In retrospect, I should have imported simple proxies of these houses and used those to do the grading. It would be a lot faster to do the importing in Lumion, but I thought (erroneously) that with a development that was so much smaller than the last one that I could assemble all the houses in a single file and then do lot grading and driveway grading with the houses right there on the mesh.
Lumion 8 move import model pdf#
I bring in the base house geometry into Sketchup, make some fine geometry adjustments, swap out special components and paint it up, this goes to sit in a catalog which I draw from to populate the development per an initial product layout PDF I have. Imagine a smooth wall cut by triangular voids. The lap siding is just a wall profile, not individual lap pieces. In-house cad -> Revit–>Sketchup–>Lumion–>Premiere Pro. However - the first one was on a mostly flat terrain, and this one is on a mesh - so I have to do labor intensive things like lot grading and driveway grading.
This is the second large development I’ve done, the first was over 1,000 houses, this is over 400, so it’s actually smaller overall. May I share a bit about my workflow - so you could give feedback / advice?
Wow - thanks so much Sam! I hate for you to spend time on this on a nice summer weekend though.Īn alternative would be for me to just hear a little bit more about your workflow and how you organize things. It probably wont help your looming deadline but might give some useful info for the future. I’m happy to take a look at your project on the weekend if you can send me a file via dropbox or onedrive or similar. Could also be that you’re importing things a long way from the model origin (or using different geolocation settings). The slowness also suggests something might be a miss in the format Importing 4mb but from a different program format which has been (poorly) converted to SKP? Might be best to open it and explode and reorganise the conponents/layers etc prior to import. try to reduce the number of groups and components (all cladding pieces dont need to be in individual groups). One big improvement might be to turn off edges, hide them where possible. Any chance the buildings are imported from Archicad ?
Your file size suggests a lot of similar houses but with a LOT of components and groups (otherwise file size should be much higher). I work on similar projects (housing developments).Ģ00mb is a fairly small file for me (1.5gb is a big file) but I’ve developed a lot of workflow techniques that make things manageable (including sending to lumion).
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