Walkthrough

[J]

Is there any way on autocad to do a walkthrough, or to adjust your position, where you are looking, not zooming in or out, but actually change where your poistion is? The reason I am asking is that I need to view a structure from a few diffrent areas of the structure, and I would like to be able to swivel around a room from within it, not just to zoom in to it, so that when I orbit the picture I get is not very helpfull. Thank you.

J

[sp]

I have several 3D viewers that I use. I find purchasing a viewer was the best solution for us. You can Fly through walls become as small as a bug and look at every nick and cranny. You can look for Navisworks or a cheaper but just as good version at http://www.imtechdesign.com/3dview/#SIG

[CADTutor]

Why not try the old DVIEW command. Sill available from the command line but almost undocumented now since 3D Orbit arrived. It enables you to construct perspective views from known points and looking at target points. See the tutorial here http://www.cadtutor.net/acad/acadr14/perspect/perspect.html#DVIEW

You can't create a walkthrough with AutoCAD alone since there's no animation feature but you could put together a storyboard of images constructed using DVIEW.

[J]

I have tried to use the dview comand, using points, but the view that I get with that command is not from the camera point to the target point it is just the angle that I specified. I am asking because I have designed a structure, and I would likt to get in and view a single room in the structure, and be able to swivel around that one room, and save the view to make a slideshow. Is this possible with dview, or is anothe program required for me to do this? thank you for all comments and assistance.

J

[CADTutor]

J, if you follow the tutorial I pointed you to in the previous post, you will see that you can create a perspective view from a known camera point to a known target point using the DVIEW command.