Session Highlights:

- Controls available in the Render dashboard- Working with Lights
- Working with Materials
- Applying texture maps
- Preparing a model for rendering

Session Rating:

4/5

Session Track:

General Design and Drafting

Expertise:

All levels

PowerTrack:

AutoCAD 3D PowerTrack

Year:

2007

Who Should Attend:

Architects and other design professionals who use AutoCAD

GD219-2P Rendering Techniques in 3D AutoCAD®, Part I

Do you need to create renderings of your architectural projects? Learn how to convert 3D drawings into finished, professional-looking renderings using the tools already built into AutoCAD. In this class, you?ll learn about the AutoCAD Lighting, Materials, Textures, and Rendering commands, as well as the controls in the AutoCAD Render Dashboard. We?ll take several typical architectural models and create finished photorealistic images.

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  • David Cohn | Primary Speaker

    David has more than 25 years of hands-on experience with AutoCAD® as a user, developer, author, and consultant. He is an applications engineer with the PPI Group, a contributing editor to Desktop Engineering magazine, the former publisher and editor-in-chief of CADCAMNet and Engineering Automation Report, the former senior editor of CADalyst magazine, and the author of more than a dozen books about AutoCAD. A licensed architect, David was also one of the earliest AutoCAD third-party software developers, creating numerous AutoCAD add-on programs. As an industry consultant, David has worked with many companies including Autodesk. He teaches college-level AutoCAD courses and is always a popular presenter at both Autodesk University and AUGI CAD Camps. ... read more

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