Site Maps That Don’t Impress? Create a Clean 2D Presentation That Wins — Transcript

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1. 0:00In this tutorial, you'll learn how to
2. 0:01turn an exported sitemap from Topo
3. 0:03Export into a polished presentation
4. 0:06sheet using Rayon Design in under 10
5. 0:08minutes. Links to try both tools for
6. 0:10free are available in the description.
7. 0:12So, let's get started.
8. 0:16In the previous tutorial, we learned how
9. 0:18to quickly and easily export a sitemap
10. 0:20from top export and bring it into Rayon
11. 0:22design for editing and stylizing. Now,
12. 0:24let's set it up for presentation. Having
13. 0:26got the site plan into rayon and now
14. 0:29refine the aesthetic. I want to place it
15. 0:32on a sheet. So let me talk to you about
16. 0:34that. So so the site plan is currently
17. 0:35in the model canvas. So you can see
18. 0:37there model canvas. I want to create a
19. 0:39paper canvas. So this is how you set up
20. 0:41a sheet. So paper canvas it will say
21. 0:43your paper canvas doesn't contain any
22. 0:45pages. So we can create a page. I can
23. 0:47say that's an A4. I could say that's
24. 0:49portrait or landscape. And this piece of
25. 0:51paper will be one one. So this is
26. 0:53drawing at full scale. Just like in your
27. 0:55model canvas you're drawing on one to
28. 0:57one. So next step is to look in the
29. 0:59rayon block library. So I'm a big fan of
30. 1:02the rayon block library. It has a
31. 1:04variety of so many different blocks. So
32. 1:07over 10,000 top front and side views of
33. 1:11different blocks. So things from
34. 1:13animals, bathrooms, bathtubs, chairs,
35. 1:16dentist office equipment, heating,
36. 1:18cooling, gym, anything you could want
37. 1:21exists in the block library. So, take
38. 1:24this double bed for example. I can just
39. 1:26drag that in and I can look at the
40. 1:29different views I've got. So, I've
41. 1:31[music] got a front view, a side
42. 1:32viewing, a side view, and a top view.
43. 1:35So, I know when I'm creating my plan
44. 1:37section and elevations, that element is
45. 1:39matching spot on. But in this instance,
46. 1:42I want to have a look at the title
47. 1:43block. So, alongside all different
48. 1:44things about furniture, they also have
49. 1:46elements of annotation um and title
50. 1:49sheets. So, let's scroll down to uh
51. 1:51title sheets, title blocks, and
52. 1:53annotations. There we go. And I can find
53. 1:55A3 title block here. If I couldn't find
54. 1:58it, I could use the search function. So,
55. 2:00I could say A3 title, for example. Drag
56. 2:05one of these in. The really helpful
57. 2:06thing is that I can edit these blocks
58. 2:08myself as well. So, I could go in, I
59. 2:10could, you know, you see here it's got a
60. 2:12pre-populated element. So, I could go
61. 2:13in, I could change the logo for my own
62. 2:16business. I can adapt the sheet as I
63. 2:18want and I can resave that as a block or
64. 2:20share it to my own company. So once
65. 2:22that's set up, I can now find a view. So
66. 2:25from layers, I go to view which is here
67. 2:28and I get a view from my m my model
68. 2:30canvas. So I'm basically taking a look
69. 2:32at my model canvas at a certain size. So
70. 2:35you see here it adds in a window and I
71. 2:38can set a scale. So So we want 25,500
72. 2:42for example. So that sets my building.
73. 2:46So I could then crop this view. So I can
74. 2:49crop my window down a closer up view
75. 2:52there. And then maybe I can create a
76. 2:55another view at a much smaller scale
77. 2:58here for example and call this 1 to
78. 3:0110,000
79. 3:02for example. Get that cropped nicely.
80. 3:04[music]
81. 3:05You can see there got our different
82. 3:07drawing types. You can also see that the
83. 3:09line types scale with the view. I can go
84. 3:11into different layers and find things
85. 3:13though. So say for example for that view
86. 3:14that solid line looked a bit too much. I
87. 3:17can turn that off. With the drawing
88. 3:18looking good I can go in and I can edit
89. 3:21the title block for example. So I could
90. 3:22delete these elements and I could import
91. 3:25for example um my standard logo. So
92. 3:29that's just a PNG with a transparent
93. 3:31[music] background and bring that in and
94. 3:33scale it. And then that sits as part of
95. 3:35that block family that I can reuse
96. 3:37again. I can even add parameters to the
97. 3:40sheet. So you can see down here I could
98. 3:42add a parameter that allows me to have a
99. 3:45different drawing sheet number. For
100. 3:46example, I could have some text that
101. 3:48says drawing sheet. And then I could say
102. 3:52we're going to add a instance property
103. 3:55over here. Create a new one. So we call
104. 3:57that drawing number. Set that to a
105. 4:01number value. Save that. Go back into my
106. 4:04block. I can delete this text and I can
107. 4:07add a variable. I can add a variable. Go
108. 4:10to instance, find my drawing number.
109. 4:13There we go. Press okay. And that means
110. 4:15that when I go into this bar on the
111. 4:18side, I can change my drawing number and
112. 4:20say 1 2 3 4 5 and that will update on my
113. 4:23drawing sheet. And that means that when
114. 4:25I reuse that title sheet again and
115. 4:26again, I just need to fill in that
116. 4:28instance property on the right hand
117. 4:30side. Perfect. The other thing I want to
118. 4:32show you is that Rayon comes with a
119. 4:34whole host of templates. So if I go back
120. 4:37to my account, I can jump down here to
121. 4:39templates. You can see here that it has
122. 4:41so many different types of drawings
123. 4:43already set up. So from detailed
124. 4:45elements like milwork drawings to floor
125. 4:47plans for different types of buildings
126. 4:49and technical plans. So what I find
127. 4:52today is their site analysis symbol. So
128. 4:55I'll bring [music] those in and I'll
129. 4:57just scale them up and see them there.
130. 4:59And we have things from being able to
131. 5:01identify different transport links,
132. 5:03different elements of facilities, park
133. 5:06elements, uh, north points, different
134. 5:09arrows, prevailing wind direction, sun
135. 5:12paths, all the different things that
136. 5:13[music] you might need when analyzing a
137. 5:15site. So, we can very quickly just drag
138. 5:18and drop these things onto our page. Can
139. 5:21add a prevailing wind direction here.
140. 5:25Maybe some transport link icons as well.
141. 5:29And as long as we make sure that these
142. 5:31are all on our top layer, when we go
143. 5:34back to [music] our drawing set, I can
144. 5:36make sure that then turned off in this
145. 5:39view so it doesn't muddy up our sort of
146. 5:41site location drawing but is shown on
147. 5:43our more detailed plan. You know, if we
148. 5:44wanted to, we could even add in a new
149. 5:47view of the model canvas that
150. 5:49specifically looks at this window
151. 5:52and acts as a bit of a key for your
152. 5:54drawing set. And then we can just add
153. 5:56[music] titles to each of the drawings.
154. 5:58So we could say this is a site vacation
155. 6:01plan 1 to 10,000.
156. 6:04And just like with all the other styles,
157. 6:06I could, you know, change my text style,
158. 6:09I can change the font, I can change the
159. 6:12size, any element like that. And I could
160. 6:15save that as titles for example. And
161. 6:19that means that whenever I go back in, I
162. 6:21know that each of these things matches.
163. 6:24So now let's export the drawing. So we
164. 6:27can export the drawing in multiple
165. 6:28different ways. So one is the
166. 6:30traditional export. [music] So we can
167. 6:31export an image. So that could just be a
168. 6:34as a PNG. So I can determine the quality
169. 6:37and the stroke scale. So whether we're
170. 6:39looking at the page or the screen, I
171. 6:40would advise the page. Um and then give
172. 6:42that a name. Alternatively, I can export
173. 6:45it as a PDF. So again, I just set that
174. 6:48to PDF. I can change the resolution. So
175. 6:50high, medium, or low. Export the name
176. 6:52and then again choose whether it's page
177. 6:54or screen. But the really powerful thing
178. 6:56in Rayon is to share the presentation.
179. 6:58So I can go into share and I can do a
180. 7:00number of things. So I can share my
181. 7:02styles. So all those styles that I've
182. 7:04set up, I can share those with the rest
183. 7:06of my team. Um I could share my blocks.
184. 7:08So publish those blocks that um again
185. 7:10that I've set up like my title block for
186. 7:12example, I can publish that and share
187. 7:14that with the rest of my team. Or I can
188. 7:15share a presentation. That's really
189. 7:17really powerful. So I will publish this
190. 7:20sheet as a presentation. So I just click
191. 7:22on that toggle that gives me a link and
192. 7:24I can copy that. So I can send that in
193. 7:26an email to a client. So ultimately that
194. 7:29avoids all those things like having to
195. 7:31export your PDF, upload it to a file
196. 7:33transfer site, send the link. So all in
197. 7:36here and you just need to send that link
198. 7:38and I can open it directly from Rayon.
199. 7:40So again that just gives me a
200. 7:41presentation ready looking drawing
201. 7:44that's all within the browser. And
202. 7:46[music] the really really powerful thing
203. 7:48is if I go back and I say, "Oh,
204. 7:50actually, not sure about that one. Let's
205. 7:53move the key title over here." I've now
206. 7:56updated that drawing, but I don't have
207. 7:58to give another link. All I have to do
208. 8:00is press this little update button and
209. 8:03press update. The link remains the same,
210. 8:05but the information on the link has been
211. 8:07updated. So, if you're giving links to
212. 8:10your clients, they only need to look at
213. 8:11those one um links, not have to mess
214. 8:13about between lots of different things.
215. 8:16There we go. Thanks so much for
216. 8:17watching. Try the workflow yourself
217. 8:19using the links below and start turning
218. 8:20your maps into polished presentations.
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