Flat, Boring Site Maps? Use AI to Elevate Them Instantly — Transcript

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1. 0:00In this tutorial, you'll learn how to
2. 0:01take an exported site map from Topo
3. 0:03export and use AI features to bring it
4. 0:06to life [music] in Rayon design, all in
5. 0:08under 10 minutes. Links to try both
6. 0:10tools for free are available in the
7. 0:11description. So, let's get started.
8. 0:17In the previous tutorials, we learned
9. 0:18how to quickly and easily export a site
10. 0:21map from Topo export and bring it into
11. 0:23Rayon design for editing, stylizing, and
12. 0:26presenting. Now, let's see what AI tools
13. 0:28both software can offer to elevate our
14. 0:31site maps. Topo export offers AI data
15. 0:33sets built on high-resolution 3D lidar
16. 0:36point cloud data for site maps. In
17. 0:38France, for example, they offer a data
18. 0:40set which accurately positions trees in
19. 0:43their individual locations and correct
20. 0:44heights and hedges as well. Stay tuned
21. 0:47for the LOD 2 building data sets,
22. 0:49including roof structures. Now, let's
23. 0:51see what AI features Rayon offers. Okay,
24. 0:53so we're back into Rayon. Let's have a
25. 0:56look at the AI panel. So, first of all,
26. 0:57I just want to jump back into my model
27. 0:59canvas and into my original drawing. So,
28. 1:01the AI panel lives on the left-hand side
29. 1:04over here. And this really is an
30. 1:06opportunity to enhance your work using
31. 1:09AI, all within the browser, all within
32. 1:11Rayon. So, you can see down here, we've
33. 1:13got add content. can add a file, so a
34. 1:15file from outside, or we can add a
35. 1:18screenshot. So, that's a screenshot of
36. 1:19your actual Rayon model space. And we
37. 1:22have a number of pre-built tools within
38. 1:24that. So, we can generate an image, so
39. 1:26whether that's just an image from text
40. 1:28or a from another image prompt. We can
41. 1:30generate a tracing, so that takes an
42. 1:32image um
43. 1:33>> [music]
44. 1:33>> and converts it into a vector drawing.
45. 1:35Uh we've got generate product, which I
46. 1:37use a lot to create blocks. So, I showed
47. 1:39you the block library previously. This
48. 1:41can turn a product image that you want
49. 1:43to use into a CAD block. We also have
50. 1:46stylize, which you can take any of your
51. 1:48existing information, so your floor
52. 1:50plans, for example, and we can add
53. 1:52styles to those. So, there are a number
54. 1:54of pre-built styles, so watercolor, clay
55. 1:57model, hand sketch, render, or wire
56. 1:59frame. And these are really effective at
57. 2:01sort of upping your aesthetic quality to
58. 2:03your drawings. And the last one is the
59. 2:04most impressive that I find is the
60. 2:06generate axonometry. And this will take
61. 2:09create an axonometric view from your 2D
62. 2:12information, which is just amazing. Now,
63. 2:14I want to take this drawing and up its
64. 2:17quality using a number of these
65. 2:19pre-built styles. So, let's see what we
66. 2:21can do. So, first of all, I'm just going
67. 2:22to turn off my symbols so the drawing's
68. 2:25nice and clean. Now, first of all, let's
69. 2:27open our panel and we can add a
70. 2:29screenshot. So, I can do that from here.
71. 2:32So, that will just snap to my rectangle
72. 2:34and I can go down to our tools. I'm
73. 2:36going to say stylize. So, let's test out
74. 2:39these different styles. So, let's try a
75. 2:41watercolor.
76. 2:43So, we can preview that and it's kept
77. 2:45all the geometry, so all the um layout
78. 2:47exactly the same and I can insert that
79. 2:49into my drawing. I can scale that up,
80. 2:51for example, and we can see that there.
81. 2:53So, that gives a really interesting
82. 2:54impression of our [music] site plan.
83. 2:57Let's try that again. Now, let's try a
84. 3:00clay model.
85. 3:03Wow. Wow, that's really interesting. So,
86. 3:05again, we can bring that in. I can scale
87. 3:08that up. Yeah, I really like that
88. 3:09effect. And then lastly, let's try
89. 3:12render. [music] So, these are obviously
90. 3:14the pre-built styles, but you could
91. 3:15prompt AI as you see fit.
92. 3:18Wow.
93. 3:20So, again, we can insert that. And we
94. 3:22can even adjust these. So, for example,
95. 3:23where this sign may have not been shown,
96. 3:26I could very easily just put a red fill
97. 3:28around this space. I'll use my picker
98. 3:30tool. Here we go. So, four really
99. 3:32interesting versions of that same site
100. 3:33plan. So, now I can easily drop those
101. 3:35onto my paper space, for example. So, so
102. 3:38I can duplicate this sheet that I've
103. 3:40already set out. So, let's create three
104. 3:42different views for our three different
105. 3:45AI maps and I can add my view from my
106. 3:49model canvas. I can crop that view down.
107. 3:52I can scale it like that. And then I can
108. 3:54basically copy that view again now that
109. 3:56I've set up the window and then I can
110. 3:58just inside that view pan [music] to my
111. 4:00next model space. I mean, say we wanted
112. 4:02to take this clay model effect, I could
113. 4:04even import some images for example.
114. 4:07Say, let's import some images of the
115. 4:10local site. Say one of the park, one of
116. 4:13the actual site building and then one of
117. 4:15the train station. And actually, I could
118. 4:18say, let's edit this image. So, I can
119. 4:22edit this image and I can go in and
120. 4:24maybe I'll make all of these match the
121. 4:27sort of tone of my render. Yeah,
122. 4:30perfect. Looks great. I could just add a
123. 4:32a text box, add [snorts] some text for
124. 4:35example. Um and then I can add some
125. 4:38titles to
126. 4:42these as well.
127. 4:45A little locator here for example. We
128. 4:48can change the size. Make this a bit
129. 4:51bolder. And then we can just drag and
130. 4:53drop those. There we go. So, very
131. 4:55quickly we've got an aesthetically
132. 4:58pleasing but accurate site model with a
133. 5:01number of views on our sheet. That wraps
134. 5:02up our mini topo export to Rayon Design
135. 5:05tutorial series. Thanks so much for
136. 5:07watching and enjoy exploring what you
137. 5:08can create with these tools using the
138. 5:10free links below.