATAflor GRÜNSTUDIO 3D** ist als PDF-Datei in englischer Sprache verfügbar. /*====== Adjusting the View ====== ===== Plan View ===== The Plan view provides a 2D overhead view of your landscape design, and is typically the best view in which to add or edit objects. To access the Plan view, click the Plan tab near the bottom-left of the viewport (see above image). While most objects can be added or edited in either the Plan or Perspective views, Plan Detail objects can only be added while using the Plan view. For more information on Plan Detail objects, such as plant labels, notes, text, and other objects, see Adding Plan Detail|topic=Adding Plan Detail.\\ **Plan Shadows**\\ The Plan view can be enhanced with detailed drop shadows, adding to the professional appearance of your landscape plan by providing a feeling of depth. For more details, see Plan Shadows|topic=Plan Shadows. Important: Plan shadows can slow down large designs on slower computers. If this is happening to you, simply turn off plan shadows until it is time to print the design or save screen shots.\\ **See also:** * Adding Plan Detail * Plan Shadows * Perspective View * Panning the View * Zooming the View * Zooming into the Selection * Zooming into a Rectangle ===== Perspective View ===== The Perspective view can be accessed by clicking the Perspective tab, which is located to the bottom-left of the viewport (see above image). Unlike the Plan view, the Perspective view is entirely 3D, and allows you to view any portion of your landscape design from any angle. Some objects are best edited in the Perspective view, such as house doors and windows, because in the Perspective view you are able to view the objects at eye level. The Perspective view is also especially useful for raising or lowering objects, modifying the terrain and grading, or changing the materials of an object.\\ **See also:** * Plan View * Realtime Walkthrough * Panning the View * Orbiting the View * Zooming the View * Zooming into the Selection * Picture Import Wizard ===== Panning the View ===== **To pan the plan or perspective view:** - Click the Pan button that is found to the left of the screen. - Position your mouse cursor inside the landscape design and then move the mouse while holding down the left mouse button. When finished panning, release the mouse button. Panning will move your view forward and backward, left and right, from one portion of your landscape to another. For example, panning would allow you to move your view from the front yard of a residence to the back yard. Mouse Shortcut: If you have a mouse wheel, then you can pan by moving the mouse while clicking and holding down the mouse wheel. Using the mouse wheel is much faster than clicking the Pan button every time you need to pan the view. The mouse cursor automatically jumps to the other side of the screen when it reaches the side of the viewport, making it easy to pan across large areas of your design with only one click.\\ The keyboard arrow keys can also be used to pan the view.\\ **See also:** * Plan View * Perspective View * Orbiting the View * Zooming the View * Zooming into the Selection * Zooming into a Rectangle ===== Zooming the View ===== **To zoom the plan or perspective view:** - Click the Zoom button that is found to the left of the screen. - Position your mouse cursor inside the landscape design and then hold down the left mouse button. Move the mouse up to zoom out, or down to zoom in. When finished, release the left mouse button. Zooming will move your view closer to, or father away from what you are currently looking at. For example, you could zoom in on a single plant, or zoom out to view your entire design.\\ **Mouse Shortcut:** Using only your mouse, there are two other ways to zoom that will save you time. If your mouse has a wheel, simple roll the wheel up or down to zoom. The other method is to hold down both the left and right mouse buttons while moving the mouse up or down. Either mouse shortcut is faster and more efficient than selecting the Zoom button every time you need to zoom your view.\\ The mouse cursor automatically jumps to the other side of the screen when it reaches the side of the viewport, making it easy to zoom large distances.\\ **Tips:** * The zoom direction can be reversed by changing the Reverse mouse zoom direction option in Program Settings|topic=Program Settings. * You can optionally zoom into the current mouse position rather than the center of the screen. See Program Settings|topic=Program Settings for details.\\ **See also:** * Plan View * Perspective View * Realtime Walkthrough * Panning the View * Orbiting the View * Zooming into the Selection * Zooming into a Rectangle ===== Zooming into the Selection ===== **To zoom the plan or perspective view into the current selection:** - Click the Zoom Selection button that is found to the left of the screen. - If one or more objects are selected, the view will zoom to them. If nothing is selected, the view will reset and zoom to show the entire landscape. The Zoom Selection tool is very convenient, and it is recommended to use it often, especially while using the Perspective view. To zoom using the keyboard, simply press the Z key. \\ **See also:**\\ * Plan View * Perspective View * Panning the View * Orbiting the View * Zooming the View * Zooming into a Rectangle ===== Zooming into a Rectangle ===== **To zoom the plan view into a rectangle:** - Click the Zoom to Rectangle button that is found to the left of the screen. - Click and hold the left mouse button, and then move the mouse to draw a rectangle. After releasing the mouse button, the view will zoom to fill the size of the rectangle.\\ **Tips:**\\ * Zooming into a rectangle is available only in the Plan view (not the Perspective view).\\ **See also:**\\ * Plan View * Perspective View * Panning the View * Orbiting the View * Zooming into the Selection * Zooming the View ===== Orbiting the View ===== **To orbit the perspective view:** - Click the Orbit button that is found to the left of the screen. - Move your mouse cursor into the landscape design, and then hold down the left mouse button while moving the mouse in the direction you wish to rotate your view.\\ **To orbit around a specific object:** - Click the object in your design that you wish to orbit around. - Click the Zoom Selection button to center the object in your view. - Click the Orbit button found to the left of the screen. - Position your mouse cursor in the landscape design, and then hold down the left mouse button while moving the mouse in the direction you wish to rotate your view.\\ **To orbit around the entire scene:** - Ensure that no objects are selected. Click Edit and Select None if needed. - Click the Zoom to Selection button to center the entire landscape design in the viewport. - Click the Orbit button found to the left of the screen. - Position your mouse cursor in the landscape design, and then hold down the left mouse button while moving the mouse in the direction you wish to rotate your view.\\ Orbiting is the method of rotating your view while in the 3D Perspective view, and is very useful for viewing all sides of a 3D object such as a house. For example, if your viewpoint was focused on the front yard of a residence, but you need to view the back yard, you could use the Pan and Orbit tools to move your view into place.\\ **Mouse Shortcut:** The fastest way to orbit your view is to simply hold down the right mouse button while moving the mouse in the direction you wish to rotate your view. This shortcut, along with the Pan mouse shortcut, can make adjusting your view quick and easy.\\ **Tips:** * Orbiting is only available in the perspective view (not the Plan view). * The mouse cursor automatically jumps to the other side of the screen when it reaches the side of the viewport, making it easy to orbit large distances with a single mouse click.\\ **See also:** * Plan View * Perspective View * Panning the View * Zooming the View * Zooming into the Selection * Zooming into a Rectangle ===== Using the Perspective Nav Wheel ===== The Perspective Nav Wheel combines the common tools for adjusting your 3D viewpoint in one convenient place. It can be especially helpful when you are new to DATAflor GRÜNSTUDIO 3D or to 3D design software in general. The Perspective Nav Wheel is located at the lower-left of the viewport, and is partially transparent when not in use. To use it, click and hold the left mouse button over the tool you wish to use and then move the mouse. This tool only appears in the Perspective view, not the Plan view. **Tip:** If you are an advanced user, you will find that adjusting your view using the mouse shortcuts is even faster than using the Perspective Nav Wheel. To hide this tool, click View and Perspective Nav Wheel.\\ ===== Adjusting the View Height ===== To elevate your view, press and hold the + key on your keyboard. To lower your view, press and hold the – key. ====== Building Objects ====== ===== Adding a House ===== In DATAflor GRÜNSTUDIO 3D you can design a house that approximates the exterior of your client’s residence. Designing a house in DATAflor GRÜNSTUDIO 3D is a very simple process, and works very differently than typical home design programs. Houses can be designed from scratch, or a pre-built house can be added to your landscape using the House Wizard.\\ **To add a house:** - Click the Add House button found near the top of the screen under the Building tab. - Draw the outline of the house by clicking the left mouse button to add points. Press the Backspace key to remove the last point added, and press the Esc key to cancel. If you would like to input the distance and angle manually, place at least one point and then press the Enter key. - To finish drawing the house, place the last point on top of the first point. Alternately, right-click to place the last point; it will automatically connect to the first point.\\ **Tips:** * If your client wishes to have an exact view of their house, use DATAflor 2D Studio (included) to create a 2D design over a photograph of their residence. * It is easier to add a house in the Plan View|topic=Plan View, but houses can also be drawn in the Perspective view. * The snap-grid makes accurate houses easy to draw; see Snap Settings for details. * Doors, awnings, shutters, and windows can be added to your house from the appropriate objects under the Building tab. See Adding a Door|topic=Adding a Door and Adding a Window|topic=Adding a Window for more information. * Multiple house objects can be used together to create more complex houses. For example, two house objects can be overlapped to achieve unique roof lines.\\ **Gable Roofs**\\ The default roof type is “hip”, but individual roof lines can be changed to “gable” if needed. \\ **To convert from a hip to gable roof:** - Click the **Edit Roof Type** button found in the properties|topic=Setting Object Properties to enable roof editing mode. - Click the house wall underneath the part of the roof you want to change. Clicking will toggle between hip and gable styles. - After you are finished editing the roof, click the Edit Roof Type button to disable roof editing mode. ===== Designing Multistory Houses ===== Multistory houses can be created by simply stacking a top floor over a bottom floor. To do this, create the bottom story as detailed above, and then use the Add House tool to create the upper story. When the upper story is complete, increase the Elevation property of the house until the top story sits on the bottom story. For most multistory houses, it is best to set the Roof Pitch property of the bottom story to a value of “0”. This technique was used to design the house in the image below: **Tip:** To better understand how multiple story houses are created, use the House Wizard|topic=House Wizard to add a pre-built multiple story house. Next, click the Ungroup button to break the house into individual pieces. By moving the pieces you should have a good idea of how the house was put together. In the Plan View, it is usually best for only the bottom story of the house to appear because that will be the house’s “footprint”. Therefore, the upper stories of the house can be hidden in the Plan View. The steps below can be used to cause any object to appear in only the Plan view or just in the Perspective view.\\ **To prevent an object from appearing in the plan view:** - Click the desired object to select it. If more than one object needs to be selected, hold the Shift while clicking on additional items. - Nummerierter ListenpunktClick Edit and Advanced Object Properties. - Click the Render to Plan view check-box to uncheck it. - Click the OK button.\\ - For more information on other options in this dialog, see Advanced Object Properties. ===== Designing Roofs with a Single Slope ===== Roofs with a single sloping surface can be designed, which are often used when creating sheds, rectangular bay windows, carports, and more. To design a roof with a single sloping surface: 1. Click the house you wish to edit to select it. 2. Click the Edit Roof Type button found in the properties|topic=Setting Object Properties to enter roof editing mode. 3. Click each of the house walls below the roof you want to change, except for the wall that will have the lowest roof edge. 4. When you are finished, click the Edit Roof Type button again to leave roof editing mode. ===== Designing Carports ===== A carport can be designed by creating a roof without walls, which is also useful for creating covered patios, overhangs, and more.\\ **To design a roof without walls:** - Click the Add House button and create a house normally. - Move the Wall Height property to 1” or 0”. - Move the Elevation property to the desired roof height. **Customizing the Plan View** Houses can appear as either a floor plan or a realistic top-down view of the structure in the Plan view. If you wish your house to be displayed as a floor plan, select the house and click on the Custom appearance in each view checkbox (found to the right of the screen). You will now see two tabs appear to the right of the screen: Plan and Perspective. The Plan and Perspective tabs allow you to customize how the selected house will appear in each view. For example, you could set a house to look like a floor plan sketched with colored pencils in the Plan view, but to look like a realistic house in the Perspective view. To make the house look realistic in the Perspective view, simply ensure that the Custom appearance in each view checkbox is not checked.\\ Doors, lights, windows, and awnings will appear as symbols in the Plan view when displaying the house as a floor plan.\\ The default style for a floor plan is a white interior with a black outline. The outline can be changed by clicking the Line Style… button that appears to the right of the screen when your house is selected. The background of the floor plan can be modified by selecting your house and clicking the right mouse button on the small picture next to Roof material (see image below). There are three available background types for floor plans: pictures, gradients, and solid colors. For example, if you wish your floor plan to look like it was sketched with colored pencils, click the right mouse button on the image next to Roof material, select Picture, and then choose the colored pencil style of your choice. A floor plan’s line style, background, and transparency can be modified to provide a large combination of styles. In the image below, a floor plan is shown that uses a gradient background. **Building Pads**\\ A building pad can be created when placing a house on uneven terrain by flattening the terrain or using a patio as a building surface. For more information, see Area Grader and Adding a Patio.\\ **See also:** * House Properties * Selecting Objects * Editing Points|topic=Editing Points * Adding a Door * Adding a Window * Editing Objects * Adding an Area Grader * Adding a Patio ===== House Properties ===== The properties used to adjust a house are found to the right of the screen when the house is selected. It is best to first create the house before attempting to change aesthetic options like the type of house walls or the color of the trim. Below is a description of each available house property in the order that they appear in the software: ^ Roof Material ^ Description ^ |Custom appearance in each view |**The Custom appearance in each view** option can be checked to display the house as a floor plan in the Plan view. If this option is unchecked, the house will appear as a realistic structure in the Plan view.| |Plan|The **Plan** tab contains properties that affect the appearance of the house in the Plan view. This tab will not be available unless the **Custom appearance in each view** option is checked.| |Perspective| The Perspective tab contains properties that affect the appearance of the house in the Perspective view. This tab will not be available unless the Custom appearance in each view option is checked.| |Roof material|The Roof material property determines the style of the roof in the Perspective view, and the background of the house floor plan in the Plan view (if the Custom appearance in each view option is checked). To change the roof material, click the small image that displays the current material.| |Roof material options|The Roof material options can be accessed by clicking the small button that appears to the right of the Roof material image. Clicking this small button provides the same options as clicking the right mouse button on the Roof material image itself.| | | |*/