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Retail Therapy

Good day to you all

I've been busy on houses na dgardens and a client has asked me to look at modelling their shop for designer clothes, with mannikins (?) etc I've looked in the standard library and can't find anything like display cabinets, railing etc Can anyone point me in the right direction I can't believe I will have to event the wheel??

Cheers

Chris

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Permalink Reply by Phil Tindall on March 29, 2011 at 7:59pm

Sorry Chris,

I have been specialising in retail design for many years now and I have had to invent many wheels. I never found any shop fitout symbols anywhere so I had to make my own.

Cheers

Phil

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Permalink Reply by chris brooks on March 30, 2011 at 1:24am

Thanks Phil

Yes I started to last night its just the clothes and shoes that I'm going to have a job over!! The rails and cabinets etc I've done

Thanks for getting back to me...

Cheers
Chris

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Permalink Reply by Phil Tindall on March 30, 2011 at 3:34am

You want to model clothes & shoes? That'll be fun.

My recommendation? Use image props.

Cheers

Phil

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Permalink Reply by chris brooks on March 30, 2011 at 5:16am

You've lost me here, Phil -the standard image props that come with Vectorworks??

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Permalink Reply by Phil Tindall on March 30, 2011 at 12:35pm

No Chris, you can make your own...of anything.

Images of shoes or clothes can be made look like 3D by applying a mask to the texture.

They are the best way to include irregular organic objects (plants, people) to your renderings.

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Permalink Reply by Donald Ward on March 31, 2011 at 6:58am

Here's a video tech tip on how to create image props. http://kbase.vectorworks.net/questions/459/Image+Props

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Permalink Reply by chris brooks on March 31, 2011 at 12:19pm

Thanks Donald sounds so easy I'll give it a go....

Chris

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Permalink Reply by chris brooks on April 5, 2011 at 10:15am

Oh and now I've got to put signage on the wall.... so how do I convert the font into 3D???

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Permalink Reply by Phil Tindall on April 5, 2011 at 2:18pm

Go to Text/True type to polyline to convert. Use a large font size and scale it down once you have cleaned up the polylines. I find the polylines produced are a bit crude, too many vertices and I usually smooth them out and rationalise the vertices befor extruding them to produce 3D letters.

Of course a quick, cheats way is to use a bitmap of the logo to make an image prop. Paint the back ground of the letters in a distinct colour that is easy to select as a transparent mask.