Six Plates Illustration
For DataCAD Users, following discussion: This is a clarification of the Six Plates. You can see the six plates, which I've made as 12" square panes of glass. Each is exactly 10' away from the center point. For clarity in this discussion, I've joined all with 2" diamond struts, running from the center of each pane of glass to dead center. Each strut is 10' long. Six struts. All that stuff grouped. Now, for this discussion, I moved all that so that the centerpoint in plan view is centered at the face of the stone trim. Originally the center dot was at +0'. But next I moved the group of six panes and struts so the center was at +5'-6". You can see, then, how this "forces" a centerpoint during 3D viewing o2c to be exactly where I placed it, both in plan AND vertically, as o2c reads the "limits" of the stuff. It is very important that you set your six panes of glass out far enough so that no other stuff projects beyond that SPHERE. Not a Cube, mind you, but a SPHERE. While this seems silly for something as simple as this iron grille, the same technique can be used to force a center on any model. Same was used for Villa Girasole. So when I launched o2c, I knew exactly where spin center and, more importantly, Eye Level was. Essential to know Eye Level precisely for the best walk-thru effect.
Six Plates Illustration
For DataCAD Users, following discussion: This is a clarification of the Six Plates. You can see the six plates, which I've made as 12" square panes of glass. Each is exactly 10' away from the center point. For clarity in this discussion, I've joined all with 2" diamond struts, running from the center of each pane of glass to dead center. Each strut is 10' long. Six struts. All that stuff grouped. Now, for this discussion, I moved all that so that the centerpoint in plan view is centered at the face of the stone trim. Originally the center dot was at +0'. But next I moved the group of six panes and struts so the center was at +5'-6". You can see, then, how this "forces" a centerpoint during 3D viewing o2c to be exactly where I placed it, both in plan AND vertically, as o2c reads the "limits" of the stuff. It is very important that you set your six panes of glass out far enough so that no other stuff projects beyond that SPHERE. Not a Cube, mind you, but a SPHERE. While this seems silly for something as simple as this iron grille, the same technique can be used to force a center on any model. Same was used for Villa Girasole. So when I launched o2c, I knew exactly where spin center and, more importantly, Eye Level was. Essential to know Eye Level precisely for the best walk-thru effect.