From the course: Architectural Site & Envelope in Rhino
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Building the foundation terrace level - Rhino Tutorial
From the course: Architectural Site & Envelope in Rhino
Building the foundation terrace level
- In this video, we build on top of our picture frame image from the prior video. We'll use it to block out the building terrace level, and my strategy is to assume there is no grading work required. To do this, I already made sure that all points of the terrace level we're about to create are higher than the surrounding ground. If we go over here and rotate a bit, you can see that we're clear of the ground in all points. So that should work just fine. Now this is a personal preference, but a lot of people find it annoying that this picture frame is opaque and kind of in the way. So what I recommend you do is go over to the Properties, first select it. The second button here is Material, then drag the slider down, and under Transparency, I recommend somewhere around 50%. Now once that is done, you definitely want to lock that picture frame layer so it doesn't get in the way, or you can accidentally move it very easily. Now right before we start drawing, I'd like to highlight a couple…
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