2D to 3D question

Hello all. First post on here...

I do a lot of 2D drawings of buildings, floor plans and elevations. How easy would it be to make the elevation 2D drawings a vertical part of a 3D drawings.

Not sure how to word it but it would be to take the floor plan as the horizontal plane and then take the elevations and make it the vertical plane.

Hope that makes sence..

Many Thanks

cadmikee

In the case of 2d drawings all the objects are supposed to be in one plane only. But 3d objects have elevation also. Here the objects have a volume too. Not only length and width. Here the objects are made as if they are real life objects. In your case you will be making a house in 3d as a real house with foundations, walls, openings, roof etc. So you need not to make various views. At the same time you can view the objecs from various directions such as top, front, left etc. These views with suitable modifications can be converted as 2d drawings namly plans, or elevations or side views.

When I first started using CAD I did only 2D. There were 3D people all around spinning the story about how you should draw in 3D and make your views construct your 2D stuff. And even worse, there was always the story about how you could just add thickness to your 2D stuff and viola, you've got 3D.

Well it's not really that simple. And the way you word your question I assume you're probably heading down the same path I did when I first started with 3D.

You could, in practice, make a floor plan, then import an elevation and 3DROTATE one of them 90° and position them so they fit together. But this would not only look like crap it would be difficult to read anything in detail because so many lines would be overlapping.

The real story to 3D is like shinymathew says. You actually construct the slab, the walls, the doors etc... as shapes and then place them in relation to one another. You can do this in a very simple manner or get extremely complex. It's your choice. And then you can add windows, furnishings, people, automobiles, animals, tress, birds, etc...get the picture.

I find CAD an amazing way of creating drawings whether 2D or 3D because one can actually build a real life model of what you're trying to convey to someone. In 3D it gets into even more detail but it's not as simple as the spin says it is. My advice is to read tutorials, ask lots of questions and practice, practice, practice. My journey into 3D started about 6 months ago and while I made great strides right away, the finer points only came once I practiced over and over again. Reading a tutorial is one thing, but then actually applying what you learn to your own drawings is how you really get down with it.

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Oops, never mind - I see you are using AutoCAD LT 2006