DomuS3D Pegasus software User Guide

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DomuS3D® Pegasus User Manual
Published by Maticad s.r.l.
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Congrats, you and your DomuS3D® Pegasus were made for each other.
Thank you for joining us, and welcome on board!
Dear Customer,
Let me warmly thank you for choosing DomuS3D®.
As you already know, DomuS3D® is the leading interior design technology for the Ceramic Tiles, Covering materials, Sanitary
ware and furnishing industries, with fairly 25 years experience shared with the most important Manufacturers and Points of
Sale in the world.
It is for this reason that, together with the software, you have the opportunity of taking advantage of the widest collection of
libraries.
Our Catalogues Department works day by day in order to share new and trendy items with you, so that you can speed up your
design process for your customer: in Maticad we know that the wider elements and tiles catalogues you have, the quicker and
more successful you’ll be while planning.
Moreover, DomuS3D® Development Department is always on in order to let the software evolve benefitting of new
technologies for the interior design for the foresaid markets.
All this should make you feel that you’ve done the right choice for your business.
Our goal, now, is to start siding you while training on the application, so that you will soon be ready to use all the power
DomuS3D® is able to grant you.
Thank you again for your choice: enjoy your DomuS3D® Pegasus!
Massimo Rossini
Board of Directors, MATICAD s.r.l.
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Table of Contents
ABOUT THIS MANUAL .................................................................................................................... 11
PURPOSE ....................................................................................................................................... 11
ORGANIZATION OF THE MANUAL ................................................................................................... 11
HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL ............................................................................................................ 12
ASSUMPTIONS AND METHODS ........................................................................................................ 12
Drag&Drop............................................................................................................ 12
THE SAMPLE PROJECT .................................................................................................................... 13
PART 1......................................................................................................................... 14
INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................... 14
WHAT’S NEW IN DOMUS3D® PEGASUS ......................................................................................... 14
HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS ................................................................................. 15
INSTALLATION PROCEDURE ........................................................................................................... 16
AVAILABLE LANGUAGES ............................................................................................................... 18
INITIAL OPERATIONS AND CONFIGURATION SETTINGS........................... 19
UP-TO-DATE IMAGES AND CHAPTERS IN THIS MANUAL.................................................................... 20
STARTING THE PROGRAM ............................................................................................................... 20
LIVE! PAGE ................................................................................................................................... 20
RIBBON ......................................................................................................................................... 21
DEFAULT SHORTCUTS.................................................................................................................... 22
PROPERTIES PANEL ........................................................................................................................ 24
COMPONENTS WINDOW ................................................................................................................. 30
CATALOGUES DOWNLOAD .................................................................................. 34
THE CATALOGUES DOWNLOAD SERVICE ........................................................................................ 35
TERMS OF USE ............................................................................................................................... 35
HOW TO USE THE CATALOGUES DOWNLOAD MODULE .................................................................... 35
Step 1/5: register .................................................................................................... 35
Step 2/5: connect .................................................................................................... 36
Step 3/5: open catalogues....................................................................................... 36
Step 4/5: download catalogues ............................................................................... 37
Step 5/5: install catalogues .................................................................................... 37
Download of single objects .................................................................................... 38
PART 2......................................................................................................................... 39
QUICK STEP GUIDE ................................................................................................ 39
WHY A QUICK STEP GUIDE? .......................................................................................................... 39
(Create a new project) By using existing room templates....................................... 39
Move walls ............................................................................................................. 39
Placing doors and windows.................................................................................... 40
Placing objects in layout ........................................................................................ 40
How to open Navigation ......................................................................................... 41
(Navigate the scene in 3D) With your mouse.......................................................... 41
(Tile the floor) With a single tile (solid pattern) ..................................................... 42
Tile all walls with a single tile (solid pattern, strip by strip) .................................. 42
Launch the rendering process ................................................................................ 43
The Sample Project ................................................................................................ 44
PART 3......................................................................................................................... 45
CHAPTER 1: LAYOUT ............................................................................................. 45
CREATION ..................................................................................................................................... 45
By using existing templates .................................................................................... 45
Rectangular Room.................................................................................................. 45
Free hand drawing ................................................................................................. 45
By using CAD 2D tools (in empty project) ............................................................. 46
Save room in components ....................................................................................... 47
HOW TO MOVE .............................................................................................................................. 48
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With your mouse..................................................................................................... 48
With your keyboard ................................................................................................ 48
MODIFICATION .............................................................................................................................. 49
Move walls ............................................................................................................. 49
Walls height and width ........................................................................................... 49
Columns ................................................................................................................. 49
Holes/Niches .......................................................................................................... 50
Sloping roofs .......................................................................................................... 50
Moving corners ...................................................................................................... 51
Splitting existing walls............................................................................................ 51
Subdividing the room ............................................................................................. 51
UNDO.......................................................................................................................................... 52
SHORTCUTS AVAILABLE IN LAYOUT WINDOW ................................................................................ 52
AVAILABLE SNAPS IN LAYOUT ....................................................................................................... 53
CHAPTER 2: NAVIGATION .................................................................................... 54
THE NAVIGATION WINDOW ........................................................................................................... 54
Introduction............................................................................................................ 54
How to open Navigation ......................................................................................... 54
Refresh ................................................................................................................... 54
HOW TO MOVE .............................................................................................................................. 55
With your mouse..................................................................................................... 55
With your keyboard ................................................................................................ 55
With your SpaceNavigator ..................................................................................... 56
Use standard view points ....................................................................................... 56
NAVIGATION USEFUL FEATURES .................................................................................................... 57
Save current point of view ...................................................................................... 57
Change Field of View ............................................................................................. 57
Set background ....................................................................................................... 57
Advanced effects in Navigation window ................................................................. 57
CHAPTER 3: ELEMENTS ........................................................................................ 59
ADD OBJECTS TO PROJECT ............................................................................................................. 59
Choosing from components window ....................................................................... 59
Placing doors and windows.................................................................................... 59
Doors and windows properties ............................................................................... 60
Placing objects in layout ........................................................................................ 61
Avoid automatic rotation ........................................................................................ 61
Align the object to angled walls ............................................................................. 61
Detailed position in the layout................................................................................ 61
Placing objects in navigation window .................................................................... 62
From external file (DXF/3DS)................................................................................ 62
From external file (DAE) ....................................................................................... 63
Drawing with CAD 2D tools .................................................................................. 63
MODIFICATION .............................................................................................................................. 64
Move....................................................................................................................... 64
Rotate ..................................................................................................................... 64
Copy (Duplicate) .................................................................................................... 64
Delete ..................................................................................................................... 64
Change object size (Resize) .................................................................................... 65
Stretch the object (Extend) ..................................................................................... 65
Mirror .................................................................................................................... 66
Modify items details ............................................................................................... 66
MATERIALS................................................................................................................................... 66
Check existing ........................................................................................................ 66
Assign new from components window .................................................................... 67
Assign material to all walls and ceiling.................................................................. 67
CHAPTER 4: LAYING COVERING MATERIALS ............................................... 68
COVER THE FLOOR ........................................................................................................................ 68
With a single tile (solid pattern) ............................................................................. 68
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Using dynamic patterns .......................................................................................... 69
Change the grout of existing patterns ..................................................................... 70
Change the origin (starting point) of the pattern .................................................... 70
Delete the floor coverings ...................................................................................... 71
Change all floor tiles .............................................................................................. 71
Change some tiles only ........................................................................................... 71
COVER THE WALLS ........................................................................................................................ 72
Tile all walls with a single tile (solid pattern, strip by strip) .................................. 72
Roll-back the last strip ........................................................................................... 73
Change strips height, manually .............................................................................. 73
Change strips height with tiles number .................................................................. 73
Save dynamic panel ................................................................................................ 73
Move strips up/down .............................................................................................. 74
Single wall with a single tile (solid pattern) ........................................................... 75
Change strip origin and alignment ......................................................................... 76
Using dynamic patterns .......................................................................................... 76
Tile a shower-box corner ....................................................................................... 76
Vertical tiling ......................................................................................................... 77
Tile an insert .......................................................................................................... 78
ADVANCED FEATURES ................................................................................................................... 79
Tile a countertop .................................................................................................... 79
Change the existing grout colour ........................................................................... 79
Rotate existing tiling............................................................................................... 80
Switch view from Floor to Walls in 2D................................................................... 80
CHAPTER 5: RENDERING ...................................................................................... 81
INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................. 81
Choose the engine .................................................................................................. 81
Comparison between mental ray® and V-Ray........................................................ 82
RENDERING BY USING V-RAY........................................................................................................ 83
Launch the rendering process ................................................................................ 83
V-Ray RT ................................................................................................................ 89
How to manage lights............................................................................................. 93
Sun light (sun and sky) ........................................................................................... 93
Sun light section ..................................................................................................... 93
Artificial lights ....................................................................................................... 98
Light made by holes and windows (Portal light) .................................................. 101
Materials and the rendering in V-Ray .................................................................. 103
Materials for objects and furnishing elements...................................................... 103
Bump Maps .......................................................................................................... 115
Stones: the Displacement map.............................................................................. 115
Materials Advanced parameters........................................................................... 118
Materials in projects ............................................................................................ 120
RENDERING BY USING MENTAL RAY® ........................................................................................... 121
Launch the rendering process .............................................................................. 121
Lights management .............................................................................................. 124
Natural light (sun light)........................................................................................ 124
Artificial lights ..................................................................................................... 127
Light diffused by doors and windows (Portal light).............................................. 130
Managing materials, textures and effects ............................................................. 131
Materials for objects and furnishing elements...................................................... 131
Managing materials while inside a project .......................................................... 131
Managing materials from application database ................................................... 138
Materials for tiles ................................................................................................. 139
RENDER MANAGER ..................................................................................................................... 140
License ................................................................................................................. 140
The rendering job ................................................................................................. 140
How to use Render Manager ................................................................................ 141
The rendering results ........................................................................................... 143
BIBLIOGRAPHY ........................................................................................................................... 144
mental ray®, English books ................................................................................. 144
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mental ray®, Italian books ................................................................................... 144
V-Ray, English books ........................................................................................... 144
V-Ray, Italian books ............................................................................................. 144
CHAPTER 6: ESTIMATE, PRINT, SHARE ......................................................... 145
ESTIMATE ................................................................................................................................... 145
Calculate the project estimate .............................................................................. 145
Optimized or exact calculation ............................................................................. 146
Change item’s waste factor .................................................................................. 147
Export the estimate ............................................................................................... 147
Print the estimate ................................................................................................. 148
PRINT.......................................................................................................................................... 150
Blueprint for the installer ..................................................................................... 150
Floor/Walls blueprint for the installer.................................................................. 152
Print project summary .......................................................................................... 153
SHARE ........................................................................................................................................ 155
Share single Panoramas....................................................................................... 155
Advanced Panoramas........................................................................................... 157
TouchFly module .................................................................................................. 157
CHAPTER 7: DATABASE ...................................................................................... 158
MAINTENANCE ............................................................................................................................ 158
Backup procedure for the Standalone version ...................................................... 158
Backup procedure for the Client/Server version................................................... 158
TILES .......................................................................................................................................... 159
Create your own single tile................................................................................... 159
Load multiple tiles with 1 click ............................................................................. 159
FURNISHING ELEMENTS (3D OBJECTS)......................................................................................... 160
Load a new object in the library ........................................................................... 160
Group existing objects in a single item in library ................................................. 161
Load complete pricelist in the Application database ............................................ 162
CHAPTER 8: TOUCHFLY MODULE ................................................................... 165
TOUCHFLY: AVAILABLE IN ULTIMATE VERSION ........................................................................... 165
WHAT CAN I DO WITH TOUCHFLY? .............................................................................................. 165
Complete (extend) the Application libraries ......................................................... 165
Share and Visualize the extended libraries on the iPAD ...................................... 165
Share and Visualize the extended libraries on Touch Screens in my Showroom... 165
Create multi-room panoramas ............................................................................. 166
USING THE EDITOR...................................................................................................................... 166
How to customize (extend) an existing catalogue ................................................. 166
Extended 360° Panoramas ................................................................................... 167
Connect Panoramas each other ........................................................................... 167
SHARE THE EXTENDED CATALOGUES ........................................................................................... 169
Create a playlist ................................................................................................... 169
Synchronize a Playlist on your iPad ..................................................................... 169
Browsing the catalogue in TouchFly for iPad ...................................................... 171
Basket: the way you save needed items ................................................................ 173
CHAPTER 9: MODULAR FURNISHING MODULE .......................................... 174
THE WAY IT WORKS ..................................................................................................................... 174
INSTALL AND REGISTER THE ADDITIONAL MODULE ....................................................................... 175
Download the setup DVD ..................................................................................... 175
HOW TO USE THE INTEGRATED MODULE IN DOMUS3D® ............................................................... 175
Launch the integrated module .............................................................................. 175
Import modular composition in project ................................................................ 176
Change the composition ....................................................................................... 176
TRAINING, CONTACTS AND SUPPORT ............................................................................................ 176
Learning how to use Arredocad ........................................................................... 176
Company details ................................................................................................... 176
Support ................................................................................................................. 176
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PART 4....................................................................................................................... 177
THE SAMPLE PROJECT ....................................................................................... 177
Layout .................................................................................................................. 178
Doors and windows .............................................................................................. 179
Placing objects ..................................................................................................... 180
Tile the floor ......................................................................................................... 183
Tile walls .............................................................................................................. 184
Changing walls material ...................................................................................... 187
Rendering the scene with V-Ray ........................................................................... 189
Download Sample Project .................................................................................... 191
PART 5....................................................................................................................... 192
APPENDIX ................................................................................................................ 192
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ) ..................................................................................... 192
Introduction.......................................................................................................... 192
Installation/Upgrade ............................................................................................ 192
Starting application .............................................................................................. 193
Database .............................................................................................................. 193
Live Page ............................................................................................................. 194
Project .................................................................................................................. 194
Tiling and Navigation........................................................................................... 195
Rendering ............................................................................................................. 195
Unexpected shutdown ........................................................................................... 196
WHAT’S NEW IN PEGASUS COMPARING TO ANTARES: DETAILED LIST ............................................ 197
Application interface: Ribbon and shortcuts ........................................................ 197
Live! page............................................................................................................. 197
Dividing a room ................................................................................................... 197
Navigation window............................................................................................... 198
Change strips height, manually ............................................................................ 198
Change strips height with tiles number ................................................................ 199
Shower box corner ............................................................................................... 199
Tiles layer............................................................................................................. 199
Tiles layer and vertical tiling ............................................................................... 199
Estimate................................................................................................................ 200
V-Ray: new rendering engine ............................................................................... 200
Dynamic rendering with V-Ray RT....................................................................... 201
Distributed rendering with V-Ray ........................................................................ 202
Render Manager................................................................................................... 202
Multi-room ........................................................................................................... 202
Technical blueprints ............................................................................................. 203
Windows on horizontal ceiling ............................................................................. 203
Change tile ........................................................................................................... 203
Components window ............................................................................................ 204
Import TilePlanner projects ................................................................................. 204
Modular furnishing module .................................................................................. 205
CONTACTS .................................................................................................................................. 206
Support Team ....................................................................................................... 206
Catalogues Department........................................................................................ 206
Marketing Department ......................................................................................... 206
Account Manager ................................................................................................. 206
Suggestions and improvements: Wish List............................................................ 207
EPILOGUE ................................................................................................................................... 208
INDEX........................................................................................................................ 209
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About this manual
The Reference Manual is a general guide that contains all the necessary information that enables the users to work with the
program.
The manual is structured in order to provide you the most important information regarding the different sections of the
application.
This manual refers to DomuS3D® Pegasus application, compatible with Windows™ Vista (with SP2), Windows™ 7 (with SP1),
Windows™ 8.1 operating systems, and available in 2 different versions:
Single license (also called stand-alone license): it is the normal single user licence that requires a USB hardware key (also called
dongle) in order to operate. The program can be installed on multiple computers but the program will start and run only if the
dongle is plugged-in
Client/Server Licence: usually used for multiple workstations/designers sharing the same database/catalogues installed on a
server machine. This installation requires a connection to multiple computers either through a local area network (LAN) or through
a geographic network on Internet support (VPN), provided it is high performing in terms of efficiency and speed of data transfer.
In this case, the protection dongle will be plugged-in just in the server machine (or any other PC of the network, provided that it’ll
be always switched on). The designer will be able to connect from any computer of the network, profiling with his username and
password. The System Administrator will take care of creating backups just on the server (and we encourage to plan daily or weekly
backups), and statistics will be available checking designers efficiency and productivity
Purpose
This Manual was written to:
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•
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Teach new DomuS3D® users about the process of setting up a project architecture, fill it with 3D Objects, tile floors,
walls and objects. New users will also learn all aspects related to rendering the scene in the best and most effective
way, in order to be more successful while in the marketing side. In the technical side, users will be guided through
project estimate and blueprints, so that the installer will be able to understand how the job has to be done. Finally,
knowing how to manage the internal catalogues (database) is crucial in order to have available the items needed
while designing and planning, right when you need them;
Teach those who already are customers from the previous versions about the new features available in the latest
version (Pegasus); the manual will give them the opportunity of concentrating just on the pieces of news;
Give experienced DomuS3D® users some advanced information in order to keep on improving their knowledge on
the software. Even if you are an advanced user, there’s always something more and new to know, and here we are
to share with you all details about the application. The first release of the manual, planned for February 2014, may
not include the advanced section, as this has been planned for the second release (April 2014). For this reason we
encourage you to keep your Manual up to date, connecting to the Live Page time to time and checking if any new
version is available;
Organization of the manual
This Manual is organized into five different parts:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Part 1: The Software Setup and Configuration explains the hardware configuration we suggest you to process before
installing, as well as the procedure to follow up in order to install and configure the Application.
Part 2: Quick Step Guide is a very quick summary, listing the most relevant features (available in Part 3) you need to
learn to create a project. Read this section only if at this stage you don’t have time to read the all manual.
Part 3: The Software User Manual explains the state-of-the-art of the Application. It is the real User Guide as it covers
everything from room architecture to 3D Objects management, to coverings materials layout, to rendering
techniques, to technical blueprints, etc… Read this part carefully to learn how to push the Application max of the
power.
Part 4: The Sample Project is a complete step-by-step example of creating a standard project.
Part 5: Appendices contains sections like FAQ and Troubleshooting guide, that may be helpful in case of some
difficulties while in the creation process
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How to use this manual
As an author who put a lot of work into this book, we’d love it if everyone who picks up this book reads every word, from the
first to the last page. But realistically, we know that very few people read technical books that way. Everyone reads and absorbs
information in their own way, so you’re going to use this book any way you please.
But - just as a suggestion – if you’re starting to use DomuS3D® right now, we’d recommend that you have at least a quick look
at Part1 (The Software Setup and Configuration), you carefully read through Part 3 (The Software User Manual) and finally to
practice using the Sample Project you can find in Part 4.
If you’re in a hurry to get started or you already have practiced a bit on DomuS3D®, focus on the single paragraphs related to
the features you want to get deeper in; for this purpose the Table of Contents lists all the features described in this version of
the Manual, so it will help you finding the feature you want to learn about.
Finally, an extremely valuable extension of this Manual can be found in the Video Learning structure you can find inside the
Live Page of the Application. Maticad Support Team always work on new movies, so we encourage you having a look at that
section time to time.
Assumptions and methods
In the Manual we will talk about DomuS3D® and the Application. They refer to the same concept, which is the Program you
have just purchased and installed.
The Standalone version is also called SA in this Manual.
The Client/Server version is also called CS in this Manual.
When talking about DomuS3D® (or the Application) we refer to features that are available in the same way in the SA and CS
version; in case of any difference, we’ll specify what’s different in the Standalone compared to the Client/Server version.
The Application is available on your market with different modules; not all of them are included in the standard packages, as
they can be ordered separately, even at a later time.
The additional (optional) modules will be identified in the manual with the following symbol.
If you have just upgraded from Antares version (that is the Pegasus previous version) it may be useful for you to notice just
what’s new in Pegasus version. For this purpose check around for the sections banned with the following image, as
they refer to novelties in the latest version.
Also, if you want to have a quicker list of the news, refer to the dedicated Paragraph, later on this section.
This image means that you have to select the object/entity with 1 click using the left mouse button
This image means that you have to double click the left mouse button over the object/entity
This image means that you have to select the object/entity with 1 click using the right mouse button
This image means that you have to rotate the wheel mouse button (if any) in order to achieve the suggested action
This image means that you have to keep pressed the wheel mouse button (if any) in order to achieve the suggested
action
Drag&Drop
We will often talk about Drag&Drop. This is a way of working that allows you to pick objects from the Components windows
and place them in the project. The Drag step consists in clicking the left mouse button over the object, keep that button pressed
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and move the cursor over the project. The Drop step consists in releasing the object on the project window (sometimes this
means clicking again the left mouse button in order to decide the object position)
The sample project
The sample project (available in Part 4) will step-by-step guide you while creating your first DomuS3D® project. It is important
that, right after installation and catalogues download, you spend some time practicing with this project (together with the
QuickStepGuide), as it shows the most important and useful features you will refer to in your daily use.
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Introduction
Part 1
Introduction
What’s new in DomuS3D® Pegasus
If you are a former DomuS3D® Antares user, you may like to find Pegasus news just in one place. Here you can find a
quick list of what’s new in Pegasus compared with Antares version, together with the chapter where to find information.
Refer to the Appendix in order to find a detailed and documented list of the news available in Pegasus.
Database
Pegasus SA version can now rely on SQL Runtime Local DB
Application interface
New Interface, Ribbon and Shortcuts now available
Live Page
What’s new in Components Window
Single item download
Automatic update when news on catalogs
E-Learning: video section
Support: tools for connecting
Layout
Subdivide room feature allows to draw internal walls and split existing room in 2 rooms
Tiling
Strips on the wall can be moved up/down for a better customization
Strip height can be changed both manually and/or by specifying number of tiles
New patterns available from Ceramic Tiles Manufacturers
Generic improvements on features (ref. detailed list in appendix)
Miscellaneous
Controls order in Tile Shower Box Corner mask
Quick switch between standard and accurate estimate calculation in Estimate Window
Modular Furnishing
Integration with IMOS-Net and ArredoCAD (optional)
Navigation
New engine for the new Navigation Module
Oculus Rift
Rendering
V-Ray rendering engine (optional)
Distributed rendering (optional)
New Render Manager (optional)
TilePlanner
Integration with TilePlanner: the project made by the end-user on the Web can be imported in DomuS3D®
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Chapt. 7
Intro
Intro
Intro
Intro
Intro
Intro
Chapt. 1
Chapt. 4
Chapt. 4
-Appendix
Chapt. 4
Chapt. 6
Chapt. 9
Chapt. 2
Prototype
Chapt. 5
Chapt. 5
Chapt. 5
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Introduction
Hardware and Software requirements
The hardware and software requirements needed for the correct operation of the program may vary depending on the modules
used while operating: rendering procedures and designing multi rooms scenes need more powerful systems.
In the next table we list the suggested hardware configuration; those details marked as recommended are important if you
plan to use the Advanced features for the Application, such as the Rendering.
Components
Requisites
Operating System
Windows™ Vista with SP2, Windows™ 7 with SP1,
Windows™ 8.1 or later (x86/32 bit as well as x64/64
bit version)
Application is a 32 bit software, while the rendering module is
available both in 32 and 64 bit
CPU
Intel Core i5, i7 (recommended) or similar/later
processors, better if quad core or more
Hard Disk
Better if 7.200 rpm (recommended 10.000 rpm) for
desktop PC’s, and SSD for laptops. Application needs
3-8 GB free for installation (depending on installed
modules), but we suggest having at least 30 GB free
disk space available for the Application, for projects
and new tiles, sanitary ware and 3D objects
catalogues you will download
RAM
4 GB for 32-bit systems; minimum 8 GB, better if 16
GB or more for 64-bit systems
For a smooth and efficient navigation, a highperformance graphics card is recommended,
supporting DirectX 11.0 or later, with at least 1 GB
dedicated RAM (2 GB recommended).
Graphic Adapter
We also suggest you to refer to the following link,
where you can find graphic cards we have specifically
tested:
http://www.domus3d.com/en/Public_Area/Info_Ar
ea/requisiti.html
This page will be kept up-do-date when new versions
of the program will be published
Warmly discouraged cards integrated in processor
DVD drive
To install the Application, unless download from the
Internet
Internet connection
In order to download new catalogues and libraries,
application patches, access the e-learning section
and use web based services
3D Joystick
SpaceMouse
SpaceNavigator
We recommend siding the standard mouse with the
new technologies for 3D navigation, such as
SpaceNavigator
or
SpaceMouse
(ref.
www.3dconnexion.com): this way you can use both
hands in navigation window. The first in order to
move with the SpaceNavigator, the second to
manage items in the scene with the standard mouse
We always suggest you to have a look at the web page dedicated to hardware requirements:
http://www.domus3d.com/en/Public_Area/Info_Area/requisiti.html
Maticad, in fact, keeps that page up-do-date depending on the new technologies available and features of new DomuS3D®
versions.
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Introduction
Installation procedure
The program is provided with a protection hardware USB key (also called dongle) that must be plugged-in on
one of the available USB ports.
The installation procedure will install following components:
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Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.1 Full
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Express SP1 Native Client
Microsoft Solver Foundation
Bonjour Service
Hardware key drivers
DomuS3D® Application
Here is the step by step guide in order to install the program:
1. Check if you have administrator privileges on the computer; differently, some parts of the installation may be not allowed,
faulty or even partially installed. If no username and password is required when logging in WindowsTM, this would usually
mean that the only configured user is also administrator of the computer.
2. Insert the installation DVD in the driver, and wait for the start-up window to appear. It will show something similar to next
image:
Click the round button called Install DomuS3D® if:
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You never installed DomuS3D® and want to install a new version on the computer
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You have a previous version of the software and you want to upgrade to Pegasus version
The next screen will be similar to the following one:
The installation procedure should automatically check the language of the operating system, but you can change the
installation language among the ones available for your operating system and DVD. If needed language is not available in
the list, contact the Manufacturer in order to investigate language availability for this version. Finally, always remember
that even if you selected the wrong language for installation, you will be able to change application language even later on,
while using it
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3. The installation procedure takes place in 2 different sections:
In the first one setup will check if the operating system has all needed frameworks (.NET, Bonjour, database engine, key
drivers, etc..). Frameworks are modules of the operating system needed by the Application in order to correctly operate.
With the second step you will:
A.
read and accept license agreement
B.
decide which unit measure to use (in the English setup only. In any case, unit measure can also be changed later on
inside the program)
C.
decide the folder on the disk where to save the program folder
D.
start the installation of the program files
If upgrading from recent previous versions, you can also decide whether or not to import catalogues/projects from previous
DomuS3D® versions available on the computer
4.
At the end of the setup procedure, plug the hardware key in one of the available USB ports. BE CAREFUL: hardware key is
the program license itself. Keep it with extreme care, as if you will lose it NO replacement key will be given. In that,
unpleasant, case you will need to buy a secondary key from the Manufacturer
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Available languages
Available languages for installation are: English, French, German, Italian, Russian(*), Czech(*), Romanian, Portuguese, Hungarian,
Hebrew(*), Persian(*), Greek(*), Serbian(*), Croatian, Arabic(*).
(*) Means that this language is not contained in the standard setup DVD; contact Marketing Department (details at the end of
the manual) if you want to order a DVD or download Installation Procedure for those languages.
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Up-to-date images and chapters in this manual
Please, consider that your version of the program may slightly differ from the one used while writing this version of the manual.
Especially regarding program interface (toolbar, dialog boxes, …) there might be some light differences in buttons, texts and
translations, etc… If available a new version of the manual please download it from the Live! page, as it will probably contain
those differences you’re still missing. If you’re running an older version of DomuS3D®, please consider that some features you
can find on the manual may not be available in your version.
Starting the program
In order to start the program double click the icon available on your desktop.
Live! Page
When the application opens, at first you can see the so called Live! page.
You will soon see that DomuS3D® lets you working in separate contests, called Windows or Tabs.
Live! is the start-up window: it may vary depending on the Internet connection availability.
When connected to the Internet you can access:
- online training, where you can play movies related to the most important features of the application. Along with this manual
you will find some references to those movies, so that you can play the movie related to the feature you are evaluating
- furnishing elements news on 3D objects libraries: in this way you can see what’s new coming from Maticad Catalogues
Department
- catalogues: if you have joined the Catalogues Download Service, you can start downloading tiles, objects, materials…
catalogues in order to use them while designing and planning. Later on in this chapter you will see how to register for catalogues
download
- projects: in this section you can open one of the latest projects you have worked on, rather than searching a previous one, or
creating a new one
- sample projects section (available starting from 2nd release) allows you to download sample projects that Maticad shares
with you: Those projects will allow you to deepen certain features and tricks of the Application, as there will be available also
a brief description of what’s interesting in the project
- and many more features: as this is a web page, consider that its appearance may vary as Maticad could change its format
and/or add/delete web services and features
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You can customize the Live! page sections by dragging and dropping them in a different position in the window. Pick the
box you want to move in the title with the left mouse button; keeping it pressed move it in the new position.
Ribbon
If you have closed the Live! page, and want to open it again, click the Home button in the Live! Section of the Ribbon, as you
can see in the following image.
The Ribbon is a toolbar, that’s to say a list of buttons at the top of the screen. Each button refers to a single command you can
run)
One of the features of the Ribbon is that it is organized in multi-level structure (command cards) and it groups the largest
number of correlated commands for each level.
Each time you need to find a command, open the Tab of the Ribbon the command refers to.
You can launch a command in 2 different ways: by clicking the button in the Ribbon with your mouse, or by launching
the related shortcut. A shortcut is a combination of keyboard buttons that allows you to quickly launch the most
commons and used commands (it is a standard in any WindowsTM based application). At
the end of this paragraph you can find a table containing the default shortcuts you can use
right after installation.
Starting from version Pegasus you can customize your own shortcuts, so that you can align
DomuS3D® combinations to those you already use on other systems. You can do that
selecting the command “More commands …” available in the small arrow related to
Ribbon on top of page, as you can see in this image.
As you access the Ribbon customization mask, go the second tab, Keyboard, and find the
command you want to refer to.
If the command already has an assigned shortcut, you will see it in the Key assignments
field (in this image you can see Ctrl+N, which is the default shortcut in order to create a
new project).
You can remove it and create a new one: click the left mouse button in the “Press new
shortcut key” field in order to enable it, then use the keyboard to specify new
combination, finally click the Assign button.
The shortcut is now ready to operate for you. If you specified a shortcut already used by
another command, the new one will overwrite the former one.
We suggest you practising with shortcuts, as they can dramatically increase your speed
while planning: there are, in fact, many commands you always use in your daily activity. They’re always the same, so for those
commands it is very useful to use keyboard combinations rather than searching them with your mouse: this will let you save
some more time.
(The most important of them is Ctrl+S, as it allows you to save the current project in a fragment of a second. As you now, it is
important to save the project time to time, in order to avoid any project leak in case of PC malfunctions).
Please, notice that the Language button allows you to change the language of the program. If you have a Client/Server version,
it is important that ALL CLIENTS will refer to the same language and unit measure. Different setup may cause program
malfunctions.
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As soon as you install the software, it is worth to have a look at the commands available in the FILE group:
As you can see, you have several options available in this mask:
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creating new projects
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opening and saving existing ones
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share your project over the Internet and your iPAD/Android tablet
deleting projects from the internal database
adding documents to the projects (it is possible to include emails, PDF, images and whatsoever file to the project, so
that you can find pieces of information later on when you’ll need to recall any detail)
Import and export projects
…
Open the Properties (Options) section
It is important to spend some time on the Properties panel of the application, because it is the place where you can configure
your application behaviour. We will see it very soon in the next section.
Default shortcuts
This is the list of default shortcuts available with installation. As you already know, you can customize them as you need.
The red cells refer to shortcuts it is better to leave unchanged, as they are used by the Application.
Shortcut
Ctrl+Z
Ctrl+Y
Ctrl+N
Ctrl+O
Ctrl+S
Ctrl+Shift+S
Ctrl+D
Ctrl+F4
Ctrl+W
Ctrl+I
Alt+F4
Shift+F6
F3
Ctrl+P
Del
Ctrl+Del
Command
Undo last operation
Repeat last operation
New project
Open project
Save project
Save project as (allows you to duplicate current project)
Open project details
Close current project
Close current window (close project if window is Layout)
Open image
Close Application
Navigate project (switch to or open navigation window)
Views management (manage saved views or save current one)
Get the estimate of the project
Delete selected entity
Delete tiles from the project (you can specify which tiles to remove: Floor, Walls, Objects)
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All
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Ctrl+T
Shift+F7
Shift+M
Ctrl+U
Alt+H
Alt+O
Alt+M
Alt+T
Ctrl+C
Ctrl+V
F5
Ctrl+Shift+Z
Ctrl+F2
F2
Ctrl+H
Ctrl+Alt+O
Ctrl+E
Ctrl+F3
Alt+L
Alt+R
Alt+A
Alt+C
Alt+P
Shift+L
Ctrl+L
Alt+L
Ctrl+M
Ctrl+1
Ctrl+2
Ctrl+3
Ctrl+4
Ctrl+5
Ctrl+6
Ctrl+Left arrow
Ctrl+Right arr.
O
S
P
Spacebar
H
Tab
+/R
A
Arrow
Ctrl+F9
TAB
Open wall window (2D)
Open FULL SCREEN navigation window
(select and) Move objects
Create a 3D Cube box
Change wall height
Create a hole/niche in the wall
Move wall
Draw text
Copy tiled areas
Paste copied (tiled) areas
Zoom window
Zoom max
Print project folder
Print Layout
Share project (by e-mail, publish on web, publish on Android/iOS Tablet)
Open program preferences (Options)
Open application logs (do not use this shortcut)
Print technical details for the installer
Draw line (CAD 2D Tools)
Draw rectangle (CAD 2D Tools)
Draw arch (by point-point-radius, in CAD 2D Tools)
Draw circle (by centre + radius, in CAD 2D Tools)
Draw polyline (CAD 2D Tools)
Open the sun (natural) light properties mask
New light
Delete light
Open the project materials control panel
Move the observer in the centre of the room
Move the observer on the left side of the room
Move the observer on the right side of the room
Move the observer to the top of the room
Move the observer to the bottom of the room
Move the observer in order to see the room from above
Move the observer to the previous saved view (if any)
Move the observer to the next saved view (if any)
While drawing entities, enable/disable the orthogonal mode
Enable/disable the snap to the desktop grid
While moving rooms/objects/tiles/… click again and again to switch the
dragging point between every corner
While dropping 3D objects enable/disable the automatic orientation of objects
on walls
While dropping 3D objects set the elevation of the current object with the
reference you can click on
When drawing/moving entities, you can switch between the fields for typing
exact values
While moving an object, rotate 45° clockw./couterclockw.
While moving an object, rotate the object depending on the degree you will
type, and also allows you to set a new elevation
While moving an object, aligns it to a reference line you will be asked to pick
Move (shift) the desktop left/right/up/down
In a multi-room project, allows you to hide/show the blue lines indicating the
active room
In a multi-room project, allows you to switch the active room
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Layout
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Layout
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Layout
Layout
Layout/2D Wall
2D Wall
2D Wall
Layout/2D Wall/Panel
Layout/2D Wall/Panel
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Navigation
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Properties panel
The Application Properties mask can be opened by clicking on FileOptions.
We suggest you to have a look at it before starting planning, so that you can customize your Application behaviour.
The Options (also called Preferences mask later on in this manual) contains various sections: let’s have a look at them one by
one.
General
 Show tiles in wireframe mode
Allows a quick and general view of the tiles that are laid: enabling this box allows viewing each tile in a different single
colour assigned automatically by the program and calculated on an average of the colour of the real tile.
This mode can be useful in the case of projects with large tiled surfaces (eg. Shopping centres, airports, etc.) where a
simplified rendering of the tiles speeds up and makes elaboration easier especially in a “real-time” graphic representation,
also called virtual navigation.
 Display (show) elements in Modify Tiling
Shows/hides 3D objects against the wall, when you are viewing that wall in a 2D window
 Advanced items selection
Offers the user a more direct and detailed choice in the search for tiles in the database, specifying various fields like series,
manufacturer, size, code, etc...
Consequently, a different selection interface is used, dedicated to more experienced users.
 Load/save project on file
The program usually stores all projects within the internal database: this means that the user does not need to take care
of the project file location on the disk, as the Application will manage the projects file system. You have, indeed, the
opportunity of changing this way of working, being you to decide where to save the project file; enabling this choice you
will work the same way you do with programs like Excel, Word and many others, where you load and save files where you
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want. In this configuration, a double-click on a project file (its extension is: .pjp) automatically opens the program loading
the selected project.
BE CAREFUL: it is strongly recommended to decide the way you want to work with project files right after program
installation. We discourage switching this check on and off later on, as it would be difficult to remember whether the
project you are interested in is located in the internal database, or in the computer/network file system.
 View dynamic tips (Tooltips)
Enables/disables the display of short messages when the mouse cursor touches sensitive areas such as commands and
design elements (e.g. walls).
 Text buttons
You can customize the text and dimensions font, their size and colour
 Perimeter Tiling continuous
When this option is enabled, the application tries to keep on using the remaining part of tile cut in the previous corner,
instead of starting the new wall with a complete tile (image on the left). This gives continuity to the covering procedure
(you can see it on the right image).
 WordML Editor
The application lets you having a preview of many technical printouts in a dedicated window. If you have MicrosoftTM Word
installed on your computer, you can decide to use it within the program in order to preview the printout. If you don’t have
such a software, check the Internal option, so that the application will use an internal editor for previewing the printouts.
In both cases, indeed, you will be able to customize the final printout, the same way you do with documents in Word:
changing texts, images and logos (for example placing your logo), columns and tables, and everything is needed in order to
have the format you need.
 Company detailed data
You can customize the information used by the program when creating printouts. Usually we’re talking about images and
texts. After the program installation, the program uses DomuS3D® and Maticad typical images and texts. You can customize
them in order to have your own logo, Company name and details (address, etc…). Moreover, you can load multiple
Company details, in order to print your projects for different brands, in case you are working for a Company who delivers
items with different brand names.
 Locate application on disk
Sometimes it is useful to get to the computer folder where the program has been installed (for technical support requests,
in order to save your own tile images prior loading
them in the internal database, etc…). By clicking this
button the application opens the folder containing the
root of the program.
BE CAREFUL: do not change, alter or remove the
program files, in order to avoid program malfunctions.

Blueprint for the installer
This section allows you to customize the technical
printouts. This image shows you some graphics
effects you can obtain by activating the individual
options:
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Tiling origin dimensions: the origins of tiled areas are indicated (the symbol “«” identifies the origin and tells the installer to
proceed right to left, while the symbol “»” is referred to left to right direction) and their size related to left or right corner. This
image shows you a wall containing a standard panel (beneath), divided in 2 sections (usually called tiled areas later on in this
manual) identified by tiles numbered ‘5’. The red arrows point the starting point of such areas.
Automatic dimensions: by activating this option, the technical laying printouts show the distance from the corner to the main snap
point of any furnishing element near the wall. In the previous image the blue arrows show that distance (for the washbasin and
the mirror).
Tile numbers in technical printouts: by activating this option the typical wireframe-based blueprint for the installer is completed
with automatic tiles enumeration, in order to be able to link the tiles data-grid (including details such item code, format, etc…)
with the tiles available on the wall. This setup is very useful for the installers, but sometimes it is worth to disable it, especially with
mosaic, as the size of the tile does not grant enough space for the number representation.
Measures
 Unit measure
Here you can change the unit measure you want to work with. The default is cm. (centimeters), but you can work also in
millimeters, meters, inches and feet.
BE CAREFUL: in Client/Server installations all the Client users have to work with the same language and the same unit
measure, as this choice affects the database setup (which, in case of a Client/Server, is unique and the same for all the
users)
 Grid
Used for the layout window only. If enabled, the application draws small dots on the desktop. Those dots create a ‘grid’,
as a visual reference for the designer. Such Grid is just a visual tool, and does not affect any snap or interaction with the
mouse. This field allows you to setup the grid size (horizontal and vertical)
 Step
Used for the layout window only. Enabling this option, you will ‘snap’ the objects you drag in the desktop to the steps you
are setting up. It is useful to use, for the step, the same values used for the grid, so that you can see where the snaps are.
(if you want to temporarily disable the step/snap option while you are dragging the objects, you can press the
keyboard S button. The spacebar button, in fact, enables/disables the step/snap even without opening again the Option
mask)
 Axes
Used for the layout window only. It is a visual tool only. Axis are the small segments on the sides of the layout window.
With these fields you can specify the distance between them, a visual reference.
 Curves splitting string
It is the length of the segment you will create while converting an arch, spline or circle to a polyline. In order to tile those
lines, in fact, the application needs to convert any non linear entity in a polyline. We suggest you to use the same size of
the tile you will apply on the segments, if any.
 Rotation step
While dragging a 3D object inside the layout window, you can rotate it clockwise or anticlockwise with + and - buttons
of the keyboard. This field allows you to decide what’s the default rotation increment each time you will click them.
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Layout
This section of the Options console allows you to decide the way you want to trace the walls of the blueprint: colors, internal
walls filler, standard width and height of the walls (it will be possible to change them later on).
In the Lights group it is possible to choose whether or not to view the lights in the layout (through a graphic representation)
and set the standard height to use any time you create a new light (it will be possible to change it later on).
Navigation and Rendering
 Navigation
This is the panel where to configure the appearance and quality of the 3D window (also called navigation window). Among
the most important component is the Quality slider. Moving it to High will mean a better image of the project to be seen
while in 3D view. We suggest you to check the different levels comparing the related images you can see in 3D, considering
that the higher the quality you will use, the slower the computer will be in order to display the scene, depending on the
computer’s power. BE CAREFUL: we suggest you to use the better (higher) quality possible only if your Processor and
graphic card are very powerful (typically Quad Core processors and fast GPU, with at least 1 GB on board RAM: for further
information connect to the http://www.domus3d.com/en/Public_Area/Info_Area/requisiti.html page in the Application
web site).
Refer to the Navigation section (Chapter 2) for learning about the Advanced button.
Interactive elements is intended to enable/disable dynamic elements in navigation window. Those elements can move
some parts/layers (i.e. dynamic doors and windows can be opened by clicking their handle, dynamic furniture can open
their door in the same way, tiles displayers slots can be pulled out in order to see different panels, or to assign tiles to each
slot…). This check is enabled by default, and does affect the navigation speed; we suggest you to disable it just in case you
do not want to rise such effect while pressing the left mouse button near dynamic layers.
Antialiasing option allows you to improve the sharpness of the image and reduce the aliasing effect (segmentation of
oblique/diagonal lines). This option forces the computer using more hardware resources, hence it could make the 3D
window a bit slower.
Wireframe navigation allows you to navigate the scene in wireframe mode, that’s to say just with the structure of the 3D
objects, without seeing their colors and tile/covering material. It can be enabled/disabled from directly the navigation
window selecting the F7 keyboard button, hence this is a very useful mode when moving in very complex projects, without
having powerful computers.
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Transparency allows you seeing the transparent materials in the navigation window (Glasses, windows, shower boxes,
bottles, ...). This option forces the computer using more hardware resources, hence it could make the 3D window a bit
slower.
Predefined views animation will let the application moving smoothly between the saved points of view (those, predefined,
available in the Ribbon but also the ones you will save by yourself in the scene). This effect allows you simulating a path
you walk in when you are moving in the scene together with your customer, with a higher impact effect.
Reflections allows you to enable reflective effects if available materials are in the scene. The reflection effect is nothing
more than a simulation, and is not accurate as the one you will see in the render of the scene. This option forces the
computer using more hardware resources, hence it could make the 3D window a bit slower.
 Rendering
In this section you can decide whether to use Advanced graphic engines like mental ray® or V-Ray, rather than using the
navigation quality for getting the scenes images. Please notice that mental ray® and V-Ray options may be disabled in case
you have not purchased a license containing those professional rendering engines. For deeper information regarding how
to use mental ray and V-Ray, we suggest you to read the related section (Chapter 5).
 Grouts
The ‘underline grouts’ check allows you to enhance the lines in between the tiles, in order to better see the grout.
Sometimes this effect may be useful in case of bright colours of the tiles, or in case of small grout values
 Panorama size
With this field you can setup the default size (in pixel) for 360° Panoramas
Hardware key
This section lists you (on the left pane of the mask) the modules that currently are enabled in your key (license). On the right
side you can see (starting from top):
Key code: This is the code of your key (license). That code will be needed by the Support Team in case you need to receive
information about the use of the program: you can select it with your mouse, and copy it (Ctrl+C)
Buy an upgrade: you can access the Maticad Store where to buy an additional module among those available for your program,
or the license upgrade (in case you are using a trial version, you can also buy the full application)
Apply update: updates are the application by using a .v2c file (Vendor to Customer) received from MATICAD, usually after the
purchase of a functional extension.
Collect info: this button allows you to generate a .c2v file (Customer to Vendor) containing all the information found in your
hardware key (thus, your licence). Such file can be sent to MATICAD by email for any key verification, renewal or upgrade.
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System Variables
This section allows you to modify the application variables stored in WindowsTM Registry system.
As these are fundamental settings for the operation of the program, it is strongly recommended to make any modification
only if you are sure about it, or in case you are being guided by the support team (for those who have joined technical support
service).
Remember that non-coherent modifications of System variables may lead the software to unstable situations.
If you want to modify an existing value, click over the name of the variable, change the value in the right field and click Apply.
If you want to delete a registry variable, select it in the list and click Delete button.
Events
This section lists the most relevant events registered by the application, there including also errors encountered while working
in DomuS3D®. Such information will be important for the technical support team in order to assist you in case of
troubleshooting.
The Send file button automatically attaches and forwards the file to the technical support department (when there is an active
Internet connection and a mail client available on the computer).
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Components window
Let’s now have a look at the Components window (which is located on the left of the application desktop); the Components
window shows you the content of the internal library (database) of the Application.
In this section of the manual, you will learn how to customize their appearance; in the next chapters of this guide you will learn
how to use the available commands while in the design process.
Projects
It is the first tab starting from the top. After Application setup it contains sample projects you can
learn from.
Later on this section will let you see the latest projects you saved, together with their layout preview.
If the project you want to load is listed in this window, you can simply double click its image in order
to open it again.
The search field located at the top of the window, allows you to search a specific customer name, or
project description: this opprtuinty is very useful when you have hundreds of projects and you need
to quickly access one of them. We encourage you using search fields in order to speed up your
selection process.
The Options Button (at the bottom of the
projects thumbnails)
allows you to decide the way you want to
list the projects in this
window: it is not so important to customze
this section of the
panel, as the search field usually gives you
so much flexibility in
pointing out the project you want to work
with.
Rooms
showroom.
This section of the Components window lists project Templates you can use while planning. If you
don’t have any opened project, by double clicking one of the templates allows you to create a new
project, using such template.
That’s a very useful and quick way, for example, in order to create square rooms (and you will be able
to modify rooms size later on in the layout window), or to create similar projects for the same (or
different) customers using the same room and avoiding designing it from scratch again.
If you double click a template while you already have an opened project, you’ll be able to add this
room to the existing one; this is one of the options you can use in order to create multi-rooms
environments.
Remember that if you select a room and click the ‘CANC’ button of the keyboard, you will delete that
template from the collection.
And now your last question is: “How can I customize the templates collection?”
When you draw a room (next sections will let your learn how to do it) and you want to save it in the
Rooms templates, you just have to right click inside the room, and select command ‘Add to
components’; the application will ask you to name the template, and this is it! We strongly encourage
you using the templates as they will speed your process when engaging a new customer in the
Tiles
This is one of the most used Components, hence we encourage you setting the visualization options
you prefer.
In this panel you can browse the tiles (and any other covering material) available in your internal
library (also called database).
In this section we take care about the visualization on the Tiles Component, as the other controls will
be described in the next chapters.
If you click the Options button (at the bottom of the tiles), you can decide which way to scroll the tiles
content (in the Filters section): this is an important
decision in order to
quickly find the tiles you want to work with.
Probably the most used setup is the one you can see
in the image on the
right: By selecting this option, you will see the
Manufacturers list first,
once you select a Manufacturer you will see its
Collections list, finally
the formats available within the selected collection.
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Always remember that you can still use the Search field in order, for example, to search an item using its description, or even
typing the format you want to work with, or the Manufacturer name in order to temporarily hide the other catalogues.
Click CANCEL to reset Search criteria and see the full library content again.
By double clicking a tile image, you access the modification mood, where you can change ANY property of the tile (such as item
code, description, collection name, or also price/material … in the advanced section).
You will learn later on in the guide how to create new tiles on your own.
We suggest you to practice with the search criteria, in order to empower your ability of finding the needed items in just a
second. The way the Search field works is very similar to Google Search field.
These are some examples of tiles search:
Text typed in the Search field
Manufacturer name, or part of it
(eg.: Maticad, Mati )
Collection name, or part if
(eg.: Naturae, Natu). If there are available similar collection
names, such as Naturae Glossy, Naturae outdoor, Naturae
Slim…, by writing just ‘Naturae’ you will list all of them
30x30 (Format)
Results given in the Components window
You will see just the tiles available in the given Manufacturer
catalogue
You will see just the tiles available in the given Collection
(sometimes it may happen that the same collection name,
or a part of it, is available also in other catalogues. In this
case you will see both)
You can specify that you want to focus just on a format, such
as 30x30, 30x60,…. This format is compatible for cm. unit
measure. Always provide the format compatible with the
chosen unit measure in the Options window
If you type +before the word, you are asking to select all
names/descriptions that DO contain such word
If you type -before the word, you are asking to select all
names/descriptions that DO NOT contain such word
+
-
As soon as catalogues in the Cloud are updated by the Maticad Catalogues Department, the Tiles Components window
will let you realize that there is a piece of news for those catalogues. This will let you jumping to the catalogue you need
to update, and immediately start downloading it (available only for those who have purchased Catalogues Download Service).
Layings
This section allows you to select the dynamic pattern to apply in the project.
The patterns are divided depending on the different formats they have inside.
You will learn, later on in this guide, how to drag&drop dynamic patterns in order to apply them to
the floor, walls or any surface in the project, and how to fill them with real tiles.
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Furnishing Elements
This section allows you to see all available 3D Objects (also called Furnishing Elements by the
application) in the application catalogue.
The visualization options and search criteria are very similar to the ones already specified for the tiles
component (apart for the format).
By double clicking an element thumbnail you access the window that allows you to view/modify the
item properties (in that window, the Modify button allows you to change the default materials for the
object’s layers).
You will learn later on in the guide how to create (import) new objects on your own.
As soon as catalogues in the Cloud are updated by the Maticad Catalogues Department, the
Tiles Components window will let you realize that there is a piece of news for those catalogues.
This will let you jumping to the catalogue you need to update, and immediately start downloading it
(available only for those who have purchased Catalogues Download Service).
Materials
This section contains all materials (textures) that can be assigned to 3D Objects within the project.
By double clicking the material thumbnail you open the window that allows you to edit the material
properties and effects.
You will learn later on in the guide how to drag&drop materials over the objects’ layer you want to
assign them to.
Materials selection may vary depending on the rendering engine you have chosen to work with.
Mental ray and V-Ray materials, in fact, may differ each other, hence it is possible that material
collections for them are not identical.
You will learn later on in the guide how to create new materials on your own.
Lights
This section allows you to drag&drop a light in the project.
Double click is not enabled in this panel, as you cannot change the light properties: lights, in fact, are
listed depending their own and specific properties.
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Images
This section lists the images that you can Drag&Drop in your project.
The images will be applied in the layer (surface) you will drop them into, adapting their size depending
on the container size.
You can add your own images to this section, by just simply manually pasting the JPG or PNG file you
want to add, in the …\DomuS3D\Bitmap\Image folder.
If you do not remember where you installed the program, you can ask the application to open the
setup folder for you by clicking the ‘Locate application on Disk’ button you can find in the Program
Options window (FileOptions), or the application log window (you can open it by clicking at the
same time the Ctrl + E ).
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Catalogues download
CATALOGUES DOWNLOAD
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The Catalogues Download service
DomuS3D® Pegasus allows you to download tiles, panels, furnishing elements, materials, patterns and projects over the
Internet, from the Live! page. This module is not included in the standard version of the program and, as an optional, has to be
processed separately paying an annual fee.
In order to evaluate the module before buying it, anyway, you can refer to MATICAD manufacturer, which is free and not linked
to any subscription. In the next sections you can learn how to register and download content from the Cloud.
Terms of use
Some of the catalogues can be downloaded ONLY if acknowledged by the Manufacturer himself. This means that we cannot
grant you access to all catalogues you see available on DomuS3D® web site, as for those that are locked the Company itself will
confirm your download request. For those catalogues, Manufacturer is the ONLY responsible of download authorization, and
MATICAD cannot be held responsible (for any reason) in case you will not be entitled to download.
As you process the module, you agree about sharing your details and information (license, address,…) with manufacturers
involved in the download module. MATICAD is not responsible in case of delays while waiting for access to the catalogue,
and/or in case the catalogues itself is not complete at the time of download (as MATICAD depends on the Manufacturers’
material availability).
Downloaded catalogues can be used ONLY inside DomuS3D®. Any other improper use is forbidden, included selling or providing
it to any other third party, in any format.
How to use the Catalogues Download module
Step 1/5: register
Unless you want to download the free material (tiles and furnishing elements flagged as MATICAD), you need to register
before getting to the download module.
In the image on the left, you see the link you need to click in order to access the registration form: Click
here to become member.
It is in the home section, on the left of the Live! Page.
You need, of course, to have available an Internet connection: we suggest to use this module only if you
have a fast connection, as catalogues may be sized also hundreds MB, depending on what you select
before downloading.
While in the registration process, provide the correct license details related to your hardware key: wrong
or malicious information on the Company, may result in permanently denying any download for the
hardware key you are using.
When you submit the registration form, an e-mail will be sent to the email address you have specified; that e-mail is crucial
to complete registration process.
In the next image you can see the e-mail that you will receive:
remember to finalize the registration process by
clicking the link click here that you find in the e-mail.
Save username and password in a safe place and do not
share them with anybody, as they are your credentials
in order to access the catalogues.
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Step 2/5: connect
Open again the Application, go to the Live! Page, fill in your username and password, and click Login.
If you check the control named ‘remember password’, you will automatically access the restricted are
next time you run the application.
If you don’t want the Application to automatically login next time you run it, check the control named
‘Forget password’.
Step 3/5: open catalogues
By clicking the Catalogues link on top of the Live! page, you access the section where to decide which catalogue typology
to get to. Note that in this page you can learn how to understand whether or not a catalogue is alredy installed on your
computer, is freely downloadable, locked by the Manufacturer, etc…
The following image reports the possible catalogue status:
Move the mouse on Furnishing elements, and select MATICAD (or any other Manufacturer). You will see a list of the
available typologies in this catalogue.
You can select one (or more) of them by checking the little
square on the left, and click the ADD TO CART button.
In this moment you are not downloading this catalogue: you
are just selecting the items you’re interested in (the cart is a
container of selected items/collections).
The real download procedure will start later on, in step 4.
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Step 4/5: download catalogues
As soon as you add items to the cart, the section you can see in this image will be available in the left
column of the Live! page.
If you want to proceed downloading, click the View button in order to access the final step.
As you can see in the next image, in fact, the cart view lists all the items you have selected while browsing
the catalogues, providing also information regarding the size of the download (in MB).
Accept the terms of use of the catalogue download service
(click on yes), finally click che IMPORT SELECTED ELEMENTS
button in order to start downloading the items on your
computer.
As the download procedure could take a few
minutes/hours (depending on the size of the download
and/or the speed of your Internet connection), while
downloading you can keep on worlking with the
Application.
If you want to know the status of the download, click the
button in the HOME group of the Ribbon called Catalogues
loading.
Don’t be afraid if your download has not been completed and you need to shut down the compter, as the Application will
automatically pause it (keepng the status) and start it again next time it runs.
Step 5/5: install catalogues
At the end of the download, in the Live! page you will see a message by the Application, that notifies the avaialbility of the
new collections on your computer; you just have to click over Install elements in order to definitively load those items in
your library. You are now ready to use them in your design activity.
Note: the Application may ask you a confirmation in order to overwrite new materials over existing ones in your library.
They are the new materials download from the Cloud. We always suggest you to overwrite all materials with new ones, as
the new ones could be better optimized for the rendering process. The only disadvantage in this choice is that if you have
formerly modified a material in your library, you could loose your customization.
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Download of single objects
This option is available just with the Furnishing elements.
If you click over a typology, you access the following page.
Here you can immediately check which
items are already installed in your
Application (marked by ).
But, also, you can move the mouse over
one of the, and as soon as you see the
Download Arrow, click the left mouse
button in order to confirm immediate
download.
In this way the element will be
immediately downloaded and installed
in your library.
This is a useful option in case you
urgently need to download just a few
items, and you do not want to get
complete typologies or collections.
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Quick Step Guide
Part 2
Quick Step Guide
Why a Quick Step Guide?
This part of the User guide is meant for those who do not have time to immediately read the all manual, but would like to
create their first project by now.
Quick Step Guide combines the most important paragraphs you will find in the next Chapters (you may also read Sample
Project, in Part 4, which is a step by step guide to create a project). Even if you start reading this part, we strongly encourage
you to keep on reading the rest of the guide too, as you will find detailed and extended information that are essential in the
Application daily use.
(Create a new project) By using existing room templates
(From Chapter 1) If you need to create a project and you already have a similar layout shape
available in the room templates, you can use it and create a project in just 1 click.
(Why do we say: a similar layout? Because if you need - let’s say - a rectangular room, you can
use the square template, and modify the room size very easily right after. So don’t be afraid if
the templates dimensions are not the ones you really need: if the shape is the one that you
need, it is far better to use it and change the walls dimensions in the layout window, rather
than designing it from scratch)
As you see in this image, the components window has a section called rooms: this section
contains room templates that you can use in order to easily create new projects or new rooms
with that shape.
If you do not have any opened project, and you double click on the template you need, the
Application will let you creating a new project based on that template. You just need to assign the customer name info (in
order to better search and find that project later on) and you’ll be in, ready to start tiling or placing objects.
If you already have an opened project, and you double click a template, you will be able to add a second room in the current
project (that now becomes a multi-room project: we’ll concentrate on multi-rooms projects later on in this Manual)
Move walls
(From Chapter 1) You can move any wall from within the layout window.
First of all move the mouse cursor on the internal side of the wall (you understand about the right
position as the wall color changes to blue, and a small tooltip tells you the wall size). On the internal
side of the wall click the right mouse button, as you can see in the image, and select
command Move.
The Application now asks you to specify the first (starting) point of the movement: using
the left mouse button, you can specify ANY point in the screen, as the starting and
ending point are just references for the Application in order to understand how far you
want to move that wall. Secondly, you will select the destination point.
Notice that you can do it both using the mouse (clicking with the left mouse button
where you want the destination point to be set) or even typing the distance of the
movement in the available fields (one is for the length of the movement, the second
one is related to the movement orientation: you can switch from one to the other with
the TAB keyboard button)
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In case you make any mistake, use the shortcut Ctrl + Z or the UNDO button in the upper-left corner of the
Application window, as you can see in the image. The opposite of UNDO is REDO (the specular button) whose
shortcut is Ctrl + Y .
Placing doors and windows
(From Chapter 3) Architectural elements such as doors and windows usually are the first items to be placed in the project.
When you install the software you already have some doors and windows in the Application library.
First of all open the layout window of the project, as doors and windows can be placed just in this window. Next step is to
search for the door you want to place in the project: in the components section (the vertical panel on the left, unless you have
moved it somewhere else in the Application desktop) click the FURNISHING ELEMENTS panel. You can browse the library by
selecting the related Macro Typology (Architectural) the Typology (Doors or Dynamic Doors), finally the Manufacturer you want
to refer to. Now you should have a list of doors available in
the preview section of the component.
Keep pressed the left mouse button on the preview image,
and drag the door in the layout window; now that you are
over the project you can release the left button.
You can see that while moving the mouse you’ll move the
door too (it is the red rectangle linked to the mouse cursor).
You cannot leave the door in the middle of the room, so try
placing the mouse cursor over the internal walls of the project: you’ll notice that the door automatically rotates and aligns to
the wall, and becomes green (this is the confirmation that you can now locate it)). Now that the door knows the destination
wall, it becomes green and a double measure control shows up, giving you the distance between the door and the left/right
corner of the wall. In order to definitively release the door you can click again the left button if the position is correct, but if
you want to be even more accurate leave the mouse where it is in order to specify the destination wall, and start typing the
distance you want to refer to. In the image above you can see that the selected distance to refer to is the one between the
door and the left corner. In case you want to refer to the right one, click the TAB keyboard button to switch to the right distance,
and type again that distance.
If you want to place a window, go back to the components section, search windows by browsing typologies or by writing
“window” in the search field; then follow up the same steps as before, as windows have the same behavior as doors.
Note that doors and windows can be dragged only on the internal side of the wall. They can be dropped only when you start
seeing the double measure system; if you don’t see it, it means that the mouse cursor is not over the internal side of the wall.
If you wan to exit the procedure, click the ESC keyboard button, or even the right mouse button.
Finally, let’s talk about the difference between Doors and Dynamic Doors typology. A dynamic door (window) is not a static
object, and can be opened/closed by the designer while in navigation, by clicking the left mouse button over the door/window
handle.
Keep in mind that usually windows are transparent, hence sun light always passes through; doors will not let it get in the scene
if they are closed. By opening them (if they are dynamic) will allow some sun light enter the room.
Placing objects in layout
(From Chapter 3) Placing a 3D object in the project layout is as easy as placing a door. These are the steps to follow in order to
add an object to the project:
1. Search the object in the components window
2. When you see it, click the left mouse button on the object image; keep the mouse pressed
3. Move the mouse over the layout, and release the mouse button
4. Move the object to the place you want to drop it
5.
Click the left mouse button in order to drop it
As already seen with doors, the object will automatically rotate and align
itself to the wall as soon as you move the mouse over the internal side of
a wall.
When aligned to the wall, the double measure system will appear, in order
to let you see the distance between the object and the left/right corner of
the wall it is aligned to.
You can click the left mouse button in order to definitively place it in the
position where the mouse is, or you can start typing the exact measure
using the left/right distance (you can switch between the two by clicking the TAB keyboard button).
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While dragging the object in the layout, you can use the + / - +/- keyboard buttons in order to rotate the object by 45° (+ for
anticlockwise, - for clockwise).
While dragging the object in the layout, you can use the R keyboard button in order to rotate the object by an angle different
than 45°, and also in order to quickly change its elevation from the floor.
How to open Navigation
(From Chapter 2) If you just created your first project, the only opened window (apart the LivePage) of
the project is the Layout. So you need to open the Navigation window once you want to start seeing the
project in 3D. You can do this in 3 different ways:
1. Select the Navigate button available in the Ribbon (refer to Virtual Navigation group)
2. Use keyboard shortcut Shift + F6 (unless you have customized it in a different way)
3. Click the right mouse button wherever (apart on the existing entities) in the layout desktop, and select
command Virtual navigation, as you can see in this image.
If the Navigation window is already opened, by selecting one of the aforementioned commands will not
open a second navigation, but will make the existing one visible top of windows.
Please, note that you do not have to close the Navigation window once you go back to the layout; you can leave it opened and
keep on working in the layout or the tiling window. While hidden, in fact, the Navigation window will not use any resource of
your computer, and will automatically update itself with the project news once you will make it visible again.
Finally, Ctrl+Tab is a very useful shortcut that allows you to switch between the opened windows in the Application.
(Navigate the scene in 3D) With your mouse
(From Chapter 2) It is important to learn how to move in the Navigation window, as the more expert you’ll be in reaching the
needed point of view, the quicker you will design while in 3D.
Everyone has a mouse connected to the PC, so let’s start understanding how to move using the standard mouse buttons.
When you open the Navigation window, the Application will move the observer in:
- the middle of the room, by default
- the first point of view in case you formerly saved in the project one or more points of view
From that position you can move by using the mouse buttons this way:
If you keep the left mouse button pressed, the observer remains in the same position in the layout, but the eyes/head
will move depending on the direction you are moving the mouse in. If you move it forward the observer will look at
the ceiling. If you move backward the observer will look at the floor. If you move left/right the observer will rotate
left/right. If you get lost (and can happen the very first time you practice, don’t worry) click the ‘N’ keyboard button in order
to Normalize the view, which is to say restore the view at the original inclination.
The right mouse button allows you to move (walk) inside the room (change the position in the layout). If you keep
the right mouse button pressed and start moving the mouse, you will proceed inside the room. If you move it forward,
the observer will go ahead; if you move backward, the observer will step back. If you move it right/left, observer will
move laterally
Central wheel button is used in order to move the observer higher/lower. In this way you can easily change the
elevation of the eyes.
Try to practice a bit with the mouse and become expert in moving: a good exercise is to get from one corner to the opposite
one. Of course you will need to use both left and right button: the left one will set the direction, while the right one will really
let the observer walking in the scene.
Gamers are used to move with the mouse in addition with the keyboard buttons, especially W, A, S, D.
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Quick Step Guide
(Tile the floor) With a single tile (solid pattern)
(From Chapter 4) Open the Navigation window, and select the Tiles section in the Components window.
Search the tile you want to apply on the floor. Before dragging the tile to the floor, check the tiles control panel in order to:
1.
2.
3.
Set the operation mood on the floor button
Set the grout value and color you need for the floor
Set the destination to Current room
Now the Application knows where you want to apply the tile, so you can click the left mouse button over the tile image,
drag&drop it over the floor.
You should now see the tile applied on the floor. If you made any mistake, you can change some pattern parameter (such as
rotation, or grout), and apply it again. The Application will take care of automatically deleting the old floor, and change it with
the new one.
If the tile has been loaded in the library with more than one image, the Application will take care of using all the available
images (off shaded effect). You can check if there are available multiple images for the same item by double clicking over the
tile image: if there are multiple images the off-shaded control will be checked, and you will see those images looping in the
preview section of the mask.
Tile all walls with a single tile (solid pattern, strip by strip)
(From Chapter 4) Note that when you work on walls, each time you drag&drop a tile over a wall you create a new strip on it.
Basically you create a sort of dynamic panel by adding, strip by strip, sections to the panel. Of course you have all the control
you need in order to change the panel configuration anytime. We will see how in the next few paragraphs.
Open the Navigation window, and select the Tiles section in the Components window.
Search the tile you want to apply on the walls. Before dragging the tile, check the tiles control panel in order to:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Set the operation mood on the walls button (A)
Set the grout value and color you need for the walls
Specify the number of tile-lines you want in the strip (B)
In (C) you are telling the Application that you want to create a new
strip (rather than applying the tile to an existing one)
Set the destination to Current room (D)
Now the Application knows the way you want to apply the tile, so you can click the left mouse button over the tile image,
drag&drop it over the wall (doesn’t matter which wall, as you are covering Current room, that’s to say all walls).
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You should now see the tile applied on the first strip of the wall. Note that we have rotated the tile by 90° (as its image is
vertical, and we want it laid horizontally), and we have applied 3 lines (tile) in the new strip (which is the first one).
Now you can try to select a listello: in the next image you see that we have selected a new size (34x2,5) changed the rotation
to 0 (as the listello image is horizontal) and number of rows = 1:
Launch the rendering process
(From Chapter 5) If you want to start the rendering process, open the navigation window, move the point of
view in the needed position, and select the command Full image available in the Navigation section of the
Ribbon.
Even if V-Ray can find an automatic setup of the scene exposure, sometimes it may be necessary to try some (small size)
samples before launching the final process. For sample image we suggest not to use a high resolution and quality setup, as you
could face long time rendering.
If you have a look at the section named Image Quality, you see that there are 3
different quality levels (Low, Medium, High). The greater quality you ask the
Application, the longer it will take to render the image; so, at the beginning (if you
are not sure about illumination and materials setup) it is better to try some
samples using medium or low quality.
Illumination and exposure can be automatically adjusted by the Application: click the button Automatic.
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Quick Step Guide
You will open the rendering preview mask, where you can choose the exposure typology. Before proceeding, note that in this
mask you decide whether to create a rendered image (click OK), a Job (for Render Manager application) or a 360° Panorama.
Leave the Exposure control to Automatic, and click Generate Preview: Application will start calculating optimized parameters
and will give you a preview.
In order to create an automatic setup the Application needs to try some samples and calculate the illumination: for this reason
you will need to wait some time, depending on the complexity of the project and the power of your computer (it is the similar
approach used by digital cameras when you set the automatic exposure).
The Sample Project
Now that you have seen the most relevant steps to follow up in order to create your first project (and if you still don’t have
time to read the following chapters), you could jump to Part 4, where you’ll find a step by step process to follow up in order to
create a standard, medium complexity, project.
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Chapter 1: Layout
Part 3
Chapter 1: Layout
Creation
By using existing templates
If you need to create a project and you already have a similar layout shape available in the
room templates, you can use it and create a project in just 1 click.
(Why do we say: a similar layout? Because if you need - let’s say - a rectangular room, you
can use the square template, and modify the room size very easily right after. So don’t be
afraid if the templates dimensions are not the ones you really need: if the shape is the one
that you need, it is far better to use it and change the walls dimensions in the layout window,
rather than designing it from scratch)
As you see in this image, the components window has a section called rooms: this section
contains room templates that you can use in order to easily create new projects or new rooms
with that shape.
If you do not have any opened project, and you double click on the template you need, the
Application will let you creating a new project based on that template. You just need to assign
the customer name info (in order to better search and find that project later on) and you’ll be in, ready to start tiling or placing
objects.
If you already have an opened project, and you double click a template, you will be able to add a second room in the current
project (that now becomes a multi-room project: we’ll concentrate on multi-rooms projects later on in this Manual)
Rectangular Room
Another quick way in order to create a project is to use the Rectangle template in the Ribbon, as you can see in
this image: it is in the HOME section - Projects group – but it is not available if you have already an opened project.
You can launch the same feature by selecting the command FileNewRectangle. This command leads you to
the standard project window, where you can fill in the project generic information; therefore you have the opportunity of
specifying the size of the rectangle, as well as the height of the walls. In case you type in the wrong dimension, don’t worry, as
you will always be able to change the project size later on while planning (refer to modification section, later on in this chapter).
Free hand drawing
The free hand drawing usually is the most used feature to draw a customized project, as it allows you to draw
any shape you need. You can start this command in several ways:
- by clicking the Create Room button in the Ribbon (in the HOME section - Projects group, disabled if a project is
already opened)
- by clicking the shortcut Ctrl+N, that can be used also if a project is already opened
- by selecting the command FileNewManual Drawing
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Once specified the project generic information, the desktop will let you placing the corners of the room: you can click the
left mouse button in any position in order to start with the origin of the room. Then move the mouse to the next corner’s
location, and click again in order to create the wall. Do it again and again ‘till the first corner you created. The Application will
recognize that the room is complete, and will close it for you.
If you made any mistake with any of the corners you created, you can roll back by clicking the
right mouse button, and
selecting the command Undo point; this choice will let you delete the last corner, so that you can fix it again.
Drawing corners with the left mouse button is a very quick way to draw corners, thanks to the snap to the grid of the desktop,
but sometimes it is not as accurate as you need. For this reason, if the walls of the rooms are orthogonal (all horizontal and
vertical) you can use a trick in order to get as fast as accurate: once specified the first corner thanks to the left mouse button
(as any point you choose for the first corner is correct), press the O keyboard button to switch to orthogonal mode. Once you
click the O button, you can see that despite the position of the mouse, the wall you’re going to draw will always be vertical
or horizontal. In this mode, you can specify the direction you want to the wall to be designed into, and start typing the length
of the wall (consider the unit measure you currently have selected, which is visible at the right-bottom corner of the status bar
of the application). Click the Enter button when the you finish typing, and you will see that the wall is there in the layout.
Proceed by moving the mouse in a different direction, then type again Enter to confirm. For the last wall, you can still click
the first corner of the room with the left mouse button, or even right click with the mouse and select Close.
By using CAD 2D tools (in empty project)
With the CAD 2D tools you can create more complex shapes, and use them to create new rooms (and objects too, as you will
later on in this guide).
You will now learn how to create a new room starting from an empty project (but it is evident that you can use these tools any
time in your project, in order to create more rooms or 3D Objects).
First of all close the existing project, if any, and get back to the LivePage.
In the Home tab of the Ribbon, select command Empty project.
As always, the Application will ask you the generic information about the project. After filling in the project details, you will get
to the desktop; of course, it will be empty and the Application will now wait for you.
Before starting always remember that, in order to create a room, you have to create a closed shape (That’s why when we
learned about the free hand drawing, we started and closed the layout in the same point).
So let’s start! Open the Ribbon tab dedicated to CAD 2D tools. Here you have available several entities in order to draw a
layout.
Line: as you enter the command, you can set the first point with the left mouse button or typing point coordinates
+ Enter keyboard button; for the second one you can use the mouse again, or typing the length of the line and the angle you
want to have between the line and the X axis. The Application still remains in the line draw mood, so that you can draw a
second line starting from the final point of the former one. If you want to stop drawing lines, press ESC keyboard button, or
right click and select menu Cancel. If you want to modify the line later on, select it with the left mouse button, click over the
node (the blue ball) and drag it somewhere else. If you pick the line in the middle, you can move it along the desktop.
Rectangle: same as for the line, you can draw a rectangle using the left mouse button, or typing the first point coordinates and
its horizontal and vertical extension (press Enter in order to confirm the typed values). Look at the negative values in the
fields: once you have placed the first point of the rectangle, try moving the mouse all around: you will see the negative values
changing depending on the sector you are moving the mouse over. That’s a very useful way to understand which direction the
negative values will draw in. You can modify the rectangle (and every other CAD 2D entity) pretty the same way you did with
the line just before, that’s to say by picking the lines in order to move it, or the nodes to change it.
Circle: there are several ways to draw a circle. The most common one is to specify a center and a radius. You can set the circle
center by using the left mouse button or typing the center coordinates, then type the value of the radius (or set it using the
mouse again, also using the available snaps in the layout desktop). Try out yourself the other command for drawing a circle, as
they are pretty self-explicable.
Arch:
- Point-point-radius: specify the points you want the arch to start and end with, finally the radius of the arch. As always,
you can use the left mouse button in order to set the needed points, rather than type the coordinates of the first
point, the distance and radius for the second one, the value of the radius.
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3 points: the Application asks you to set (one after the other) the first, second and third point of the arch
Tangent-point-radius: you need to select one of the existing lines to specify the tangent, the point you want the
arch to start from, the radius of the arch, finally the extension (magnitude) of the arch.
Curves: this command allows you to draw the so called splines. Splines are curved lines, where the
shape and the angles are made of consecutive points.
As you can see in this image, the curve follows up the tangent line made up by the last point you are
drawing.
You can stop drawing the spline by right clicking the mouse button and selecting the command Stop,
while Close will close the shape, Continue will allow you to keep on drawing and Cancel will delete all
the spline you are drawing. Once designed the spline, if you left click on it, you can modify it later on just by picking the nodes
of the spline (the blue balls) and dragging them up to the new position. If you right click on the spline and select add, you can
create a new node in the section of the curve where the mouse is.
Polyline: this is the same behavior of the Free hand drawing command you already saw while creating a new project; in CAD
2D, by right clicking the mouse you can anytime decide to stop drawing (for open polylines) or close it. If you decide to close
it, the Application will ask you if you want to use such shape to create a room or an object. This is the most common (and used)
CAD 2D feature in order to draw objects and new rooms
Polyline from selection: this command allows you to group different entities in a single polyline. Remember that all entities
have to be connected each other; that shape can be a closed or open one. In order to create a polyline from selection, select
all the entities (by picking them one by one with the left mouse button or dragging it in order to include all of them) and click
right button once selection is complete.
Room by selection: this command allows you to convert a group of entities to a room. There are conditions in order to be able
to run this command: the entities you are going to select have to be one connected to the other, describing a closed shape.
Moreover all those entities have not to be inside an existing room. Any new room, in fact, has to be designed outside the
existing ones.
Text: this command allows you to draw text and descriptions wherever in the desktop. Select the point where to start drawing
the text, the height of the letters (by using the left mouse button or typing its value), the orientation of the text (horizontal,
diagonal, …) and finally you will access the mask where to type the text you need and choose the text color. Remember that
by right clicking the text once saved in the project, you can move, rotate, change it again, or delete it.
Dimension: once you have completed your room layout, it may be useful to draw its dimension for printing purposes. The
Application can automatically create a dimension for each wall of the room, by selecting the command DimensionAutomatic
Dimension, and deciding if you want the lines to be placed inside or outside the room. Indeed, if you want to manually measure
any detail of the layout, you need to select the command DimensionDimension: select the needed configuration, finally
proceed picking up the starting and ending point of the dimension, together with the position you want the dimension to be
placed in the layout. It is very easy to follow up the Application’s instructions while drawing it: remember that you can use any
existing snap, such as the grid snap, existing objects, or CAD entities (sometimes it is useful to draw constructional entities in
order to have available snaps in the project. Remember that CAD 2D entities won’t be seen in the graphic output of the project,
as they are just construction entities) .
Save room in components
If you think that the room you have just designed can be useful in the next future, you can save it in the Room Components
(also called Rooms Templates) and use it again as a room shape for a new project. You can proceed saving the room template
by clicking the right mouse button inside the room, and selecting the command Add to components. The application will ask
you to name the template, so that you will be able to search it later on (within the Room component window) using the search
field at the top. As you already know, you can double click over it in order to create a new project starting from that shape
template.
Note that a room template contains the room floor and walls only; it will not include the covering materials and/or 3D Objects
(Furnishing elements) eventually available inside the original project.
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How to move
With your mouse
You can move the room layout in the desktop of your application using the mouse controls:
By rotating the wheel mouse button you can change the zoom of the project
When you Zoom In, you will notice that you can miss the part of project you are interested in. With the next mouse
movement you can learn how to move the desktop again in order to see what you want.
By keeping the wheel mouse button pressed and moving the mouse you can pan. Pan your project means to move
the desktop sheet in order to see the part of the project you need to focus on. Pan is usually useful when you have
zoomed in the project and you’re missing the right area of the project.
If you double click the left mouse button inside the room layout, you will Zoom MAX the project (that’s to say that
you will see all the project extension).
This is a very useful opportunity when you have Zoomed In/Out and Panned your project, and you quickly need to
restore the full view of it.
If you right click in the layout window, a context menu will appear. A context menu is a list of commands
dedicated to the object/entity you have just selected.
This image shows a context menu related to a corner (notice the title: any title’s context menu tells you
what it refers to).
Try to practice a bit, in order to notice that the position where you right click the mouse is very important:
- if you right click inside the room, you will see all generic commands and the ones related to rooms
- if you right click over the internal side of the wall, you will see all commands related to walls;
- if you right click over one of the lines of an object, you will see all commands related to objects
- if you right click over a light or one if its lines, you will see all commands related to lights
-…
So this is a very useful shortcut in order to get to the most useful commands you need to use for a certain item.
With your keyboard
If you want to Zoom In/Out without the mouse, you can also use the + and - keyboard buttons.
+ means Zoom In
- means Zoom Out
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Move walls
You can move any wall from within the layout window.
First of all move the mouse cursor on the internal side of the wall (you understand about the right
position as the wall color changes to blue, and a small tooltip tells you the wall size). On the internal
side of the wall click the right mouse button, as you can see in the
image, and select command Move.
The Application now asks you to specify the first (starting) point of the
movement: using the left mouse button, you can specify ANY point in
the screen, as the starting and ending point are just references for the
Application in order to understand how far you want to move that
wall. Secondly, you will select the destination point.
Notice that you can do it both using the mouse (clicking with the left
mouse button where you want the destination point to be set) or even
typing the distance of the movement in the available fields (one is for
the length of the movement, the second one is related to the
movement orientation: you can switch from one to the other with
the TAB keyboard button)
In case you make any mistake, use the shortcut Ctrl + Z or the UNDO button in the upper-left corner of the
Application window, as you can see in the image. The opposite of UNDO is REDO (the specular button) whose
shortcut is Ctrl + Y .
Walls height and width
Move the mouse cursor on the internal side of the wall (as you have seen in the section above). On the internal side of the wall
click the right mouse button, and select command Width: you have now the opportunity of seeing the current wall’s width,
and modify it. You can also ask the Application to set that width to all walls of the project, by enabling the related check button.
If you want to change walls’ height, right click again on the internal side of the wall you want to change, and select command
Height. In this case if the check called “Apply to all walls of the room” is enabled you can specify one height only, which will be
the new height of all walls in the project. If you disable that check, you are now referring just to the selected wall, where you
can specify different height values for the right and left corner.
Differently from previous versions, Pegasus does not delete anymore the tiles you already placed on the walls prior the
height modification.
Columns
With this command you can create an external/internal column inside an existing wall.
Move the cursor on the internal side of the wall you want to create the niche in, then right click the cursor over it and select
command Create column. Still keeping the mouse over the internal part of the wall, specify where you want the niche to start:
you can use left mouse button to rapidly set the starting point, or type the distance of the niche
from the left/right corner of the wall (you can switch from one to the other typing fields with
the TAB keyboard button) and press Enter .
Then specify the size of the niche: again you can quickly do it with the left mouse button, or
typing the exact and accurate size you want for the niche. Finally, tell the Application if you
want the niche to be inside or outside the room: the mouse direction will be the reference in order to understand if it is in or
out. Same as before: left click the mouse button if you want to be quick, or type the internal/external extension you want to
refer to.
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Holes/Niches
With this command you can create holes in any position of the wall. ATTENTION: you do not have to do create holes prior
placing a window, as windows already make an automatic hole in the wall, even when you move them later on. So use this
command only if you want the wall to have a real ‘architectural’ hole in it, or if you want to create a niche, as we’ll see in a few
moments. Move the cursor on the internal side of the wall you want to create the niche in, then right click the cursor over it
and select command Create hole/niche.
The Hole/niche properties mask will appear, so that you can specify any details of the hole/niche such as size and elevation.
Not all the mask controls are enabled: those who are not, refer to windows and doors properties. You will find them enabled
when you will open doors/windows properties.
Note the Niche group of commands in the next image on the left: if ‘Activate’ check button is unchecked, this means that you’re
going to create a hole in the wall: you will really see outside the room, and sun light will enter the room while in Navigation
and/or Rendering process.
If you check the ‘Activate’ check button, you can decide the depth of the niche; it usually will be less than the width of the wall,
so that you will be able to locate the niche in the wall.
Once you click OK, the Application will ask you to displace the hole/niche in the project: you can see it’s shape and drag it all
around the room. Keep the mouse over the internal side of the wall, and click the left mouse button where you want to drop
it. Alternatively, you can specify with the mouse the wall to refer to, and type the distance between the hole/niche and the
left/right corner; you already know that you can switch between left and right field using the TAB button of the keyboard.
In the image on the right you can realize the difference between a hole (left) and a niche (right/bottom)
Sloping roofs
When you create a new project, the Application create a ceiling for you. The standard elevation of the ceiling (and the height
of the walls) can be modified in the preferences (options) of the Application , as you have seen in the Introduction chapter.
Such a ceiling is horizontal.
If you need to create sloping roofs you can move the cursor on the internal side of the wall you
want the sloping roof to start from, then right click the cursor over it and select command Sloping
roofsAdd.
You will open the Sloping Roof properties, where you can set the roof dimensions.
If you made any mistake, you can change that roof again by clicking the right mouse button on
the sloping roof line and select command: Sloping roofsProperties (or double click it with the
left mouse button). Sloping roofsDelete allows you to remove the sloping roof and get back to the horizontal (standard)
ceiling.
If you search for Velux windows in the Components panel, you can see that those windows can be applied to sloping
roofs only: starting from Pegasus, indeed, you can place them on horizontal ceilings too. That is a very useful feature also
in order to allow natural light entering the scene from the top. As you will see in the chapter related to Rendering techniques,
sun and natural light are very important for a realistic illumination of the scene.
Note that if you add a sloping roof the consecutives walls, the Application will automatically merge them around the corner.
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Moving corners
Moving corners is important when you want to change the room dimensions/shape.
Move the cursor on the corner you want to move, then right click the cursor over it and select command Move (always have a
look at the title of the context menu you get each time you right click the mouse button, as it reveals the object/entity the
Application is referring to: if you don’t find the command you are searching for, probably you have right-clicked over the wrong
object. So close the context menu by clicking outside it, and try again on the correct entity, selecting one of its construction
lines).
When you enter the Corner move mood, you can drag&drop that corner somewhere else. As usual, you can use the left mouse
button for the new position, or you can be more accurate by typing the distance from the first position in the dedicated fields
and click Enter Keyboard button.
When moving the corner, you can press the O keyboard button in order to enable the orthogonal mode, being sure to move
the corner just horizontally or vertically.
Splitting existing walls
It can be useful to divide existing walls of the project; sometimes you need to really create more walls and modify the shape
of the room, sometimes you need to split the walls just in order to easily tile them in different ways.
Move the cursor on the internal side of the wall you want to divide, then right click the cursor over it and select command Split
(you can also select the button Split available in the Layout section of the Ribbon, in the Inside Walls group).
Now the Application asks you to define where to split the wall: as usual, you can use the left mouse button in order to quickly
split the wall, even if you know that the mouse is hooked to the grid snap (unless you press the S keyboard button, as you will
see in the last section of this Chapter).
Indeed, if you want to be more accurate when splitting the wall, instead of using the left mouse button use the mouse just to
refer to the wall to be divided, than type the distance between the new corner and the existing ones. You already know that
by clicking the TAB keyboard button you switch between the left/right distance: the highlighted filed is the active one.
Don’t forget to look at the Application status bar if you do not remember the unit measure you are currently working in.
Finally, it is important to notice that if the wall has already been tiled, by splitting it the Application will remove existing tiles
and the wall will become empty again. For this reason it is important to decide how to manage the room walls before starting
laying down materials.
Subdividing the room
Sometimes you need to place inner walls (and doors) inside a room you have already created. An option you have is to
draw an object (the inner wall/s) and place it inside the room, but you will not be able to place doors on them: so we
discourage you working that way. For this purpose you can use a new feature (available starting from DomuS3D® Pegasus) that
allows you to divide a room.
Say your current room is like the one you see in the left image: you want to divide it as you can see on the right image.
In order to do that click the right mouse button inside the room, and select command Subdivide room. You will have the
opportunity of drawing internal walls: the former room will be divided in 2 rooms, and the project will become a multi-room
project. The Application will try to keep the original tiling on place (if any on the old walls), and you will be able to locate doors
and dynamic doors in the new walls in between rooms.
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UNDO
It is very important to notice that in case you have made any mistake, you can roll back to the previous state of the project by
clicking the shortcut Ctrl + Z , as usual in every WindowsTM application. You can do the same also selecting
the UNDO command in the upper-left corner of the Application window, as you can see in this image. The
opposite of UNDO is REDO (the specular button) whose shortcut is Ctrl + Y .
Shortcuts available in Layout window
‘TAB’
‘S’
‘O’
‘+/-’
‘P’
When you are moving objects or drawing new entities, sometimes you have fields where you
can start typing in order to be more accurate in your process. In case there are more than one
field, you can click the Tab Keyboard button in order to switch between one and the other.
Click it as many times you want, and remember not to move the mouse while tabbing or
typing the measure/distance, so that you’ll keep on focusing on the wall/object you formerly
pointed to.
This button allows you to enable/disable the desktop grid. When the grid is enabled the mouse will be snapped
to the grid (depending on the grid size, that can be customized in the Options/Preferences of the program); this
is useful in order to quickly draw/move if the grid step is compatible with the needed dimension. When grid is
disabled the mouse can move everywhere in the desktop; very flexible, but be careful as it will be very difficult
to reach the needed dimension, unless you will use the typing fields.
If you want to disable the grid click S , even while drawing or moving objects; click it again in order to enable the
grid again.
When you draw rooms or CAD 2D entities, it allows you to enable/disable the orthogonal mood. You can click it
even while drawing.
Allows you to Zoom In/Out the desktop
When dragging an object along the desktop, allows you to change the dragging point. You will switch as many
corners of the shape you are dragging as many times you click the P button.
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Available snaps in Layout
In the following table you can find available snaps together with their graphic reference and description. The snaps are available
in the Layout window, when drawing entities or moving objects.
Symbol
Description
Vertex
Snaps to the endpoints of lines,
arches, polylines.
Close point
Snaps on any closest point you can
find on lines, arches, circles,
polylines.
Mid point
Snaps to medium
referenced entity.
point
of
Perpendicular
Snaps to perpendicular point given
by drawing line and target line.
Center
Snaps to the center of a circle or
radius.
Tangent
Snaps to the tangent point
referenced by drawing line and a
given circle or arch.
Intersection
Snaps to the crossing point given by
entities intersection.
You can enable/disable snaps (even while drawing entities) clicking the S keyboard button, or the button
in the status
bar. If you click the right mouse button on the snaps button, and select command Settings, you open the snaps configuration
(see image below) where to set the snaps you want to be available.
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Chapter 2: Navigation
The Navigation window
Introduction
The Navigation window is the place where you can see the project in 3D, moving all around in order to change the needed
point of view. Also, Navigation window allows you to interact with the project, modifying some parts of it: for example you can
place new objects and furnishing or move/delete the existing ones. Or even tile floor/walls/countertops/objects in many ways,
change materials , …; we encourage you to plan as much as possible in Navigation window if you’re operating together with
your customer, so that he/she will have the opportunity of keeping concentrated on the 3D of the scene.
From within this window, deciding the best point of view to refer to, you will launch the rendering process so that you can
create a photograph of the scene.
The graphic quality you see in the Navigation window, in fact, is not the best you can achieve with the Application; the best
one can be reached by using one of the available (optional) Rendering Engines.
Even if the Navigation window graphic quality will never be as good as the rendering one, you can tune it up by getting to the
Preferences (Options) mask, as you saw in the Introduction chapter. Remember, indeed, that the maximum Navigation quality
can be used just with high performance graphic cards and computers.
How to open Navigation
If you just created your first project, the only opened window (apart the LivePage) of the project is the
Layout. So you need to open the Navigation window once you want to start seeing the project in 3D. You
can do this in 3 different ways:
1. Select the Navigate button available in the Ribbon (refer to Virtual Navigation group)
2. Use keyboard shortcut Shift + F6 (unless you have customized it in a different way)
3. Click the right mouse button wherever (apart on the existing entities) in the layout desktop, and select
command Virtual navigation, as you can see in this image.
If the Navigation window is already opened, by selecting one of the aforementioned commands will not
open a second navigation, but will make the existing one visible top of windows.
Please, note that you do not have to close the Navigation window once you go back to the layout; you can leave it opened and
keep on working in the layout or the tiling window. While hidden, in fact, the Navigation window will not use any resource of
your computer, and will automatically update itself with the project news once you will make it visible again.
Finally, Ctrl+Tab is a very useful shortcut that allows you to switch between the opened windows in the Application.
Refresh
In case you cannot find the expected news when switching from the layout/wall window to the Navigation
one, try to force the update by selecting the button Update view available in the Navigation group of the
Ribbon (see image on the left).
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How to move
With your mouse
It is important to learn how to move in the Navigation window, as the more expert you’ll be in reaching the needed point of
view, the quicker you will design while in 3D.
Everyone has a mouse connected to the PC, so let’s start understanding how to move using the standard mouse buttons.
When you open the Navigation window, the Application will move the observer in:
- the middle of the room, by default
- the first point of view in case you formerly saved in the project one or more points of view
From that position you can move by using the mouse buttons this way:
If you keep the left mouse button pressed, the observer remains in the same position in the layout, but the eyes/head
will move depending on the direction you are moving the mouse in. If you move it forward the observer will look at
the ceiling. If you move backward the observer will look at the floor. If you move left/right the observer will rotate
left/right. If you get lost (and can happen the very first time you practice, don’t worry) click the ‘N’ keyboard button in order
to Normalize the view, which is to say restore the view at the original inclination.
The right mouse button allows you to move (walk) inside the room (change the position in the layout). If you keep
the right mouse button pressed and start moving the mouse, you will proceed inside the room. If you move it forward,
the observer will go ahead; if you move backward, the observer will step back. If you move it right/left, observer will
move laterally
Central wheel button is used in order to move the observer higher/lower. In this way you can easily change the
elevation of the eyes.
Try to practice a bit with the mouse and become expert in moving: a good exercise is to get from one corner to the opposite
one. Of course you will need to use both left and right button: the left one will set the direction, while the right one will really
let the observer walking in the scene.
Gamers are used to move with the mouse in addition with the keyboard buttons, especially W, A, S, D.
With your keyboard
The same movements you’ve seen in the previous paragraph can be achieved by using the keyboard buttons. There are
predefined buttons that allow you to navigate the scene, and you can customize them as you
prefer. If you click Configuration button in the Ribbon (Navigation group) you open a mask where
to see the current setup, change it as you need and even adjust the mouse rotation and speed.
The current setup is the standard one in PC gaming. In the next image you can see the Navigation
customization mask.
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Note that you can use both keyboard and mouse movements in order to walk quicker in the room: why don’t you try to keep
the left mouse button pressed in order to set direction, and W (keep it pressed too and release when reaching destination)
keyboard button in order to go forward.
With your SpaceNavigator
Space Navigator is a 3D joystick made by 3DConnexion
(http://www.3dconnexion.com). It’s made for gaming as
well as for technical
design and graphic environments, as it is easy to move in the
space thanks to the
flexible controller it is made of, as you can see in this image.
With
Space
Navigator moving in the scene becomes fluent and natural;
using keyboard and
mouse moving is not continuous, while with SN you can walk
along the scene
without stopping anytime.
When used together with the mouse it allows you to work with two hands while in Navigation window: with the Space
Navigator you move in the scene, with the mouse you drag&drop tiles, objects and make modifications. You can dramatically
save time while planning and, especially, let your customers say WOW when you let them moving in the room in so a natural
way.
In the following image you can see Space Navigator flexibility and movements allowed. Space Navigator is not included in the
Application, and can be ordered separately while purchasing the software or online with third party vendors. Refer to
3dconnexion web site for further information about this optional hardware.
Use standard view points
Standard views do not allow to walk in the scene, but they are a quick way to get to predefined
locations in the room.
In the Ribbon (in the Navigation group) you can find 7 buttons (that can even be customized with
their related keyboard shortcuts). The bigger one allows you to get to the default point of view when
opening the Navigation window (standard shortcut is Ctrl + 1 ). The remaining
six allow you to move at the edge of the room, or at the top of it; the top is very
a useful one as it allows you to have a look at the room from above, as you can
see in this image (standard shortcut is Ctrl + 6 ).
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Navigation useful features
Save current point of view
If you want to save a 3D point of view in order to find it again when re-opening the project, you can click My Views
button in the Navigation group of the Ribbon. You get the same result even by clicking the shortcut button F3. You
will access the Views management mask, where you can save current or even load different point of view available
in the saved list.
F3 shortcut works both in layout and navigation window, but just in the latter you can save a point of view.
Saved views are usually important if you want to:
- create a movie or a walk around in the scene (as we will see in the next paragraphs)
- create renderings with the same perspective (maybe using different tiles/colors/objects) in order to let your customer
focusing on the variations by looking at the scene from the same point of view.
The trash button in the mask allows you to delete the selected view.
Also notice that if you have saved some views, when opening the navigation window the Application will use the first view
point in the list as default position for navigation.
Change Field of View
While navigating the object it might be useful to change the field of view. It is the same effect that you get in a camera
by opening/closing the camera lens. It might be useful to change the FOV especially when you have very small rooms.
You can change the FOV clicking the Field of View button in the Navigation group of the Ribbon.
Set background
If your project contains windows or holes (always important when rendering the scene, as the sun light is a crucial
component for a wonderful rendering image) it may be useful to let customers seeing a real image of the outside.
For this purpose you can open the navigation window, move the point of view so that you can see the window and
the outside, click the Background button available in the Navigation group of the Ribbon and
choose a background panoramic image. Once you click one of the available backgrounds you
can immediately see the image outside the window: move the slider in order to rotate the
background as you need. Backgrounds, in fact, usually are panoramic images that allow you
seeing 360° views. You can find some backgrounds right after installation, or download new
ones from the Catalogue section in the Live! page.
Backgrounds are .dds files (stored in the …\DomuS3D\Bitmap\Backgrounds folder), and you
can add your own backgrounds by copying .dds, .png or .jpg files in such folder, or by selecting
a new working folder for backgrounds using the … button highlighted in this image. In case
you use .jpg or .png format, you will not be able to rotate the background, and it will be fixed
in the scene.
Advanced effects in Navigation window
The Navigation window available starting from Pegasus version allows you to improve the graphic quality if your PC is
equipped with powerful graphic card.
Close the Navigation window (if open) and open the Application Properties mask by selecting the command FILEOptions. As
you see in the next image, try to enable all effects in the navigation, open the advanced section and check the sun light control.
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Open again the Navigation window and check the difference.
You should now see more detailed materials and tiles finishes, and the graphic quality of the scene should be better. On the
contrary, navigation should be a bit slower (depending on the project complexity and computer power).
By enabling the Sun light control you are now able to open the natural light mask directly in Navigation, clicking the
Natural light button in the Navigation group of the Ribbon. Change the Sun position and intensity, and check the result
in real time inside the navigation window.
As you can see in the image, Ambient Occlusion effect (together with some tiles finishes) is now available in Navigation too, so
that you can have shadows effects where surfaces get in contact.
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Add objects to project
Choosing from components window
As you need to browse the internal library in order to find the needed objects, it is important to learn the way of using the
components window.
The quickest way to find an item is to use the SEARCH field, by typing the
item code, or the description, the collection name, etc…
(For example, if you type in a Manufacturer name, you will filter the library
just with the items coming from that Company).
The most accurate is the text you’re typing in, the better will be the search
criteria and the items selection to refer to. If you want to rollback your
selection, click CANCEL or delete the text and press Enter keyboard
button.
Alternatively, you can browse the component window depending on the
structure it is based on.
After Application setup, the first level is Macro-typology: it is a list of main
sections the objects refer to. If you click one of them, you will see all
typologies related to that Macro-typology. Indeed, if you wan to avoid
Macro-typology selection (which means to see ALL available typologies),
click FORWARD. Once you select a typology, you can see a list of all
Manufacturers available in this selection. Once you see the needed object,
click it over the preview image, drag and drop it in the scene.
If you want to customize the order for browsing, open the Options section
you find at the bottom of the panel (Note: it is not the Application Options
command. Look at the Components Options button in the image on the
left). Here in, you can find several controls that allow you to customize the
components section dedicated to Furnishing Elements.
Slide down to the Filters section, and here proceed enabling/disabling the
categories you want to see/hide, or move them up or down depending the
order you want to see while browsing.
We encourage you spending a few seconds in order to optimize at least
Furnishing Elements and Tiles components, as they are crucial while
designing: a good organization for these groups will allow you finding the items you need in just a few clicks.
Placing doors and windows
Architectural elements such as doors and windows usually are the first items to be placed in the project. When you install the
software you already have some doors and windows in the Application library.
First of all open the layout window of the project, as doors and windows can be placed just in this window. Next step is to
search for the door you want to place in the project: in the components section (the vertical panel on the left, unless you have
moved it somewhere else in the Application desktop) click the FURNISHING ELEMENTS panel. You can browse the library by
selecting the related Macro Typology (Architectural) the Typology (Doors or Dynamic Doors), finally the Manufacturer you want
to refer to. Now you should have a list of doors available in the preview section of the component.
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Keep pressed the left mouse button on the preview image,
and drag the door in the layout window; now that you are
over the project you can release the left button.
You can see that while moving the mouse you’ll move the
door too (it is the red rectangle linked to the mouse cursor).
You cannot leave the door in the middle of the room, so try
placing the mouse cursor over the internal walls of the
project: you’ll notice that the door automatically rotates and aligns to the wall, and becomes green (this is the confirmation
that you can now locate it)). Now that the door knows the destination wall, it becomes green and a double measure control
shows up, giving you the distance between the door and the left/right corner of the wall. In order to definitively release the
door you can click again the left button if the position is correct, but if you want to be even more accurate leave the mouse
where it is in order to specify the destination wall, and start typing the distance you want to refer to. In the image above you
can see that the selected distance to refer to is the one between the door and the left corner. In case you want to refer to the
right one, click the TAB keyboard button to switch to the right distance, and type again that distance.
If you want to place a window, go back to the components section, search windows by browsing typologies or by writing
“window” in the search field; then follow up the same steps as before, as windows have the same behavior as doors.
Note that doors and windows can be dragged only on the internal side of the wall. They can be dropped only when you start
seeing the double measure system; if you don’t see it, it means that the mouse cursor is not over the internal side of the wall.
If you wan to exit the procedure, click the ESC keyboard button, or even the right mouse button.
Finally, let’s talk about the difference between Doors and Dynamic Doors typology. A dynamic door (window) is not a static
object, and can be opened/closed by the designer while in navigation, by clicking the left mouse button over the door/window
handle.
Keep in mind that usually windows are transparent, hence sun light always passes through; doors will not let it get in the scene
if they are closed. By opening them (if they are dynamic) will allow some sun light enter the room.
Doors and windows properties
You can change the doors or windows properties anytime during your design process.
You will now learn how to access a door property panel: double click
with the left mouse button over one of the lines of the door in the
layout window.
The image on the left shows you an example of a possible line where
to double click.
A second method in order to access the properties mask is to click once
the right mouse button over one of the lines of the door in the layout
window; the image on the right shows you that the mouse has been clicked over the opened
door line. As soon as you click the right mouse button, a context menu appears with the
commands related to the door. Select the last command in the list: Properties.
SUGGESTION: When you open a context menu, always have a look
at the title. The title tells you about the item the menu is referring
to. If you’re not finding the desired command, probably you have
right clicked the wrong entity. That might be possible when you
have overlaid objects.
Here we are in the Door properties mask: you can see it in the image
on the left.
With the red squares you can see the most used controls when
dealing with a door: opening side and door position.
The opening side (controlled by the Right opening check) is given by
the handle position. By default, the handle is on the left, and if you
enable this control, you’ll put it on the right.
The Position group allows you to decide the position of the door in
the wall width area. Especially used with multi-rooms projects, Internal means that the door belongs to the current room, while
External means that it belongs to the adjacent room: in this case the floor available in the sill will be the same as the one of the
room.
Remember to disable the Show door opening check in case you’re dealing with sliding doors, as the Application does not
automatically recognize them.
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Placing objects in layout
Placing a 3D object in the project layout is as easy as placing a door. These are the steps to follow in order to add an object to
the project:
6. Search the object in the components window
7. When you see it, click the left mouse button on the object image; keep the mouse pressed
8. Move the mouse over the layout, and release the mouse button
9. Move the object to the place you want to drop it
10. Click the left mouse button in order to drop it
As already seen with doors, the object will automatically rotate and align
itself to the wall as soon as you move the mouse over the internal side of a
wall.
When aligned to the wall, the double measure system will appear, in order
to let you see the distance between the object and the left/right corner of
the wall it is aligned to.
You can click the left mouse button in order to definitively place it in the
position where the mouse is, or you can start typing the exact measure
using the left/right distance (you can switch between the two by clicking
the TAB keyboard button).
While dragging the object in the layout, you can use the + / - +/- keyboard buttons in order to rotate the object by 45° (+ for
anticlockwise, - for clockwise).
While dragging the object in the layout, you can use the R keyboard button in order to rotate the object by an angle different
than 45°, and also in order to quickly change its elevation from the floor.
Avoid automatic rotation
Sometimes you do not want the object to automatically rotate on the wall you are aligning it to (this is the case of shower
trays, as you want to decide where to place the drain): in this case you can use the SPACEBAR keyboard button in order to
disable/enable the automatic rotation of the object.
Align the object to angled walls
Sometimes you do not know the correct rotation of the object, and you need to use the same orientation of existing
objects/walls: while dragging the object in the layout, you can use the A keyboard button in order to align the object to
existing lines; once you have clicked A button, the object freezes and the mouse cursor changes as the Application asks you to
select the line you want to align the object to. It can be a wall, or one of the lines of existing objects. Once you have selected
the align reference entity, you can keep on dragging the object in order to release it with the correct orientation.
Detailed position in the layout
We mention, finally, a method that allows you to place the object in detailed positions when you need to refer to existing
objects: when you drag the object in the layout, if you click the right mouse button, you have the
opportunity of selecting detailed position algorithms.
1 Point, for example, allows you to specify an existing point (… such as wall or objects corners) as the
destination point of the object.
Probably the most used is the Point + delta, as it allows you to select a reference point, and specify
the offset you want to locate the object to.
We suggest you practicing with these options: note that the status bar usually tells you what the
Application is waiting for. That’s a good suggestion for you in order to understand what to do next.
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Placing objects in navigation window
Placing objects in the layout window allows you to be as accurate as you need. But if accuracy is not your target and you take
care more of speed and show (especially when designing together with your customer) it is amazing to place 3D objects in the
scene within the Navigation window.
Pick up the object from the component window, and drag it in the Navigation window: release the left mouse button when
you are in the scene. You can now move the object all around the room, and you can notice the as soon as you approach a
wall, the object automatically rotates and aligns itself to that wall.
If you click again the left mouse button, the object will drop in the
position the mouse currently is; if the object is aligned to the wall, you
will see the double measure controls that allow you specifying the
exact distance between the object and the left/right corner (Same
concept as in the layout: as usual, use TAB keyboard button in order
to enable left or right distance).
SUGGESTION: we warmly encourage you working in the Navigation
window, as the Application already provides several useful features for
objects and tiling. Also, Maticad will keep on enforcing the Navigation
window in the next versions, in order to let you find as many options
as possible).
If you are working just with the mouse, it is important that you first move the observer so that the location is visible in the
scene prior dragging the object.
If, indeed, you are using the Space Navigator as well (see Introduction) you can get rid of the location you’re looking at, as the
Space navigator will allow you moving the observer also while dragging the object. That’s a real amazing way of working with
2 hands in 3D, and it improves speed to your work and fascinates the customer in case he/she is looking at the project.
From external file (DXF/3DS)
You have seen how to place objects in the scene picking them up from the Components window, that contains the Application
internal library.
But it may happen that you need to use external files, downloaded from the Internet or loaded from DVD’s. In this case the
Application allows you to load DXF, COLLADA and 3ds files, provided that they are 3D objects.
You can load those files into the project operating in the Layout window. Open the
Layout section of the Ribbon and, as you can see in the image, select the command:
Furnishing ElementsFrom external files.
The Application will ask you to locate the file on disk. Select it and confirm importation.
You will be asked to confirm object scale prior importing it in the layout, where you can
position it the same way you do with standard objects from the library.
Remember that this object will live just inside the project it’s been placed into, as it has not been imported in the library too.
If you want to import it in the library you can choose one of following options: in the Ribbon, open the Database group, and in
the Furnishing elements section select Elements managementNew. Here you can specify item code, description etc.. and
load the external file by using the Import button.
Alternatively (and this command may be useful also in order to group more elements as a single item in the library) you can
select the command FileDatabaseFurnishing elementsNewSelect items group, as you can see in the next image.
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You will be asked to select the items you want to group, using the left mouse button. Confirm and stop selection by using the
right mouse button, and finally provide item information.
Usually external files are simple 3D files and do not have any material associated to their layers. Later on in this chapter you
will see how to assign new materials to the available sections of any object.
From external file (DAE)
COLLADA files are 3D objects usually created or converted with Google SketchUp; they are available in the Internet and can be
downloaded for personal use following the license terms available in the web site. In order to find them you can open a search
engine and type Google Wharehouse.
At the time of writing this manual the current address is: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/.
As you can see there are many thousands of items available for any room type. Search the one you need, download and save
the COLLADA file (.DAE file extension). Once saved the file in your computer, follow up the instructions you have see in the
previous paragraph, locate and load the .dae file in your project.
Usually external files are simple 3D files and do not have any material associated to their layers. Later on in this chapter you
will see how to assign new materials to the available sections of any object.
Note that some .dae files may not appear properly in the Navigation and/or rendering image; this may be caused by the design
technique used by the designer. In these cases, usually it is enough to open the file again with SketchUp, and change it properly.
Drawing with CAD 2D tools
In chapter 1 (Layout) you learned how to draw closed shapes by using the 2D CAD Tools (We saw it in order to draw a room).
The same concept can be used in order to draw simple objects, such as a countertop, a step, a base… Once you have designed
a closed shape with 2D CAD Tools, click the right mouse button over one of the shape lines, and select command Create object.
Application will ask you to specify the height of the object, its elevation from the floor, the basic color (that, indeed, will be
overlapped by textured materials, if you’ll apply them later on). As you click OK button, you’ll get back to the project layout,
where you can move the object and place it in the final destination.
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Modification
Move
There are several ways to move an existing object, also depending on the window you are working in. Let’s start from the
Layout window.
Select the object by clicking the left mouse button inside it: you can see that the object is highlighted and marked with blue
balls (see next image).
If you click again inside it with the left mouse button you can start moving it all around the layout. Click again the left button
to drop it in the new position. Note that, while moving you can type in the offset and the angle (and press return when finished)
in case you want to get rid of the mouse and provide a more accurate information. Also, if you want to fix the movement of
the object vertically or horizontally, press O keyboard button (as you may recall from the Layout chapter, while drawing or
moving, O button allows you to enable/disable orthogonal mood).
A second way of moving objects while in layout is by clicking the right mouse button over one of the object lines, and select
the command Move. In this case you enter the same (Move) mood you already saw when dragging the object from the library.
If you are in the Navigation window, you can move objects by clicking the right mouse button over the visible objects (any part
of them) and select command Move. If you are not selecting the needed object, maybe the observer is currently out of the
room. Step forward and enter the room (or change the point of view) and try again.
Rotate
You can rotate the object in the Layout window, when you are moving it. Click the right mouse button on one of the object
lines and select the command Move; start moving the object and rotate it with keyboard buttons + and - (steps by +/- 45°)
or R (for customized rotation angles), as already seen in the paragraph: Placing objects in Layout.
Copy (Duplicate)
You can copy (duplicate) an object in the Layout window. Click the right mouse button over one of the object lines, and select
command Copy. Finally, move the new object and place it in the correct position.
You can also use a quicker way, just clicking the left mouse button over the object while keeping pressed the Ctrl keyboard
button.
Delete
If you are in the Layout window you can delete an object by clicking it (anywhere in the object) with the left mouse button in
order to select it, then pressing the CANC keyboard button.
Alternatively click the right mouse button over one of the object lines, and select command Delete.
If you are in Navigation window click the right mouse button over the object (anywhere in the object), and select command
Delete.
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Change object size (Resize)
You can change the size of an object by getting to the Properties mask: click the right mouse button on one of the object lines
(or anywhere in the object if in Navigation window), and select the command Properties.
In the Properties mask (see next image) change the size/scale of the object and click OK. You will now see that the object
dimension is changed, and optionally you may need to reposition it depending on those changes.
This way of changing dimensions lengthen/shorten (resizes) the object, entirely. This command can be used if the resize
operation does not affect the graphic appearance of the object.
Stretch the object (Extend)
There are situations where the resize operation is not technically correct. Let’s think of a washbasin, where you want to stretch
the countertop only, leaving the basin as it is.
In such a situation an extension may become useful. Click the right mouse button on one of the object lines, and select
command Stretch. The Application asks you to specify the part of the object you want to extend. In the next image you can see
the way we have operated: a first click (left one of the green area, with the left mouse button) allows Application to understand
where to start extending from. Then, with the mouse you can tell the Application the direction you want to extend to (in this
case, right from the first point). Finally, we typed 50 (centimeters) in order to tell the Application the extensions entity, and
pressed Enter keyboard button. We did not have enough space on the countertop, in fact, to use the left mouse button again
and terminate extension, so the extension field has been useful in order to specify the correct extension we need.
In the next images you can see the washbasin before and after the extension procedure.
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Mirror
If you have asymmetric objects, and in the library there’s just the left (or right) version, you can obtain the specular copy by
yourself.
Once the object has been placed in the Layout, click the right mouse button on one of the object lines; select the command
Mirror.
The Application needs you to specify the line that will define the mirror: in the following image it is the vertical, red line in the
middle. This line tells the Application how to mirror the objects. Provide 2 points and you will obtain a new object, specular to
the first one by that mirror line (you can click the first one where you want; then it might be important that for the second one
you remain horizontal or vertical. For this purpose remember that you can enable Orthogonal mood, by pressing O keyboard
button)
Modify items details
If you want to change some elements details just once and save it again in the library (catalogues), you can double click the
element preview image that you see in the components window. By double clicking the preview image with the left mouse
button the Application will show you the element details mask, where to change item code, description, price, standard
elevation from the floor, etc..
Click the Modify button if you want to scale or resize the object, or even if you want to assign some materials to the available
layers.
Remember that those modifications affect the item available in the Application library, not the one(s) already present in the
project.
Materials
Check existing
If you need to remember which materials have been assigned to an object, you can do as follows. Open the Layout window,
click the right mouse button on one of the object lines, and select command Properties.
As you access the properties mask of the object, go the Materials section, as you can see in the next image.
Material names are language independent, and usually are the names given by the designer of the 3D object. If you can’t
understand which is which, click the Show button and select Selected class option: in this way the Application will show you
just the layer (called Class in the Application) you are currently selecting. Try selecting a different class and see how the object
preview changes consequently. The list on the right side of the mask tells you which material has been assigned to the selected
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layer. By clicking the Material button, you can modify this material (the effects, for example) or load a new one and assign it
to the layer. Indeed, this is not the easiest way to assign a material: in the next paragraph you will see a quicker way of assigning
materials to object classes.
Assign new from components window
The quickest way to assign a new material to an existing object is to drag and drop it from the Components window. Open the
Navigation window and move the point of view so that you can see the object you’re going to modify. Then, open the Materials
section in the Components window, find out the material you want to apply, select it, drag and drop it over the object. Do not
release the mouse for a while when you’re on the object: try moving the mouse over the object. If the object has more layers
the Application highlights the layer you’re over. As you can see in the next images, a yellow color tells you about the currently
selected layer. When you are on the desired layer, release the left mouse button to definitively drop the material. Do it as
many times as you want, even on the same layers.
Note: this is a graphic change you’re making to the object. None of these graphic modifications will be revealed by the project
estimate, so keep this in mind if you need to modify the cabinet’s price or material information.
Assign material to all walls and ceiling
You can assign a material to the walls or the ceiling using the same concept you saw in the previous paragraph. Nevertheless,
as you may have a lot of walls in the project, that way of working might be time consuming.
That’s why the Application gives you a way of assigning the same material to all the classes available in the project: get to the
Layout window, and select the needed material from the Materials Group in the Components window (for example:
MasonryCement). Drag and drop it in an empty area of the layout (without interfering with any object line). A mask will
popup, containing all the available generic classes of the project.
If you select INSIDEWALLS you will apply those material to all the internal walls of the project with 1 click. The classes you see
in this image refer to the generic architecture of the project, but if you enable Show all classes control, you can see also the
classes available in standard objects.
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Note: most of the covering features are concentrated in the Navigation window, in order to let you plan your schemes in 3D.
There, you can locate and operate on the surfaces you need to apply the materials to. This means that, if not specified, we
refer to commands and features available within the Navigation window.
Cover the floor
With a single tile (solid pattern)
Open the Navigation window, and select the Tiles section in the Components window.
Search the tile you want to apply on the floor. Before dragging the tile to the floor, check the tiles control panel in order to:
4.
5.
6.
Set the operation mood on the floor button
Set the grout value and color you need for the floor
Set the destination to Current room
Now the Application knows where you want to apply the tile, so you can click the left mouse button over the tile image,
drag&drop it over the floor.
You should now see the tile applied on the floor. If you made any mistake, you can change some pattern parameter (such as
rotation, or grout), and apply it again. The Application will take care of automatically deleting the old floor, and change it with
the new one.
If the tile has been loaded in the library with more than one image, the Application will take care of using all the available
images (off shaded effect). You can check if there are available multiple images for the same item by double clicking over the
tile image: if there are multiple images the off-shaded control will be checked, and you will see those images looping in the
preview section of the mask.
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Using dynamic patterns
The previous feature is very quick and useful when you need to tile the floor with just one tile. If you need to cope with more
than one format, or with more complex patterns, Dynamic patterns are your solution.
Open the Navigation window, and select the Layings section in the Components window. Search the pattern you want to work
with, and check the control panel in order to:
1.
2.
3.
Set the operation mood on the floor button (A)
Set the grout value and color you need for the floor (B)
Set the destination to Current room (C)
Finally, drag&drop the pattern on the floor, as you can see in the following image.
Now select Tiles section in Components window, search for the tile you want to apply, enable the button tool-tipped Change
similar tiles (A), finally drag&drop the tile inside the red slot (this pattern is divided in red and green slots: those colors help
you understanding which parts of the pattern still have to be covered by a real tile).
You will see that the dynamic pattern resizes depending on the tile size. Drag&drop the second tile on the remaining slot
(green) in order to complete the pattern.
With more complicated patterns (different tile formats) it may happen that the formats you select are not compatible each
other. In this case the Application will notify you about the incompatibility, and the list of formats in the Components window
will let you see the compatible formats (in green color), and those that are not (red color). If you made any mistake, click UNDO
button (or Ctrl + Z ), and drag&drop again the pattern. The Application will automatically take care of removing the old
floor.
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Change the grout of existing patterns
In case you need to change the grout of an existing pattern (without applying it again), you can click
the right mouse button over the pattern, and select the command Change grout.
Remember to specify the new grout value in coherence with the unit measure you formerly selected
in the Application preferences. If you do not remember it, look at the status bar, bottom right side
of the Application window.
Change the origin (starting point) of the pattern
In case the standard alignment of the tiles is not the one
you want (the Application starts tiling from the first corner
of the layout you designed), you can change it.
In the Navigation window, click the right mouse button on the
floor, and select command: Modify tiling position.
As you can see in the image below, the Application gives you a
graphic representation of the current origin: it is the yellow
sphere, and the red arrow starting from it gives you the idea of
the direction the tiling procedure goes through.
You can move the mouse in order to re-place the origin. The new
origin is represented by the green sphere: you can snap it to
current tiling (for example the tiles on the wall), objects and walls.
When you have found the new origin, click the left mouse button
in order to set it; you will see that the floor coverings will move
starting from the new origin.
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Delete the floor coverings
You already know that if you lay down a new floor over an existing
one, the Application takes care of removing the former one for you.
What about if you need to definitively remove the current floor
coverings, without applying a new one? When you are in the
Navigation window, click the right mouse button on the floor, and
select the command Delete tiling. In case you have a multi-room
project, you can delete the entire project’s floor by selecting the
Delete button you find in the Navigation-Wall section of the Ribbon (see image). Check the Floor and Furnishing elements
controls, and click OK. Note that Furnishing elements has to be checked in order to delete the doors sill coverings; this
procedure, indeed, will also delete the coverings on objects such as countertops, steps, etc… So, be careful not to check
Furnishing elements control if you have some coverings on objects too, and you want to keep them: better to manually remove
the sills coverings by clicking the right mouse button over them and select: Delete.
Change all floor tiles
Suppose you laid some tiles on the floor (e.g., a Chequered like
the one you can see in the image on the far left). In case you need
to change just one of the tiles and you do not want to apply again
the pattern, you can get to the Navigation window, click the right
mouse button over the tile you want to change, and select
command Change tileSingle.
Select the new tile you want to
replace this one with, finally tell
the Application if you want to
make the change on the floor only
(Total wall tiles) or in the project
(Total room tiles).
Change some tiles only
If you want to change some tiles only, from the Navigation window click the right mouse button over one of the tiles you want
to change, and select command Change tileMultiple selection. Proceed selecting one by one the tiles you want to change
(left image), with the left mouse button; click the right mouse button when you want to stop selection. Choose the new tile to
replace the old one with, and finally leave the check on Single tile when you’ll approach the Replacement type mask. In fact,
you want the Application to replace just the tiles you have manually selected one by one. In the left image you can see the
result of the Multiple selection replacement procedure.
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Cover the walls
Tile all walls with a single tile (solid pattern, strip by strip)
Note that when you work on walls, each time you drag&drop a tile over a wall you create a new strip on it. Basically you create
a sort of dynamic panel by adding, strip by strip, sections to the panel. Of course you have all the control you need in order to
change the panel configuration anytime. We will see how in the next few paragraphs.
Open the Navigation window, and select the Tiles section in the Components window.
Search the tile you want to apply on the walls. Before dragging the tile, check the tiles control panel in order to:
6.
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8.
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Set the operation mood on the walls button (A)
Set the grout value and color you need for the walls
Specify the number of tile-lines you want in the strip (B)
In (C) you are telling the Application that you want to create a new
strip (rather than applying the tile to an existing one)
10. Set the destination to Current room (D)
Now the Application knows the way you want to apply the tile, so you can click the left mouse button over the tile image,
drag&drop it over the wall (doesn’t matter which wall, as you are covering Current room, that’s to say all walls).
You should now see the tile applied on the first strip of the wall. Note that we have rotated the tile by 90° (as its image is
vertical, and we want it laid horizontally), and we have applied 3 lines (tile) in the new strip (which is the first one).
Now you can try to select a listello: in the next image you see that we have selected a new size (34x2,5) changed the rotation
to 0 (as the listello image is horizontal) and number of rows = 1:
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Roll-back the last strip
If you made an error in the last procedure, and you want to get rid of the last strip, do not UNDO
( Ctrl + Z ), because just in this case the correct operation is to click the button you see in the
left image (the one with the red square around it, tool tipped with Delete last strip in the
Application). As you learnt in the previous paragraph, in fact, you are creating a dynamic panel on that wall; by using this button
you can remove the last strip you placed on that panel/wall
Change strips height, manually
If you need to change the strip height, you can click the button you see in the left image (the one
with the red square around it, tool tipped with View strips in the Application). You will open a mask
where to control the dynamic panel. For example, you can change the height of any strip currently
available in the panel, you can delete a strip, or you can even leave it empty (sometimes this is useful when you need to tile
just a section of the wall). Have a look at the Panel strips mask and play around with it.
A second (and quicker) way to change strip height is to use the context menu: in Navigation window, click the right mouse
button on the strip you want to modify, and select command Strip heightManual. Pick a graphic reference (in case you
have one) for the new height, or type the new value. In the same menu, you find the command that allows you to delete a
strip, create an empty (new) one, or even change strip grout.
Change strips height with tiles number
You can change the height of an available strip of a wall, by specifying the number of tiles you want to find in that strip.
In Navigation window, click the right mouse button on the strip you want to modify, and select command Strip
heightTiles number. The Application will let you specify the number of tiles you want to have in that strip, and as soon as you
change the value you’ll see the result in the wall in the background.
Save dynamic panel
In case you want to save the dynamic panel in the internal library, you can click the button you see
in the left image (the one with the red square around it, tool tipped with Save as panel in the
Application). By doing this you will find the panel in the Components window, so that next time
you need to tile the same way you just need to get to the panels section, and drag&drop it to the walls. This will lead you to
the same laying situation, saving a lot of clicks/time. Be careful of typing the correct information while saving the panel, as they
will be important when searching the panel you want/need in the Components window.
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Move strips up/down
In case you mislaid the strips on the wall, you can change their order directly from within the Navigation window. Click
the right mouse button on the strip you want to move, and select command Move strip up(down). This is a useful option
in order to change strips order once the wall has been completed. In the next image you can see that we have easily switched
the decors by using these commands several times since we’ve found the correct solution.
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Single wall with a single tile (solid pattern)
The same tiling concept you saw in paragraph Tile all walls with a single tile (Solid pattern) can be used with one wall only. In
case you want to tile 1 wall only, click the right mouse button on that wall, and select command Activate laying.
Note: if you do not see Activate laying command, probably you did not select TILES section in the Components window.
Once the wall has been activated, any drag&drop and strip operation will be related to that wall only. Moreover, by enabling
the single wall, Application will let you see the strips height directly on the screen, as you can see in the next image. Click right
mouse or + Esc keyboard button in order to stop working on that wall.
You can do something similar working in the Wall window. It is a 2D window where you can see any surface in front (see next
image). You can open the Wall window by double clicking the left mouse button on a wall in Layout window, or starting from
Navigation, where you can click the right mouse button over the wall and select command Modify tiling. If you right click on
the wall while in the Wall window, you can find the same commands in order to customize layout.
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Change strip origin and alignment
You can modify the alignment of each strip anytime you want. Click the right mouse on the strip you want to change, and select
command Modify strip origin. You can change the origin with the mouse (by aligning the new origin to existing snaps, such as
tiles, objects, corners, …) or typing the exact offset with the numeric fields (remember that you can switch between them using
Tab keyboard button). When typing it is recommended not to move the mouse, as moving it will cause the fields values to
change. Press Enter keyboard button when finished typing.
Using dynamic patterns
You saw, in the paragraph related to floor tiling, the power of dynamic patterns. Consider that you can use dynamic patterns
also while designing wall tiling (see next image). Refer to Cover the floor-Using dynamic patterns paragraph, earlier in this
chapter, in order to learn how to tile using dynamic patterns.
Tile a shower-box corner
When you are in the Navigation window, you can click the right mouse button over an angle in between adjacent walls. In the
context menu you will find the command Corner-Tile shower-box corner (if you can’t see it, it means that you did not click over
the corner). This will lead you to the mask you can see in the next page.
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Here you can decide which tile to apply to the tiled corner, as well as its size. Left and right areas ca be identical or different:
it’s up to you. Once you confirm this choice you will get back to the Navigation window and see the result. If something’s
wrong, you can easily UNDO ( Ctrl + Z ) and repeat the operation.
Vertical tiling
Vertical tiles can be placed in the project when you are in the Navigation window. Click the right mouse button on the wall you
want to refer to, and select command Vertical tiling. You will access the mask where to specify the size of the vertical area: you
can do it typing the area dimension, or specifying the number of tiles you want the area to include. Finally select the tile to be
placed in the vertical tiling (remember to check rotation if the tiles images are not oriented the right way)
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Tile an insert
You can draw square areas on the tiled floor or walls of the project, when you are in the Navigation window (or in Wall window
as well). Click the right mouse button on the wall you want to refer to, and select command Tiles layer. You will access the
mask where to specify the size of the square you want to add to the wall:
Finally you will locate the area on the wall, as you can see in the next image (the insert is the grey square rundd with a red
line, under the mirror).
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Advanced features
Tile a countertop
Sometimes you need to tile a step, a countertop, a small
wall, or whichever 3D object in the scene has a surface.
You can do that proceeding this way: open the Navigation
window, and move the point of view so that you can see the
face you want to tile. Open the Tiles section in the
components window, and search for the tile you want to
apply to that surface.
Click, in the Options panel, the Floor button (as you can see
in red square pointed out by letter A).
In the destination field, select Surface (as you can see in red
square pointed out by letter B).
Check, also, the grout size and color before applying the tile.
Now you are ready to drag the tile over the surface. Keep
the left mouse button pressed while you are moving the in
scene. You will see that the Application will highlight (in a
light and pale yellow) the surface you are moving the mouse
over. Drop the tile just when you are over the needed
surface. You’ll see that face covered with the tile you
selected. The same process can be done with dynamic
patterns too, in case you want to apply multiple formats patterns.
Change the existing grout colour
What about if you have not been paying attention to the grout color when you tiled floor and walls? You can change the grout
color even later on, in 2 different ways.
First option is to open the Materials section of the Components window while navigating the
room; select the Color typology, and choose the color you want to assign to the grout. As seen in
the previous paragraph, drag&drop the colored material to the surface the tiling refers to: it will
highlight in order to let you realize the destination before releasing (dropping).
The Application will then ask you if you want to apply that color just to the section you have
selected (Wall strip tiles), to all the similar strips in the other walls of the room (Room strip tiles),
to the entire wall (Total wall tiles), or wherever in the room (Total room tiles).
Notice that this procedure can be used just when the grout size is greater than zero. Moreover, you can also apply textured
materials to the grout, such as Masonry, Generic, Putty, ….. Try out and see the result zooming the Navigation view very near
the grout, and you’ll see the details of the material.
You have, also, the opportunity of changing the grout color using a free color from the WindowsTM palette. From the Navigation
window, click the right mouse button over the wall (surface) where you want to change
the grout color: select the command Modify tiling.
You will open a window where you can see the wall (surface) in 2D. Open the WALL
section of the Ribbon, and in the Wall group of commands click the Modify button.
Finally select Grout color command. The Application will ask you to specify the section
of the wall (surface) you want to change: click the left mouse over it, and decide the
color you want to use. Last option is to specify if you want to change the grout color of the tiled area you pointed out only, or
the grout color of the all room.
Note: this way of working will let you see the difference also if grout size is equal to 0; in this case, in fact, the Application draws
a thin line in the 2D (Modify tiling) window, so that blueprints for installers let them better understanding the way of laying
tiles.
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Rotate existing tiling
If you need to change the rotation of an existing tiling, you have to operate in the 2D (Modify tiling) window. From the
Navigation window, click the right mouse button over the wall (surface) where you want to rotate the tiling: select the
command Modify tiling.
You will open a window where you can see the wall (surface) in 2D. Click the right mouse button on the tiling you want to
orientate, and select command Change tiling direction. You’ll be able to align the existing tiles in a different direction both
using the left mouse button (quick but less accurate), or writing the angle you want to rotate with and press the Enter keyboard
button.
Note: don’t be mislead by the command available in the Ribbon, WALL section, Wall group, ModifyRotate tiling. That
command allows you to rotate areas that can be tiled (Refer to Tile an insert paragraph, earlier in this Chapter).
Switch view from Floor to Walls in 2D
When you are in the 2D (Modify tiling) window, you can easily change your view by moving the mouse on the border of the
current area. In the next image, in fact, you can see that if you move the mouse over a wall, a yellow area will appear; if you
click that area, the window will upgrade showing you the wall you have just selected. Same option can be used when you are
working on a wall, in order to move to the left or right one, or back to the floor. In this way you can change the operating area
very quickly while remaining in the 2D window.
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Introduction
Choose the engine
The Application allows you to choose which rendering engine to use among mental ray® or V-Ray. They are the most
used and professional engines in the world, and give you all the power to create stunning and totally realistic images.
If you are upgrading from a previous PRO version, you have mental ray® installed. If you have bought DomuS3D®
Pegasus PRO, you have V-Ray installed as the default rendering engine. In both situations you can optionally order and activate
the second engine. But in this case remember that you need to decide which engine to use when you create a new project, as
choosing the engine makes the Application setting up a different set of materials and effects that will be assigned to tiles and
objects. We warmly discourage you switching from an engine to the other, once you have already created and settled up the
project: graphic results you will achieve may be unpleasant.
As you have already seen in the introduction, in order to decide which engine to use go to the Application Properties mask,
select the command FileOptions, get to the Navigation and Rendering Tab and choose the needed engine. If the navigation
window is currently opened, some of the controls available in the Navigation and Rendering Tab may be disabled.
Get to the Navigation and Rendering Tab and choose the needed engine.
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If the navigation window is currently opened, some of the controls available in the Navigation and Rendering Tab may be
disabled.
Comparison between mental ray® and V-Ray
This comparison refers only to the engines included in DomuS3D®; it is not a generic comparison.
Feature description
Bump mapping
Reflection maps
Refraction maps
Displacement maps
Uses CPU
Uses GPU
Available in render manager
Automatic exposure algorithm
Real Time rendering
Distributed rendering
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Rendering by using V-Ray
Launch the rendering process
If you want to start the rendering process, open the navigation window, move the point of view in the needed
position, and select the command Full image available in the Navigation section of the Ribbon.
Even if V-Ray can find an automatic setup of the scene exposure, sometimes it may be necessary to try some
(small size) samples before launching the final process. For sample image we suggest not to use a high resolution and quality
setup, as you could face long time rendering.
If you have a look at the section named Image Quality, you see that there are 3
different quality levels (Low, Medium, High). The greater quality you ask the
Application, the longer it will take to render the image; so, at the beginning (if you
are not sure about illumination and materials setup) it is better to try some
samples using medium or low quality.
Illumination and exposure can be automatically adjusted by the Application: click the button Automatic.
You will open the rendering preview mask, where you can choose the exposure typology. Before proceeding, note that in this
mask you decide whether to create a rendered image (click OK), a Job (for Render Manager application) or a 360° Panorama.
Leave the Exposure control to Automatic, and click Generate Preview: Application will start calculating optimized parameters
and will give you a preview.
In order to create an automatic setup the Application needs to try some samples and calculate the illumination: for this reason
you will need to wait some time, depending on the complexity of the project and the power of your computer (it is the similar
approach used by digital cameras when you set the automatic exposure).
In the next images you can see that Application tries different illumination setups in order to find the appropriate one.
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Even if the Application tries to find out the best Exposure value, you have the control on it and can adjust later on as you need.
Switch type selector to Photographic if you are not expert in digital cameras; you can control the rendering result by changing
the parameters involved in the light passing through the lens: aperture of the lens (f-number), exposure time (shutter speed)
and ISO sensibility (film speed).
If you check the control Quick preview, render engine makes just 1 calculation for the illumination, taking the less time possible,
also in consideration of the size for the rendering. The preset is very important in order to quickly find correct setup for the
standard parameters in case of interiors/exteriors daylight/night-time.
Vignetting simulates the effect you have in real life related to luminosity leak ‘cause of the lens, especially in the perimetric
area and with maximum aperture of the camera. A 0 value disables the effect.
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If you set Saturation to 0, you get rid of the Color Bleeding effect, made by indirect illumination. In fact, in case of covering
materials with strong colors (such as red, blue, green, etc…) the objects in the scene usually suffers a color variation by the
light rebounding those coloured surfaces. If you want to have warmer images, you can increase this parameter.
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The White parameter allows you to specify which colour of the preview you want to be white. This is sometimes useful in case,
for example, you have sanitary-ware which is no more white (‘cause of indirect light, reflections, etc…) You can pick their colour
in order to let the engine consider them as white in the next rendering procedure.
Color mapping group allows you to adjust parts of the image that are dark (or bright) too much. You can choose among 2
different colour correction algorithms. Linear algorithm multiplies the colours of the final image referring to luminosity,
creating high contrast rendering where it is possible to find burnt areas. Exponential is more sophisticated and precise, and
applies different colour saturations depending on the available colours and their intensity. It is useful, as an example, to prevent
burnt areas near artificial lights. Dark and bright areas can be adjusted changing dark multiplier and bright multiplier
parameters.
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Next images refer to color (chromatic) adjustment examples, using both Color Mapping typologies. Image is dark in order to
enhance differences you have by changing Dark and Bright multipliers.
Linear
Exponential
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Close button allows you to close this preview mask saving the setup you have just found. As you’ll be back in the Rendering
Parameters mask you can start the rendering process (OK button) or get to the Advanced options.
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If you want to deepen your knowledge on the parameters available in the Advanced Options section, we suggest you to read
V-Ray official documentation.
Refer to online official documentation from ChaosGroup http://help.chaosgroup.com/vray/help/200R1/
V-Ray RT
V-Ray rendering engine allows you to render in different ways: using CPU (Central Processing Unit, that is to say the standard
processor available in any PC), GPU (Graphics processing unit, the processor of the graphic card(s) available in the PC).
Consider that GPUs are dramatically faster than CPUs. Moreover, modern hardware can even host more than 1 single graphic
card inside.
V-Ray RT (Real Time) allows you to decide whether to use the CPU or the GPU in order to create the rendering. Consider that,
as per today, the RT process is still under development and refinement; this means that we cannot guarantee that the RT image
quality will be the same as the standard engine. But it’s worth to try RT out in order to understand if the quality is good enough
for you; if it is, for sure you’ll wait less than with the standard engine (RT is not available in Render Manager,
Pegasus version)
In order to use V-Ray RT, open the navigation window, move the point of view to the needed position, then
get to the Navigation section of the Ribbon, and click the Dynamic image button.
You will get to the RT mask, where to adjust parameters and launch the process. First of all let’s have a look at the Engine type:
we discourage you to use CPU with RT (CPU is better used in the standard rendering process). The best choice is CUDA (if you
have a NVIDIA graphic card) or Open (for any other graphic card). Always remember to keep the graphic drivers up-to-date
when you use GPU rendering.
Choose the image resolution, and click OK; the Application will open the RT window and you will see the rendering process
inside. What’s nice in this way of working is that the rendering engine does not stop your design process: you can keep on
working within the project as you need. As soon as a modification takes place in the project (or if you change your point of
view), RT automatically starts again the rendering process. As the RT-rendering takes place in the GPU, your design speed is
not affected (as it relies on the CPU).
Note: at the time of writing tests have been made with NVIDIA graphic cards only. Contact Maticad if you need further
information on the V-Ray RT prototype.
In the next image you can see the V-Ray RT window while defining the rendered image.
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If you do not want RT to start again while moving in the scene, you can click this button
. Differently, every time you move
or change project , V-RayRT automatically starts again rendering the new point of view.
RT rendering image at the beginning is not well defined, but you will see that if you wait some time, image starts getting more
and more detailed. Of course the more you wait, the better the image will be.
After 10 secons
After 50 seconds
After 5 minutes
After 10 minutes
In order to make a comparison, here are the images you get on the same project/computer by using the classic V-Ray engine.
As you can see, using V-RayRT you can get a quicker idea of the rendering.
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After 10 seconds
After 50 seconds
After 5 minutes
After 10 minutes
If not stopped, RT rendering process could be infinite, as the engine keep on trying to get a better image.
When you are satisfied with the image (the image will be clean enough for you) you can click save the rendered image
by clicking this button .
Click this button in order to pause/start the rendering process (e.g. if you want to make more modifications and it is
useless to force your GPU).
Click this button in order to stop the RT rendering process.
Click this button to zoom the rendered image depending on the size of the container window .
The slider allows you to dynamically adjust exposition without starting again the rendering process.
Next images show a rendering example using V-Ray (left) and V-RayRT (right) after about 15 minutes processing:
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V-RayRT image can be edit with a software such as Photoshop in order to reduce/remove noise.
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How to manage lights
Scene illumination is one of the most important activities while setting up the project in order to achieve stunning images. A
rendering engine, in fact, is similar to a camera where you need to setup illumination information prior getting a photo.
In this paragraph you will learn how to manage lights and the related effects in order to increase V-Ray results.
V-Ray gives you four different kind of lights: natural light, (Sun and Environment), photometric light, IES lights.
Sun light (sun and sky)
V-Ray simulates sun and sky light thanks to the VRaySun and VRaySky parameters, which are strictly connected. For a deeper
knowledge of VRaySun and VRaySky, you can connect to the official reference from V-Ray manufacturer:
http://help.chaosgroup.com/vray/help/150SP1/vraysun_sky_param.htm
If you want to open the sun light mask, click on the Ribbon command Natural Light available in the Virtual
Navigation group. You can find it both in the Layout window and in the Navigation window (Navigation group).
In the next image you can see this mask.
Sun light section
Activate: this flag allows you to enable/disable the sun light. If disabled, the rendered image will be illuminated by the sky only,
which is an indirect illumination coming from the outside. We suggest you to disable the sun light only in case of an indoor room
without any hole/window; in this situation, in fact, sun light will never enter the room and affect the image, but it will keep slowing
down the rendering process as the engine will have to consider it too, even if useless. For this purpose, select the button Night
time pre-set, that sets up the needed effects for you.
Indeed, we warmly encourage you using the sun light as it enhances tiles and objects materials and surfaces so that the final
image will be better rather than if illuminated by artificial lights only. Sometimes, well … very often for medium and small
rooms, it is also possible not to place any artificial light, as the sun light will be enough. Keep in mind that expert designers are
used to create temporary hole(s) in some walls, which are not visible in the rendering, just in order to let the sun light entering
the scene and make the illumination. Indeed, if the room already contains a window or an opened door, you do not have to
create any additional hole as the sun light will enter the room and overcome the sky light.
Multiplier (0.1 - 10): this parameter gives you the idea of the light intensity. Default value is 1. You can change this parameter in
case you want to reduce/increase the sun light power. Try to change it slightly, and launch a small render sample in order to
understand if you have found the correct setup. (Do not change too many parameters at a time, otherwise it will be difficult to
understand which one is changing your rendering).
Scale (0.1 - 10): it is the dimension, the diameter that will represent to sun circle. The default value is 1. If you increase the value,
shadows will fade away more softly.
Invisible: if checked, sun is not visible in the scene as well as in reflections, even if its illumination effect remains.
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Soft shadows quality (0 - 50): this parameter affects the quality of the shadow’s blur. Upper values mean a higher quality, even if
rendering time will increase accordingly.
Turbidity: this parameter affects the atmospheric dust quantity. Turbidity affects the sky colour too, especially when sun light has
been disabled so that the global illumination is lighter; e.g., if value is more than 10, shadows made by the sun nearly disappear.
Low values will let you see a very clear and clean sky with a typical blue colour, and sun is sharped and well-defined like the one
you see in the mountains. High values turn the sky colour on yellow/orange, which is typical of metropolitan environments, so rich
of dust and pollution. Turbidity can vary in between 2,0 and 20,0.
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Ozone: this parameter affects the colour of the light made by the VRaySun. If value is nearly 0, sun light is warmer and colour gets
more yellow, while if you move around 1, light is ‘colder’ and colour gets more blue (sky-blue). This parameter does not affect the
scene in a very evident way.
Elevation (0 - 90): this value is given in degrees, and tells you about the
vertical height of the sun. In this image you can see the sun when at 45°: the
project is always placed in the centre of the simulation.
If you move the sun down to 0° you have a less intense illumination,
which is typical of dawn and sunset. 90° will give you strong light
coming from the top (ceiling) of the room, which is typical of noon.
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You can move the sun in the simulation pane by clicking over it (the yellow circle) with the left mouse button;
keep it pressed and move the sun where you need to get the illumination you’re searching for. Such a movement
affects both Elevation as well as Azimuth (see next).
Azimuth (-180, 180): this value is specified in degrees, and reveals the sun’s position in the
horizon. Again, use left mouse button as seen before, in order to change Elevation and Azimuth.
Environment
Environment section affects the indirect light coming from the sky. Let’s see it in detail:
Type: in this field you can choose whether to use sky colour rather than a custom colour for the
environment illumination. A sky colour (as seen before) will create a blue light. A custom one will make the scene being illuminated
from all directions by a light defined in the next 2 fields: colour and multiplier. The next images can give a clear idea of the result
you’ll get by changing those parameters.
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In the next images, you can see how in these circumstances the custom colour will be seen in the background too, unless you
decide to use a background image (refer to the Navigation chapter in order to learn how to apply background flat and spherical
images). In such a situation, custom colour affects the indirect light of the scene just in case Saturation is different than zero (in
the next images it’s been set to 0,7).
Day time and Night time pre-set buttons automatically setup parameters value in order to obtain a nice rendering in night time
(without any natural light), and daylight (with active sun and sky).
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Artificial lights
V-Ray uses photometric light.
Lights can be placed in the scene by clicking the right mouse button wherever in the layout window, and selecting the command
New light. In this way you can choose among 3 different types of light: bulb, spot, neon. Moreover, there are objects in the
components library that already integrate a light inside them.
The typology name to search for is Furniture – Spot lighting, in Maticad manufacturer.
They are not available in the standard installation DVD, but you can download them inside the Live! page, even if you have not
processed the (optional) download service. They are modern and classic lights containing photometric spots and neon. With
such objects you just need to drag and drop them in the scene, without taking care of the light setup.
Let’s try working with lights: open/create a project, place a light and open its properties section (double click the light over the
image or one of the lines, or click the right mouse button and choose the command Properties).
Advanced button allows you to open a
detailed section, where to find all
parameters involved in the rendering
process. Let’s have a look at them.
Photometric light: this light simulates the
behaviour of real lights, also affected by
or affecting other objects/effects.
Photometric lights are based on some
basic parameters: luminous flux,
luminance and light intensity. This set of
variables allows you to place more
detailed and real lights, for a better result
and rendered image. You can use one of
the Preset values in order to change light
intensity; they are real light available on
the market, and their power is expressed
in Watts. Note that different lights will
generate different illumination effects,
even with the same Watt power, Candela (cd) or Lumen (lm). The preview image will help you better understanding what’s the
selected light behaviour and shape.
Physical light: this type of light can be used only with mental ray®.
In physical lights you can use preset as seen in the paragraph above, but also IES light: IES lights are prepared and shared by the
manufacturer with the real features of the light. Manufacturer makes available a file with .ies extension, where the rendering
engine can find all details for the rendering process. If the standard lights irradiate merely wherever in the space (360°), IES lights
can provide the engine detailed information about the direction, intensity and decay in all directions. For this reason, using the
correct IES allows you to avoid any problem related to wrong light effects. As an example, the next images let you see the same
scene rendered with different IES lights. If you look at the shape of the light in the technical diagram, you can see the result in the
rendered image (also note that this is a closed room, hence no sun or sky light is entering the room).
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You can download new IES files from the manufacturers’ web site: save them in the …\DomuS3D2010\Lights folder in order
to see them in the Advanced mask of the light; in the next sections we’ll have a look at the controls available in this mask.
Multiplier (1 - 1000): this value will be multiplied with the intensity of the light; for this reason, we suggest you to change the
intensity of the light, rather than the multiplier.
% spot penumbra: this parameter is available just for spot lights. It gives you the option of customizing the amplitude of the shading
area. The percentage value is referred to the angle defined by the spot.
If you want objects illuminated by this light to create a soft shadow effect, light does not have to be punctual, but has to be
represented by an area (area lights). For this reason No effect is related to a punctual light, while rectangular, circular, spherical
or cylindrical refer to area lights and will create soft shadows.
The behaviour of area lights can be easily understood by looking the next images: the left one represents a punctual light, the
right one an area light.
A punctual light generates defined shadows only without
any penumbra
An area light generates a shadow with a customizable
penumbra
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If you decide to use IES files, Multiplier and % spot penumbra are automatically disabled. If you want to increase or decrease
the IES light intensity you need to enable the check named Custom intensity and change the intensity value by typing the
needed Lumen or Candela.
Soft Shadows (area lights): if No effect is enabled, light is punctual and creates just delimited shadows. If you enable a different
option, light becomes larger and starts creating soft shadows. If Visible is checked you will see the light in the rendered scene; if it
is not, you will see just the light effects. If the light you’re dealing with is a bulb, we suggest you to choose the spherical shape: by
changing Radius and Soft Shadow Quality you can reach the needed result. Default value for Soft Shadow Quality is 8: if you
increase this value (e.g. 16 or 32) the quality of the shadow will be better, even if the engine will take more time in order to
complete the process.
Punctual light - Delimited shadow
Area light - Soft shadow
If the light is a Spot Light, the area can be rectangular or circular (see next images). With the former, you will specify the height
and width, with the latter you will specify the radius. In this case too, you will physically see the light In the rendered image if
Visible is checked.
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Placing a neon in the scene means specifying 2 delimitation points as it is a linear light: those points define the orientation and
the length of the neon in space. Neon has to be configured as physical, visible light, with a cylindrical shape, where you can
decide intensity and radius of the cylinder.
In case of IES lights, information about the light, including the way to generate soft shadows, are included in the .ies file; you
can, indeed, adjust quality as the related parameter still remains enabled.
It is important to try out the lights and light effects you have seen in this chapter, as lights and illumination are of paramount
importance while setting up a stunning rendered image; for example and as an exercise, you can use a very simple project (in
order to reduce rendering time) and one light at a time in order to try out the effect that light gives to the scene.
Light made by holes and windows (Portal light)
Holes (and windows) you create in the walls usually produce light themselves: this is called Portal Light and allows you to
simulate the light coming from outside the room.
Holes and windows are settled in order to be Portal light as a default; this means that if you do not want the light to be
generated, you need to disable this behaviour. By double clicking the left mouse button on the hole/window (or by clicking the
right mouse button on it and selecting the command Properties) open the Properties window for that light.
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The rendering parameters for the light coming from a hole/aperture are not available in the hole/niche’s properties mask; you
can customize them in the Portal lights section of the general rendering parameters window (seen before), where you can
enable Portal lights by checking the On control. Before closing this mask, indeed, it’s important to check the Emit diffuse lighting
control, so that the Portal light will be available from this hole.
What follows is the description of the variables available in the Portal lights section of the Rendering parameters pane.
Intensity allows you to set the intensity of the light.
Subdivs allows you to set the quality of the light: low values, such as 4 or 8, produce some grain on surfaces but rendering will
be quicker. Higher values, such as 16, 24 or 32, solve this unpleasant effect but you’ll need to wait a bit longer.
Remember to disable Portal Light in case you are rendering a room by night.
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Materials and the rendering in V-Ray
Materials for objects and furnishing elements
The correct choice of materials (wood, metal, marble, etc…) to be assigned to 3D objects, together with the correct light setup,
are the basis in order to create a stunning image. If you are using objects downloaded through DomuS3D® Live! page with the
catalogues download service, materials and layers are already set up in the best way so that you do not have to take care of
anything more than placing them in the object.
Standard users normally do not manage materials, as they use objects from the standard library, or they assign new materials
choosing them among a predefined and well-formatted library in the components window; if you are one of them, you can
avoid reading this paragraph. But if you want to create new materials and textiles, or if you are loading your own 3D objects
and you need to ‘dress’ them, it is important to know how to modify the way colors and textures affect the rendering.
Even if V-Ray can render using mental ray® materials, the best quality can be reached by using V-Ray compatible materials,
which are slightly different; this is the appropriate way of working in order to use all the power and features of the engine, as
well as to maximize lights effects and control reflection and refraction. And, last but not least, even speed up the rendering
process.
When you choose V-Ray engine in the DomuS3D® Preferences (Options) prior creating a project, you are switching materials
section to use VRayMtl materials; in a few moments you will see that thanks to VRayMtl materials you can simulate and control
most of the natural effects that you want to reproduce in your scene.
Before proceeding, have a look at the materials already available in the library (components window on the left pane), and
especially the difference between wood, marble, glass, metal, etc. …
Let’s try to create your first material for V-Ray: in the Ribbon, click the Database section, go to the Element materials section,
and select the command New. You can also double click an existing material in the Components window in order to modify an
existing one: do this just in case you know what you want to do, as modification will be permanent in the database library.
You are now entering the mask where to decide the features of the new material; once completed the setup, by clicking OK
you will save the material in the internal database, and you will find it in the Materials component section. For this reason, it
is important to fill in the correct information in fields such as typology, manufacturer, name, description, etc. , as they will help
you later on searching again your material. It is very important typing correct text rather than just non-sense characters.
In case you will need to modify the material in the future, you can select the command RibbonDatabaseElement
materialsModify, selecting the material you want to change, but you can also double click with the left mouse button the
image of the material in the Components window. It is evident that we warmly encourage you using this second way, as it is
dramatically quicker than the first one.
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Type in the name of the new material, select the typology (Wood, Marble, Metal, etc..) it refers to. If you want to start from
an existing material and duplicate it in a new one, you can select the type it refers to (Arch&Design and MetallicPaint for mental
ray®, VRayMtl for V-Ray) and the typology; as you select one of the preset materials, the values in the right pane will be
changed copying the ones of the selected preset. Start from them in order to modify the material as you need (for example
duplicate a wood, keeping the same texture and changing the finish of the surface).
First parameter, Diffused Color, is related to the color of the material; this color will be used by the engine in case you will not
specify a texture for the material. Click with the left mouse button on the small coloured area if you want to change it. If,
instead of the color, you want to assign a texture (image) to the material (such as for wood, marble, textile, masonry, etc…)
check the Activate control available in the Diffuse Map section. Click the File field and you will see a … button, that allows
you to browse your computer and select the image you want to use for the material. If you want to delete the texture from
the material, uncheck the Activate control. In the next images you can see a material using a color (left) and a second one using
a texture (right).
Rughness allows you to simulate dusty surfaces. The next images allows you to see the difference of the shadow, with different
Roughness values.
Following parameters are related to reflection and refraction (transparency) effects. Reflection and refraction are physic
reactions when a beam of light interacts with any material. When the energy of the light reaches the surface of the material, a
part of it is retained by the material itself, a part of is reflected, and a part of it is transmitted. Reflection can be specular (that’s
to say proceeding in one direction only), blurred (proceeds in a cone centred in the specular reflection), or diffused (proceeds
in many directions).
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Thanks to Reflection Color you can control reflection quantity: the brighter this color, the stronger the reflection. Black means
that you do not have any reflection.
In the following images you can see the difference you get in reflection quantity as well as the Diffuse color behaviour in case
you change the Reflection Color. At the beginning (left) you see the real color of the sphere, but by increasing the RGB value
the sphere color becomes less visible and the reflection of the material is the only visible effect.
If you do not want the Reflection to be uniform on the material, you can control it by using a dedicated Map; enable the Active
control in the Reflection Map group, click the File field, and again browse for the map to be used (We’ll take care of maps later
on in this chapter).
In the example we will use a reflection map made by a collection of black and white squares. You will quickly understand that
white map means totally reflecting, black map means no reflection (Of course the map can contain grey scale levels in order to
distribute reflection in a softer way). Look at the next image in order to see the result of such a map.
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If you want to have blurred reflections you need to control the Reflection glossiness parameter. 100 means a strong reflection,
typical of chrome materials, while getting to zero makes the material glossier and increase the time for rendering.
The grain you see in the reflection can be reduced by changing the Glossiness quality parameter, with which you can decide
the maximum number of samples used for the glossiness calculation. Higher values mean more calculations and slower
rendering process. Low values mean a glossy and less defined reflection. For most of the materials the suggested value is 16.
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If you check on the Fresnel reflections parameter, reflection of such a material will depend on the angle you are looking the
object at. The real world out there tells you that all materials have Fresnel reflections: generally speaking, in fact, you have
weak reflections if surface is perpendicular to the angle of view, and become more evident if the surface gets parallel to the
field of view. By changing the Fresnel IOR parameter (Index of Reflection) you can control the intensity (quantity) of the
reflection by that material. We suggest you to use a IOR value not lower than 1.01; lower values are not physically correct if
you want to simulate real materials. Higher values will increase reflection made by the object.
The Refraction parameters group allows you to customize the transparency of the material. Refraction color lets you control
the refraction quantity. If it is white, material is totally transparent. If it gets to the black, transparency disappears. In the
following images materials do not have any reflection, so that it is possible to better evaluate transparency.
If you change Refraction color from black to white, material becomes more transparent and Diffuse color gradually vanish. If
you use a real color (and not a grey-scale one) material will assume that color too together with transparency; in this case
Refraction color is combined with Diffuse color.
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Same as for reflection, refraction too allows you to use a map in order to define which part of the material has to be
transparent. You already know that you need to check the Activate control of the Refraction Map group to be able to select
the file for the map. Following image shows a material applied on a glass. The black flowers will not be transparent, while the
white area lets the object behave like a glass.
It is possible to use a coloured refection map, in order to simulate multi-coloured glasses, as you can see in the next image.
By changing the Refraction Glossiness parameter you can control the transparency opacity. 100 means a total refraction,
without any opacity. Lower values allow you to obtain opaque materials, typical of frosted glass (see next images).
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Glossiness Quality allows you to reduce the noise generated by the opacity. Low values mean less defined glossiness. Suggested
value for most of materials is 16, even if the Application default is 8 as a compromise between good quality and quick rendering
processes. If you increase Glossiness Quality, in fact, rendering process takes longer time.
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Every material in real life has a proper Index of refraction (IOR), which describes the way light bends when crossing the material
surface. This index gets higher if material density is higher. A value of 1.0 means that light will not change direction (air’s IOR
is little more than 1, water is about 1.33, glasses usually are in between 1.40 and 1.70 depending on their dispersion quantity).
Following images let you see the way object deformation varies (orange line) depending on the IOR we’ve assigned to the glass.
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Fog color parameter allows you to control the attenuation of light as it passes through the material, as you can see in the
images. This option allows to simulate the fact that thick objects look less transparent than thin objects. Note that the effect
of the fog color depends on the absolute size of the objects and is therefore scene-dependent. The fog color also determines
the look of the object when using translucency.
In real life, in fact, thin objects are more transparent than thick objects. As you can imagine, grey-scale color do not affect the
color but just the transparency effect, while RGB colors change the color of the object too. In these images you can see the
way Fog Color affects the material, provided that Diffuse Color and Reflection Color have not been modified (set to black).
Fog Multiplier is related to the strength of the fog effect. Smaller values reduce the effect of the fog, making the material more
transparent. Larger values increase the fog effect, making the material more opaque. In more precise terms, this is the inverse
of the distance at which a ray inside the object is attenuated with an amount equal to the Fog color. In the previous examples
Fog Multiplier was fixed and = 1.0. In the following ones you can see a different Multiplier (while Fog Color is fixed and set to
blue).
Values less than 1 reduce Fog color intensity, while more than 1 increase it.
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In the next example you can realize that the best result in order to color a glass is achieved by using Fog color instead of
Refraction color.
By activating Affect Shadows, you will cause the material to cast transparent shadows, depending on the refraction color and
the fog color. This only works with V-Ray shadows and lights. Refraction color affects shadow color as well as intensity.
If you activate Translucency (also called sub-surface scattering) you can simulate those materials that diffuse light even inside
themselves. Translucency calculation is directly related to refraction; in fact, refraction must be enabled for this effect to be
visible. In the next images the object has been illuminated from the back side by a photometric light, which is also the only
light in the scene. Here is the list of the material effects.
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As you can see, by activating Translucency it is like if the object is illuminated from inside. In order to obtain good Translucency
results, you also need to adjust Refraction Glossiness, as it helps the material being more or less polished. We suggest you to
use values in between 10 and 50.
One more variable involved in Translucency is Fog color, as it helps defining both the colors of the material and of translucency
depending on the refraction intensity. Indeed, if material isn’t totally transparent, color is partially defined by the Diffuse Color.
If you change Fog multiplier, translucency is less or more saturated so that you can make the color of the material clearer or
darker. In the next images we have set the material a Reflection Glossiness = 30.
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By changing Translucency multiplier it is possible to multiply the intensity of the light being diffused from within the object
without any modification of the light itself.
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Bump Maps
Bump Maps group allows you to assign an image (called bump, usually grey-scale based), that gives the material some
roughness (rugosity). Bright areas will emboss (emphasize) that part of the surface, dark areas will ‘dig’ the material, giving the
impression of a cavity on the surface. As you already know, if you want to assign a bump, you have to activate the bump field,
and browse for the file to be assigned to the material. Multiplier allows you to adjust the intensity of the map. Values greater
than zero increase the high surfaces made by the white (bright) part of the map, less than zero increase the groove effect made
by the black (dark). If you type 0, bump will not be applied.
Note that the bump map involves also the reflection intensity, and if the material has some roughness the reflected light will
have sum blur components.
Stones: the Displacement map
If you need more realism with materials whose surface is not regular, such as stone, sometimes it is useful to use Displacement
Map (currently available in V-Ray only): Displacement Map allows you to bring a flat surface to life even without using a complex
3D model for that material. The following image has been rendered using the Displacement Map.
By controlling Length and Shift you can adjust the effect: the former adjusts the extension of the displacement to be applied
to the bright (white) areas of the map. The latter involves the dark (black) areas lowing down the surface. It is a similar
behaviour of the Bump Map, with the great difference that Displacement Map really creates a 3D emboss in the scene. Such
emboss will affect reflections and shadows too.
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Next image has been calculated using a Displacement Map with Length = 10.0, and Shift = -5.0. In fact, displacement first moves
in front the bright areas (+10), then engraves the dark ones (-5). The result is that the grey part is the real surface of the
material, the white comes out, and the black in.
All maps we have seen in the previous paragraphs can be assigned to tiles too (the black and white behave the same way),
even including the off shaded images (files with @). Following examples show you the way Length of displacement maps affects
an off shaded tile.
Diffuse maps
Related displacement maps
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In the Advanced section, there is a Displacement group, containing parameters and effects which are the same as the
VRayDisplacementMod available in 3ds max.
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Following images show you the difference between Bump and Displacement Map.
Materials Advanced parameters
The reflective materials tend to generate specular highlights or rough spots. The more a material is reflective, the more you
can see the reflections of the light on the object the material has been assigned to. By changing Reflection Color and Reflection
Glossiness you can obtain all the real reflection effects you have in real life. As you have seen before, by lowing down Reflection
Glossiness you can see wider extensions highlight. If you want to reduce the highlight from a reflective surface, you just need
to disable Highlight Glossiness Lock and specify a value for Highlight Glossiness, considering that low values will generate glossy
highlights. 1 will totally delete highlight effect.
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BRDF (Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function) type (0 - Phong, 1 – Blinn, 2 - Ward) is a function that describes the way
the light will be reflected by the object the material is assigned to. It is a way of deciding the algorithm you want to use for
highlights and to decide the shape you want them to have on the object. Phong model simulates very well indirect illumination.
With Blinn and Ward the points of specular lighting appear more blurred.
By modifying Anisotropy it is possible to adjust the highlight dimension and shape (circular or elliptical). 1.0, 0.0 and -1.0 means
having isotropic surfaces (isotropic = same and regular distribution of the reflection, while an anisotropic material reflects
differently depending on the angle you are looking at it), while different values change the highlights simulating brushed
surfaces.
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Anisotropy rotation defines the rotation angle of the highlights.
Materials in projects
In the paragraphs above you saw how to create new materials and save them in the internal database. In this way the material
will be stored and visible later on for further design by getting to the Components window; if you are working in a Client/Server,
all designers will see the new material too. If you do not want this to happen, you can create a new material just located in the
project. When the project is opened, in the layout window, select the command Materials available in the File
section of the Ribbon: you will access the list of the materials currently available in the project. If you modify or
create a new material starting from here, you are not affecting the materials in database, but just the ones in the
project.
In case you change your mind later on and want to add the new material to the Application library (database), you can do it by
selecting the material and clicking the button Add to database.
Note: if you click this button referring to a martial already existing in database, you will update the database version of the
material with the new specifications made inside the project.
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Rendering by using mental ray®
Launch the rendering process
If you want to start the rendering process, open the navigation window, move the point of view in the needed
position, and select the command Full image available in the Navigation section of the Ribbon.
Sometimes it may be necessary to try some (small size) samples before launching the final process. As a
sample image we suggest not to use a high resolution and quality setup, as you could face long time rendering.
If you have a look at the section named Image Quality, you see that there are 3
different quality levels (Low, Medium, High). The greater quality you ask the
Application, the longer it will take to render the image; so, at the beginning (if you
are not sure about illumination and materials setup) it is better to try some
samples using medium or low quality.
In the Rendering Parameters mask you can setup the rendering options you need. Multiplier field allows you to indicate the
resolution of the rendered image depending on the current resolution of the scene: aspect ratio will remain the same, and you
can easily increase (for print options) or decrease (for sample purposes) the final image. Pixel Resolution field on the right will
show you the final resolution value for the rendered image.
Low quality procedure allows you to render in just one step, with less accuracy regarding lights setup: this is because in this
procedure the system does not use Indirect illumination, which is very important in order to get a real scene, something very
like a photograph. While trying to setup the rendering, then, low quality is useful if you need to understand if objects and tiles
have been correctly placed. It is NOT useful and correct while setting up lights, as the result would not be real. For lights, we
suggest you to step at least to medium quality, which is the right compromise between time to render the sample, and result
you get. Finally, you’ll launch high quality rendering once everything is correct in the scene, and you want to start creating the
final, effective image. You know, at this stage, that time to render will take longer, depending on the computer’s hardware and
the complexity of the project.
Even if you select one of the preset quality settings you can modify, anyway, its properties: really this can be useful in order to
change the setup just a bit, living the image the effects you want to get to.
Here’s a list of available properties you can work with (available in the mask while selecting Photographic button).
Exposure control section allows you to operate on typical values generally used by photographers:
exposure, in fact, talks about the quantity of light arriving to the film through a camera, in a given time.
If you know how to manually use a camera, you also will probably understand at a glance what we’re
talking about; we will introduce, anyway, all this parameters in order to explain the way they affect the
final rendering. It’ll be easy to understand what’s going on, also thanks to a dynamic preview button
that allows you to immediately have a small preview of the scene even without render it all.
We therefore recommend to use this setting which allows you to refine the correct "exposure"
assessments. In this way the scene can be more or less illuminated, more or less contrasted, according
to your needs.
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When you click over Photographic button, you open the Rendering Preview
mask, where you can interact with each photographic effect and see the
scene preview clicking on button “Generate preview”.
First preview generation will take a bit more time than the following ones:
after first generation the button text changes, in fact, to “Update”: Updating
preview is quite immediate, so it is very useful to use such method in order
to change values available in the Exposure control section, and see how they
affect the rendering of the scene. You can choose among 3 different preview
resolutions, as you can see in this image. Here’s a list of the parameters you
can work with, together with their explanation:
Exposure value: in the photography exposure
adjustment is aimed at obtaining an accurate
representation, neither too light (overexposed) nor
too dark (underexposed). The adjustment
takes place on three interacting parameters such as
the aperture, the time during which the
camera shutter remains open to allow light to reach
the film or the sensor, and finally the ISO
sensitivity of the film. A proper calibration of these interrelated parameters lets the scene have an adequate representation.
The value, the rendering engine provides the user, represents the synthesis of these three parameters. It is
therefore the most important instrument to calibrate the image quality to be generated in a simple and effective
way. By clicking on the numeric field some arrows will appear enabling you to increase or decrease the numeric
value contained therein. At any induced variation the preview image is updated in real time, thus making easier to find the
best . You can also type the numeric value in the field and in this way you could insert values with decimal precision.
Overexposed areas: allows you to manage the contrast between overexposed areas (strong light) in the image. If it is less than
1 allows you to weak “burn” portions of the image, if any. Control is disabled if value is 1, differently if 0 you have maximum
reduction.Shadows: controls darker areas level. If you decrease this value you will light darker portions of the image. Interval
varies among 0.0 and 1.0.
Vignetting: is the photographic effect in order to have less
you’re disabling this effect.
light at the borders of the image. If set to 0
Saturation: saturation is the intensity referred to a peculiar
tough; lowing down saturation, color becomes weak and
saturation, color becomes really grey. Default is 1.
color. A saturated color is very bright and
seems to get grey. If you use the minimum for
White: white balancing value. Standard value is RGB 255;255;255, real white. If you use a different white you get a different
chromatic image.
Gamma: gamma correction is a non linear operation used in order to encode video luminescence. Default value is 1. Lowing
down this value, image will become darker and more contrast-based.
If you use Close button you confirm modifications (if any) and close this mask in order to get back to Rendering parameters
mask.
Options
In Rendering parameters mask you can find Options area, where you can specify if and where you want to save the image you’ll
render (Save option) as well as decide whether or not you want to switch off the computer at the end of the rendering process
(useful while rendering at night). When the system saves image file as per your request, a. log file will be saved too in the same
directory, containing all technical information regarding the foresaid procedure (parameters and options you used, time for
rendering, etc.). It can be useful to save such log file together with your image, in order to recall the parameters you used if, in
the next future, you’ll need to do again something similar.
Advanced options
If you click “Show advanced options” button you can see advanced parameters. Here’s a list of them.
General
Antialiasing: reduces aliasing effect (lines
images, even if time to
fragmentation) in order to create really better
render will increase a lot.
Contrast: together with
generating
the
0,02) you have a better
value
ONLY
when
antialiasing, regulates samples number while
rendered image; if you decrease this value (i.e.
image quality. We suggest you to change this
antialiasing effect is not enough.
Num. Riflections: maximum bounces on reflecting areas of the scene, used by ray tracing engine.
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Num. Refractions: similar as before, in this case you define maximum transparent surfaces among which ray light can pass.
You can increase this value (as well as the previous one) if you have more transparent surfaces, also considering glass
geometry:
If glass is made of a single layer, you need to
use no more than 2 refractions
If glass is made of 2 layers, you need to use 4
refractions
Num. max bounces: maximum total bounces made by ray lights considering the previous 2 parameters.
Indirect illumination
Indirect illumination represents light diffused by existing objects in the scene.
Activate: enables/disables diffused light in the scene (very similar to “Final Gather” feature in 3ds Max). When enabled
rendering procedure is made of 2 steps: first one, application calculates indirect light, which will be applied in the second,
final step. When you select low quality image in the rendering mask, this option is automatically disabled (enabled in
medium/high quality).
Point density: A multiplier for the density of final gather points. Increasing this value increases the density (and thus the
quantity) of final gather points in the image. The points will therefore be closer together and more numerous. This
parameter is useful for solving geometry problems; for example, near edges or corners.
Rays per point: Sets how many rays are used to compute indirect illumination in a final gather. Increasing this value makes
global illumination less noisy, but also increases rendering time.
Interpolated points: by this parameter the rendering algorithm generation takes into account areas that the discretization
points of the light map do not manage. In order to do this, an interpolation (i.e. averaging) within the range of a discrete
set of known data points is performed. When it happens that not justified halos may be seen in the image, you can correct
and improve these abnormalities by increasing the parameter value. It is a good method to intervene on this parameter in
order to try to improve some image details without having to do that in processing time.
Num. bounces: Sets the number of times rendering engine calculates diffuse light bounces for each diffuse ray. Like
Maximum Reflections and Maximum Refractions, this value is subject to the restriction of Max Depth. If you set Diffuse
Bounces higher than Max Depth, the latter setting is automatically raised to the Diffuse Bounces value.
Photons: is the same as using “Global Illumination” in 3ds Max. If you choose this option you decide to use an additional
indirect illumination method.
Note: when photons check is enabled, Num. bounces will be ignored.
Photon density: Sets how many photons are used to compute the intensity of the global illumination. Increasing this value
makes global illumination less noisy but also more blurry. Decreasing this value makes global illumination more noisy but
less blurry. The larger the Samples value, the greater the rendering time.
Advanced
Log: if it is enabled application will create a log
file could be useful also in order to send Maticad
will be able to understand the way you created
file containing all details of the rendering. This
support team the image + log, so that the team
the image.
FG map prerender: if enabled application will
scene at a lower resolution, in order to get
generate an indirect illumination map for the
quicker renderings.
FG map %: is the indirect light map quality (Final Gather), meant on the percentage of the image dimension. 25% probably
is the best compromise between quality and time to render. This value affects the first rendering step: low values allow
you to have a quicker first step, but getting less information regarding diffuse light in the points of the scene.
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Portal lights: allows you to enable/disable diffused light generation property. Doors, windows, holes all around walls will
become a sort of natural light emitters towards inside the room. This is a very good option in order to illuminate the scene
with only natural light, and without any artificial light. The former light, in fact, is really better than the latter, as you have
in real life too.
Portal l. multiplier: allows you to manage diffuse light intensity, referred to portal lights.
Portal l. samples: allows you to manage light quality, referred to portal light.
Portal l. white: if enabled, portal lights will be emitting white light.
Filter: this parameter allows you to choose between 3 different antialiasing filter typologies, to be applied to the image in
order
to
reduce segmentation effects as well as Moire effects.
Generally
speaking, this filter allows you to apply a sort of blur
where you
have strong chromatic variations along curves or
diagonal
lines.
1: default value,
referred to Box Blur: simplest filter, hence the
quicker while rendering the scene;
1-Box
2-Gauss
3-Mitchell
is
2: referred to Gaussian Blur: is a filter which
video.
optimizes the image for a better visualization on
3: referred to Mitchell-Netravali Blur: this filter
paper printouts.
optimizes image for a better visualization on
Example of Moire effect
Referring to Portal lights parameter, please
remember that, once enabled, every aperture
(door, window, hole…) can be enabled/disabled too. So you can decide whether or not all the apertures/openings of the scene
will emit light or just a few of them. In order to decide about their behavior, double click on the aperture, or right click and
select Properties. Once inside the properties mask, you can enable/disable the related control, which is called Emit diffuse
lighting, as you can see in this image.
Lights management
Lights and illumination are so important when you record a movie in real life; the same importance have lights when you render
images of your projects. In this section of the manual, we’ll see tips and tricks regarding the way of using lights, the features
they have, how their properties reflect to the rendered image.
Natural light (sun light)
This light is available just within the advanced rendering engine. It allows you to simulate sun light, creating images shot in the
morning, afternoon, evening, noon. This is possible thanks to a couple of photometric lights:
Sun light, you really place the sun in the scene, somewhere;
Sky light, indirect, diffused light you have tanks to the presence of the atmosphere.
Even if you can enable those components one at a time, our suggestion is to combine them both, in order to have a more
realistic light in the room.
Inside the Virtual 3d ribbon group of Layout window select the command Lights  Natural light. You will open
the following mask, containing all effects regarding those lights.
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Fields called “Activate” and “Active” allow you to enable/disable the photometric light they refer to. We suggest you to disable
those lights only if you have really closed rooms (without any hole in the walls, any window or opened door); in this case, in
fact, they would not affect the rendering (as there is no space where to get inside the room) but they’d still force the application
to consider them while running the rendering engine, which makes you waiting a longer time.
Anyway, 100% closed rooms are very unusual, hence we do strongly suggest you to use these lights: remember to enable them,
and to provide them ‘ways’ to get inside: windows are ok, doors are ok if they are opened. Sometimes you can even ‘hole’ the
wall just for rendering purposes, allowing the engine to use the sky/sun light effect: you’ll see how warmer it is instead of
‘artificial’ lights. Even items surfaces, combined with materials (we’ll see them later on this book) give more realistic results if
twinned with photometric lights.
That’s why it is very common for graphic designers to create a ‘hole’ in the room (place it in one of the walls you’ll not see in
the rendering) and even if you already have doors and windows, so that you will enhance the effect made by the diffuse
(photometric) light.
In these images you can see different parameters setup using photometric lights. In some cases sky light (which is, of course,
blue based) is very evident, as we’ve increased its typical values for demonstration purposes.
Sun light
Multiplier (0.1-10): it is the level (intensity) of the light: 1 by default. Increase/decrease it in order to have a brighter/darker scene.
We suggest you to have some practice on it just having simple rooms and small renderings, in order to better understand how to
use it.
Shadow softness (0.1-10): refers to the dimension of the area where the shadows decreases to zero: 1 by default. Higher values
make shadows more soft; lower values make shadows more tough.
Soft shadow quality (0-50): refers to the softness quality. A higher value means a better quality of softness, even if the price to
pay, then, is more time to render.
Elevation (0-90): this value has to be provided in degrees, referring to the vertical position of the sun at noon. In this image you
can see the sun placed at 45°.
This simulation represents the sky on your head, where the project is placed right in the middle of given space. If you move
the sun down (nearer 0°)
you have a lower intensity, which is typical
of the sunset/sunrise. Sun
at 90° means you are at noon, when the
intensity/illumination is the
maximum possible.
You can modify sun
elevation by Left clicking the mouse over
the yellow circle; keep the
mouse pressed and move it in the new
position. Cursor movement
changes, at the same time, Elevation and
Azimuth.
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Azimuth (-180,180): this value has to be
where the sun is referring to the horizontal
the mouse over the yellow circle; keep the
Cursor movement changes, at the same
provided in degrees, and tells the application
line. You can modify this value by Left clicking
mouse pressed and move it in the new position.
time, Azimuth and Elevation.
Photons (1.000-1.000.000): this value tells
the application how many light particles (so
called, photons) will be emitted by the sun.
The higher number for them, the more lightbounces between objects you will find inside
the room (the higher will be the rendering time);
this effect makes the image more ‘realistic’
considering the sun illumination in real life.
This is, indeed, also the effect we
suggest you to enhance (increasing photons
number) in case you have dark sections in your image, cause of arches, niches, objects, corners... which hide the other light
sources you have in the project.
This sequence shows you how photons affect the final rendering: from left to right you can see that, increasing photons
you discard the ugly dark-shadowed corners, and even if the shadow will still remain in the image (right) the way objects
create shadows is more realistic, fluid, and gradual.
Sky
When it’s been enabled you will see a blue area in
section in the sky (provided that the point of view
the rendering scene, as well as a round, bright
intersects the sun).
Multiplier (0.1-10): this value allows you to specify
the intensity of sky-light. Default value is 1.
Horizon height (-10; 10): this value allows you to
than zero) the height of the horizon light. If you set
the grey/brown color which refers to the ground.
move upper (greater than zero) or lower (less
-10, you will see just the sky (blue) and no more
Horizon blur (0-10): this is a reference in order to
decide how to step from the brown (earth)
area to the blue (sky) one. Low values mean tough change (strong division); high values mean a foggy horizon area, typical of hot
days.
Horizon blur: 0,10
Horizon blur: 0,50
Sun disk
Intensity (0.1-10): it is the intensity of the light used to simulate the sun. 1 is the default value; if you increase the value you’ll see
a brighter sun disk.
Scale (0.1-10): it is the sun ‘dimension’, that’s to say the radius of the sun disk. Default value is 4.
Glow (0.1-10): allows you to define the blur area all around the sun disk. Default value is 1. Blur area can be increased just
increasing the value of this field.
Default button, in the previous mask, allows you to restore ALL foresaid values to their standard.
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Artificial lights
Along with traditional artificial light sources consisting of an omni-directional light (bulb) and a spot lamp, a new set of light
sources and parameters - designed specifically to provide truly realistic lighting effects - was introduced to the exclusive use of
an advanced rendering engine. Physic lights and photometric lights are two different kinds
of lights customized for an advanced rendering engine. Among the artificial lights we
recommend you to use photometric lights for lamps and spot lamps (actually, this is the
program standard setting when a new light is created/inserted); as to neon light, you
should select the physic light type.
In addition to the traditional method to insert a new light in the project, among the various
pieces of furniture a new Furniture - Lamps with Light type has been prepared. It is
available online to those possessing active download fees: it is a set of lamps and
chandeliers incorporating the light source (bulb or neon). As to these elements, it is
enough to focus on their environment position (just like all the other pieces of furniture). A properly configured light source
has already been installed there.
Advanced button available in the light properties window, allows you to access a new mask where you can find further (and
new) details to work onto. (please, remember that such properties are referred just to lights used within the advanced
rendering engine projects).
Basic Light is the easiest type of light source commonly used with the standard rendering engine. We recommend to use it if an
advanced engine is available.
Physical Light: if compared with basic light, the physical light gives a high standard of realism, especially when the light faints and
fades as you move away from the source. From a physics standpoint (optics), by activating this option, the fading occurs in
proportion to the square of the distance, i.e. with a more realistic accelerated progression, whereas on basic light the fading takes
a linear form, i.e. more gradual and steady. We recommend you to enable this option whenever you want to use a neon light. For
other types of lighting, we recommend the use of photometric lighting which represents a qualitatively higher level and closer to
reality.
Base Light
Physical Light
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Photometric light: several are the theories describing the light behaviour. Photometry faces the issue by taking into account many
different aspects, among them the psychophysical aspects of eyes and human brains while perceiving light. This type of lighting
attempts to provide something similar to the perceived reality: simulation is based on four values: the light flux, lighting, luminance
and light intensity. In general, you can say that the complexity of the photometric light is much more complex than the previous
two mentioned above, where the level of details, accuracy and realism is higher. You can give the light the value you can find
within the Preset menu: it contains a set of light bulbs commercially easy to find and whose intensity is expressed in Watts. On
equal Watt power supplied you may notice that different types of light bulbs can generate different lighting effects: to substantiate
this, we can say that on equal Watt power supplied, values may vary, by using other units such as candles or lumens.
Actually, there is no match among these three units of measurement, as they are not homogeneous: Watt is the unit of
measurement of power, Candle is the unit of measurement of luminous intensity, whereas the lumen is the unit of
measurement of luminous flux.
Actually, there is no match among these three units of measurement, as
they are not homogeneous: Watt is the unit of measurement of power,
Candle is the unit of measurement of luminous intensity, whereas the
lumen is the unit of measurement of luminous flux. A further option is
available. It is an alternative to the Preset choice, that is the IES lights: for
these bulbs manufacturers release specific files (.ies) that describe widely
the irradiation phenomena. Compared to other types of bulbs, which
radiate spherically 360 degrees in every direction, these light bulbs are
regulated as to their fluxes and intensities that may vary along each
direction. By choosing the right light source, that is for example bulbs that
do not radiate upward, you may solve the problem of halos on the ceiling.
In the following examples you can see four types IES lights.
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You can freely download IES files from the manufacturers’ sites. In order to use the file in the program, just paste the downloaded
file in the folder ... \DomuS3D2010\Lights
Multiplier (1 - 1000): It shows the intensity of the light emission. This is the only parameter on which you can operate in order to
increase or decrease the brightness of a light source as to basic and physical light. As to photometric lights this parameter is still
on but it is not the only one: the Intensity field may be also used
Photons (0-1.000.000): you have already seen the meaning of photons while talking about the sun light (see also related
paragraph). Here the same concept is applied to the artificial light you’re considering. Default value is 100.000. If you increase this
value you’ll get a more consistent light beam, having a brighter scene together with homogeneous illumination: of course you’ll
pay this quality waiting more time for the final rendering. The application, in fact, needs to calculate path (inside the project’s
scene) and bounces for each of the photons of the light, in order to 100% simulate real light.
% spot penumbra: this value is meant only for spot lights. Allows you to configure a soft faint zone placed at the border of the
bright light. Percentage is meant referring to the angle you have specified for the spot light.
If you want, indeed, a soft light effect (that’s to say a light creating a soft shadow while encountering objects), you do not have
to specify No effect (as this would make the light as a single point); you have, indeed, to give a ‘shape’ (rectangular, spherical,
cylinder…) to the light in the Soft Shadows section.
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The following images will be able to show you the difference far more than the previous description:
A ‘point’ light can
generate just linear
shadows
Area lights can create
a real shadow (penumbra)
at the border of the light itself
‘Soft’ shadows (area lights): if No effect is enabled, you have a point light. Once you disable it, you’re creating an area light, which
is able to create more realistic shadows. If you enable ‘Visible’ flag you will see the light emitter too, otherwise you will see just
the light beam. If you are processing an electric bulb, we suggest you to choose the spherical shape, where you can specify its
radius and the quality referred to the soft shadows (quality, in this case, means how detailed you want the shadows to be seen.
More detailed = more time for the image to be rendered). Default value is 8: we suggest to switch from 16 to 32 if you want even
more quality, always keeping in mind the time you will have to wait for it.
Point light
Linear shadow
Area light
Soft shadow
If the light you are processing is a spot light, its shape can also be rectangular, specifying its width and depth, as well as
circular, specifying its radius.
In order to place neon lights in the layout, you need to specify a couple of points where the light starts from and ends to
(basically the length of the neon). Neon light has to be configured as a physical light, visible, cylinder-shaped, and you need to
specify its intensity and radius.
We suggest you to try using all those lights: the experience you’ll get using them and changing their properties along your
design activities, in order to test them and feel their behavior, will let you improving more and more your images realism.
During the first steps in lights-learning, we also suggest you to use one single light at a time (if possible) so that it’ll be easier
for you to see the difference while changing properties, and also in order to minimize the time you will need for the rendering.
Light diffused by doors and windows (Portal light)
Doors and windows of the project can be light emitters as well as physical lights: this is why they are called Portal light. In case
you have placed external lights (sun and/or sky), those lights will be able to enter the room through doors and windows; and,
really, such lights are far more ‘realistic’ than artificial lights.
You can enable/disable such property (which is enabled by default) by double clicking the left mouse button over the
door/window or right clicking and then selecting properties; in properties mask enable check called Emit diffuse lighting.
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Managing materials, textures and effects
Materials for objects and furnishing elements
Materials and textures (hardwood, metal, marble, etc.) can be very effective when correctly applied over the objects and
furnishing elements layers; they are as important as the lights we talked about in the previous section.
DomuS3D® involves the use of materials such as ARCH&DESIGN, that is an advanced material that can provide realism to the
scene.
You can use predefined setups in order to be able to quickly create new materials such as wood, glass, metal, steel, etc… With
such materials too you can use maps, if you need.
“Maps” are not only images applied to a layer in order to represent the real material of the object, which is a global feature.
They’re also able to enhance the different parts of the object, where you have different labor finishings, surfaces, etc (such as
opacity, polished, levigated, reflective…). Available maps are:
Diffuse map: image applied as a texture to the object. This is the main image, that is the one referring to the type of material.
Roughness map (bump map): it is a grey-scale image, where you can find the areas of the material being rough. Where bump is
brighter it means you have emboss sections, where the maximum will be given by a white pixel; darker areas are areas where you
have a sort of low relief.
Reflection map: it is a grey-scale image, where you can find areas of the material being reflective. Brighter areas are meant to be
as reflective as you move towards white color: fully white means fully reflective. Darker areas are meant to be opaque.
Managing materials while inside a project
It is possible to manage the materials to use inside the project by executing the command Materials available
in the Layout window inside the ribbon group Virtual 3D  Materials.
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Whenever you place a furnishing element in the project, in fact, the application automatically loads the materials needed by
the object in the project structure. You can create a new material even from this mask (New button, but it would be available
only within the current project), or you can create a new one in the application database (Database  Materials  New) and
load it inside the project through Load button in the materials mask. When creating a new material, you can type the material
name and typology, hence decide if the material will be a basic or an Arch&Design one. In this phase you can even load preset
configurations from the database, and modify them as you need.
ARCH&DESIGN Materials
Before talking about standard properties of Arch&Design materials, we need to focus on the physics related to the light which
is reflected by a surface:
Diffused reflection is regular and homogeneous in all directions starting from a linear surface (spherical behavior). Blurred
reflection creates a sort of ‘cone’, the axis of which is indicated by the specular reflection of the light. Specular reflection is the
mirrored ray of the light, with the same angle between coming and leaving ray.
Main properties
Diffuse level: talks about the applied map intensity and color. This effect is linked to the reflection and transparency effects.
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Diffuse level: 50
Diffuse level: 100
Diffuse color: is the main color of the object.
Roughness: controls how quickly the diffuse component blends into the ambient component. The diffuse component uses
the Oren-Nayar shading model. Typically, for a common rough material this parameter can be 20, while a polished one can
be 0.
Reflection level: is the parameter to be used in order to change the way object reflects light. Increasing it will make the
object more reflecting. For example, mirrors could reach even 100 (maximum).
Reflection color: is the color of the reflected and/or diffused light. Default is white.
Reflection glossiness (blur): allows you to get blur reflections. 100 (maximum) means good, total, reflection; lower values
will give you blur effects, depending on the value/material.
As an example, let’s see how this effect is referred to mirrors:
Refl. gloss. 100
Refl. gloss. 50
Refl. gloss. 10
Glossiness (blur) quality: scale of the quality you need to achieve for blur effects. If you increase this parameter, results
are more accurate but time to render will increase too. Suggested value is around 32.
Fast (interpolate): fast method to be used in order to get blur reflections. Not to be used in case you do not have plane
sections on the objects.
Fast (no ray): if you enable this check, reflected rays are not 100% real, as just the rays related to the light emitter will be
seen; weakened rays will be, indeed, given by indirect illumination (FG).
Metal material: if you enable this check you’re deciding that the color of specular reflections will be the same as the
diffused color. Suggest to enable it only when facing metal materials.
Refraction
Transparency level: is the parameter to be used in order to change the way object will use refraction. If you increase so
much this value, the object could become quite transparent.
Refraction color: is the refraction color. This is a fast way in order to assign colors to transparent objects, like glasses.
Refraction glossiness (blur): is an index of object transparency/refraction intensity. If you use 100, material will be
completely transparent, if 0 transparency will be blur affected.
Glossiness (blur) quality: scale of the quality you need to achieve for blur effects. If you increase this parameter, results
are more accurate but time to render will increase too. Suggested value is something around 32.
Index of refraction (IOR): this is a measure of the way a ray will be refracted when going through a transparent material.
IOR equal 1 allows you to have full transparency without deviation; suggested when surface is thin (slim), and/or you want
to accelerate rendering time. Differently these are commonly used values for this field:
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Material
Water
IOR
1.33
Glass
Cristal
Diamond
1.5
2.00
2.42
Fast (interpolate): fast way in order to get blur transparencies. Not to be used in case you do not have plane sections on
the objects.
Maps
Diffuse map (texture)
Activate: if enabled, File field texture will be used, instead of object diffuse color.
File: contains full path of the texture map file
allows you to browse your disk in order to find
to be used for the object. This button
out the needed file.
Scale: this value is a reference of the size of the
it’ll be replicated over the object surface.
enlarged, hence step will be bigger. If the scale
distortion of the image; if it is too low, you’ll
texture, like a ‘mosaic’. Which is the right scale,
quality; if it is big and good quality, you can
graphic quality and effect. Default value is: 250.
foresaid texture, hence the step with which
Increasing scale, texture image will be
is too high, you will face the risk of seeing a
face the risk of a tough repetition on the
then? Well, it depends on the image size and
even use a high scale, obtaining a good
Reflection map
Activate: if enabled, File field texture will be used, instead of object Reflection level.
File: contains full path of the texture map file to be used for the object. This button allows you to browse your disk
in order to find out the needed file. That file has to contain a grey-scale image. You can use reflection map when object
face has NOT to reflect the same way all over the area, but you have more or less reflective zones over it (even different
pixel by pixel). If you want, indeed, an area that reflects the same way all over, (i.e. a mirror) you d not need to use
reflection map, as you can work around Reflection level in main properties.
Scale: same as in Diffuse map scale. Default is: 250
Bump map
Activate: if enabled, File field texture will be used for the mapping (other fields are enabled just if this one is checked).
File: contains full path of the texture map file to be used for the material. This button
in order to find out the needed file (grey-scale image) to be used for the bump.
allows you to browse your disk
Scale: same as in Diffuse map scale. Default is: 250.
Multiplier: adjusts bump intensity and bump direction (emboss, positive or negative). The default value is -1. By setting
this value to - 3 or – 10, the influence of roughness map on the same material is higher, and the result is better.
Do not apply it to diffuse shading: By using this parameter the roughness map to the diffuse shading material will be
not applied.
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Advanced parameters
Anisotropy: it is the ratio between width and height referred to the area where the light
reflects. If this value is 1 you are disabling this parameter.
Anisotropy Rotation: is the opportunity of setting up a rotation in the area where the
light reflects: 0 means that you do not have any rotation, 1 means that rotation is 360°.
Traslucency: translucency is a kind of peculiar effect linked to transparency. If you use
translucency, the application automatically enables transparency too.
Traslucency Weight: it is the % of transparency used within translucency.
You can use translucency with thin objects, such as sheets of paper or tents.
Translucency Color: is the color used for translucency.
BRDF
In real life, reflection you have on a surface always depends on the point of view where you
are. BRDF (Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function) is referred to this effect, and
allows you to define reflection behavior depending on the position you’re looking from. So
many materials are linked to this effect, in real life: glass and water, for example, influence
reflection angle (IOR, refraction index, which we talked about before in this chapter). In the
same way, you can setup the reflection angle through BRDF.
The most notable examples are composed of dielectric materials such as glass and water: in
this case the angle of reflection is closely related to the refractive index (IOR). Materials such
as lacquered wood, plastic, etc. show very similar characteristics.
By IOR (fresnel): if this check is enabled, reflection mode is given only by material IOR;
differently it is possible to manually setup reflection angle following up a diagram you
can find in next page.
0 deg refl: about reflection made by surfaces which are perpendicular to point of view.
90 deg refl: about reflection made by surfaces which are parallel to point of view.
Curve shape: is the way the curve goes down while following the angle.
Reflection made by polished lacquered wood depending on view angle. Es. 0 deg refl = 10 e 90 deg refl = 100
For most of the materials correct 90 deg refl parameter is 1.
0 deg refl can be 0.8 for metals, while for floor and polished materials can step between 0.1 and 0.3.
Ambient occlusion
For most of the materials correct 90 deg refl parameter is 1.
0 deg refl can be 0.8 for metals, while for floor and polished materials can step between 0.1 and 0.3.
Ambient occlusion: OFF
Ambient occlusion: ON
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Here follows a list of related parameters for such effect:
On: enables/disables Ambient occlusion.
Samples: number of rays used in order to get such effect. If you increase this value you have a much more faded, real and
non dithered image, even if time to render will increase. We suggest you to use 16, as this is probably the best compromise
between rendering speed and quality.
Max Distance: is the distance (radius) from which you can start evaluating the shadow all around the object. Low values
mean a smaller shadow and a quicker rendering.
Do Details: allows you to get better Ambient occlusion effect when applied to objects with small contact surface.
Shadow Color: allows you to setup the intensity of the Ambient occlusion shadow. Dark colors mean dark shadows, and
vice versa.
Ambient Color: is the color of the ambient light used by Ambient occlusion. This is a very useful parameter, as it allows you
to enhance shadow portions if they are not strong enough, as well as reduce the intensity of the shadow if you need
brighter areas.
Fast Glossy Interpolation
Interpolation grid Density: you can use this option in order to obtain blur reflection and refraction effects, reducing time
to render. This parameter, hence, represents the resolution/density of the grid used in order to calculate
reflection/refraction blur, in a way defining blur quality. Low resolutions mean less time to render, but also less quality and
blur details.
Refl. neigh. points to look up: this is the number of points of the scene, placed all around the position in which the
application needs to calculate the blur effect. These points will make the grid which is the basis for the calculation
procedure.
Use high detail distance: this parameter allows you to use a higher number of rays in order to get more detailed effects.
Single Sample from Environment: when you want to create render images containing blurred reflections, you usually use
a lot of rays (samples) coming from outdoor. If you enable this check, you ask the application to use just one single ray.
This tip can be useful in order to prevent environment, generic blur.
Refr. neigh. points to look up: this is the number of points of the scene placed around the specific point where you want
to calculate blur reflection. These points will make the grid which is the basis for the calculation procedure.
Advanced Reflection options
Use max distance: this parameter allows you to specify if material reflection will manifest up to a certain distance.
Max Distance: from this distance on (referred to the current unit measure you selected in the application options) you’ll
not see anymore the effect.
Fade to End Color: if you enable this check, reflection will fade assuming a particular color; if disabled, reflection will
manifest environment you have around.
Color to Fade to: this is the color reflection will fade to, starting from Max Distance.
Max Trace Depth: allows you to reduce interaction between reflection rays and the object. When you reach, for such
interaction, maximum limit, material will behave as if you have enabled the options Highlights + Final Gather only.
Visible area lights no highlights: this options is exclusively referred to area lights. Area lights are particular lights that are
represented in the scene by a flash
light, that can be even too strong if you
empower the light source:
enabling this check allows you to avoid tough
flashes with these lights.
Skip Reflection on inside: most of
reflection effects generated inside objects are
so weak that you even do not
appreciate them. So you can save time on
rendering just avoiding their calculation. In this case enable this check in order not to care about internal reflections (which
is enabled, by default).
Advanced Refraction Options
Thin-Walled: it allows you to specify if the object the material has been assigned to is thin or not. Object thickness, in fact,
can interfere with reflection as well as refraction effects.
Use Max Distance: this parameter allows you to specify if material refraction will manifest up to a certain distance.
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Max Distance: from this distance on (referred to the current unit measure you selected in the application options) you’ll
not see anymore the effect.
Fade to End Color: if you enable this check, refraction will fade assuming a particular color starting from Max Distance.
Color to Fade to: this is the color refraction will fade to starting from Max Distance. This color has a linear increasing ratio:
it doubles as you double the distance from the object.
Max Trace Depth: allows you to reduce interaction between refraction rays and the object.
Do Refractive Caustics: this option allows you to add to material standard refraction effect, “caustics” effect too. Generated
shadow can be modified by this option.
Advanced parameters (last group)
Back Face Culling: when the parameter is enabled, the surface viewing is disabled and its "normal vectors" are faced
inwards, thus making them invisible. While using this feature, the application that makes the outer wall of the room
transparent (just as it happens automatically during navigation) without external light entering the room is very important.
Actually, if you hide an inner wall facing the camera situated outside the room, you can render the interior of the room.
Yet, the external light (sunlight) passes through the generated opening, modifying the room light balance To achieve the
same result without the external light enters, proceed as follows:
make sure that there are no tiles laid on the wall you need to hide (possibly eliminate installation);
apply material to an interior wall with this parameter enabled;
hide the outer wall (only the outer): click the Right Mouse button on the outer wall and then select the Hide command on
the pop-up menu that appears.
Transparency propagates Alpha: saves object transparence settings over the Alpha cannel of the image.
FG-GI Multiplier: Allows tweaking of how strongly the material responds to indirect light.
FG Quality: is a multiplier referred to the number of Final Gather rays emitted by the material.
Additional color: with this option, you can decide that the material will be able to emit light by itself, specifying which color
you want it to emit.
Highlight Refl. Balance: 100 by default, allows you to balance the effect of light reflection over the surface. Sometimes, in
fact, lights can be so strong to ‘burn’ objects, or create very bright areas: decreasing such parameter, will let you reduce
such effect.
Let’s go back, now, talking about the mask containing all materials available (and loaded) in the project.
If you click on
you’ll be able to load in the project, from the application database, one of the existing materials in
order to assign them to objects and furnishings. In order to choose among available materials, you’ll step through the Materials
selection mask. This is a sort of filter where you can specify the name of the material you’d like to load, and/or the specified
typology in order to select one of the woods, or marbles, etc…
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In case you want to modify one of the materials loaded in the project (this will NOT modify the original material available in
the application database), you can click on
(or double click over the material preview) in order to access Material
parameters mask, where you can change one or more parameters among available set. If you modify such project-material,
you do not have to assign it again to all objects, as they will change automatically providing you the new effects you’ve set up.
button allows you to duplicate selected material in order to keep the original one in case you need it in the future.
As the new/copied material is available, you can assign it to any object in the layout selecting it and clicking
button:
you will be asked to select the destination object, then one or more layers on which to apply the given material.
button, of course, allows you to remove the material from the list of project-materials. This procedure will NOT
delete also the material in the internal database (if any). Also notice that if
the material is still assigned to one of the project objects, you’ll not be able
to delete it. In this case you have, first, to remove material from the objects
you formerly assigned it to.
In order to quickly use most common materials-features, you can also right
click the mouse button over their previews, to get the context menu
containing these commands:
Managing materials from application database
In case you want to setup your own materials, we suggest you to do it inside
the application database. If you work over a material while inside the project, in fact, this modification will not be available for
further projects. Database  Materials commands allow you to create, modify, delete … existing materials in database.
Most of the features are really the same as described before, hence we’ll not repeat them again; what’s new in this menu, is
the export/import procedure you can work with. They are useful in order to transfer a group of materials from one location to
another, or to backup that portion of database in order to save your data. Database  Materials  Export allows you to select
a group of materials (all of them if you leave empty all the fields of the first selection mask).
At the end of the procedure, you’ll find exported materials in the \export directory of the application: several directories
containing images and text files (materialimr.txt and parametri.txt) containing technical data and properties settings about
materials.
In order to import them in a second location, copy all the content referred to materials in the \Import directory of the
destination computer; hence select command Database  Materials  Import. You’ll be asked to select the directory
containing all files (txt files + additional directories containing materials).
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Materials for tiles
It is possible to assign materials (that’s to say finishings, surface materials)
to tiles and whichever covering material you already have loaded in the
application database.
When you select command Database  Tiles  New/Modify, you get to
this mask where you can modify all details about that tile.
You can find Rendering Material section, where you can apply preset or
custom materials.
Preset materials button allows you to select (see image on the right) one of
the available finishings and borders among those available in the application
database: it is also possible to have a preview of the rendered material
applied to such item.
Text information on the left gives you a summary about the tile, its format
… the format given to the border, which also depends on the original size, in
pixels, of the tile itself. If such image is not large enough (talking about pixels)
you could be alerted by the system about this problem, as the application could not
be ready to smooth the original tile image in order to create the border. In this case
increase dimension of the border (tile image too big) or change the image tile and
make it bigger, if it’s too small.
Custom materials button allows you to create a customized material to apply over
the surface of the tile. You will get to the same mask you already saw regarding
materials, previously in this manual, except for diffuse mapping, which is enabled as
it refers to the tile image.
Delete button allows, of course, deleting the material previously applied to the tile itself.
Apply to entire collection button can be useful in case finishing material can be applied to the rest of the tiles in the same
collection. This is the situation where you do not have a peculiar bump image, but you can provide an effect all over the surface
of the tile. In this case it is useful to work on 1 tile only, then to replicate the same material to the remaining tiles in the
collection.
Once the tile has been saved with the new material, and used within a project, you can modify the project tile material working
in the Modify tiling, by selecting command ModifyTileModify material …, which will lead you through the well known
mask related to Material parameters.
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Render Manager
License
Render Manager (also R.M. later on in this paragraph) is a DomuS3D® companion application that can be used in order to
launch rendering process outside DomuS3D®. In this way your Application will remain ready and available in order to keep on
working and designing projects, while the rendering effort will be directed to the Render Manager itself.
Render Manager can be installed in 2 different ways:
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On the same computer where DomuS3D® is; in this case Render Manager license is free if you have a DomuS3D®
Professional or Enterprise version, as it uses the same hardware protection key of the Application. Your Application,
indeed, will be slower depending on the cores you assigne to the R.M., as part of the computer resources will be
used by the R.M..
On a different computer (so called Render Server); in this case you need to purchase a dedicated license for the R.M.,
and you will receive a second hardware protection key, to be placed on the Render Server.
The R.M. setup procedure is available on the same DVD of the Application, by clicking the Install Render Manager button.
Render Manager application is available both for 32 and 64 bits.
Install Render Slave allows you to install the atom for activating distributed rendering (available only with V-Ray).
R.M. is able to render both with mental ray® and V-Ray, and can be used both with Pegasus and Antares render jobs.
The rendering job
Before getting deeper with Render Manager, we need to understand what a Rendering Job is. A rendering job is a .zip file (so
a group of files) containing all the information the Application (or R.M.) will need in order to launch the rendering process later
on.
In the paragraph called Launch the rendering process, earlier in this Chapter, you
have seen that in the Rendering Parameters mask you can decide if starting the
rendering immediately (in this case Application stops waiting for the rendering to
be completed), or creating a 360° Panorama (6 renderings in order to build up the
Panorama), or creating a Job (see red lined button in the image on the left). Even
without using R.M., in fact, DomuS3D® can render many scenes in a loop by using
the render jobs; this is a very useful feature, for example, in order to prepare the
rendering jobs during the day, place them all in the same folder, and render them
overnight, when typically the computer is free to operate.
Once the rendering jobs are ready, close the project and select Start rendering job command from the Home section
of the Ribbon. You will be asked to locate the folder where you saved the jobs files, and the Application will start
the rendering process for all of them.
At the end of the process, in the original folder you will find new folders (one for each rendering), each one containing the
rendered image together with other files we’ll describe later on.
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How to use Render Manager
Once you have installed R.M., the first time you use it you will be asked to specify the folder where to pick up the rendering
jobs. You can change the location even later on, so this is not a final choice.
In the following image you can see the Render Manager application while it is working:
A: this section contains the rendering jobs still to be processed (on queue)
B: this section contains the rendered jobs (and the one currently being processed)
C: this section allows you to change rendering priority (order)
D: by clicking this button you can change the folder from where to pick up the rendering jobs
E: this section provides you some information about the size of the image to be rendered, and the time of current rendering
F: here you can see the image while being created by the engine
The B section, as said before, contains the list of all the rendered jobs (and the one currently being processed).
The red cross symbol (Bathroom job) relates to rendering jobs that have been interrupted by user, or
encountered a technical problem and have not been completed.
The green check symbol (Living job) relates to rendering jobs that have correctly been completed. If you
double click over it you will open the folder containing the rendered image.
The gray gear symbol (RenderKitchen job) relates to the job currently being processed.
In the next page we will learn how to setup a rendering job session.
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Before starting the rendering job, it is important to setup R.M. options. Click the Options button, which is pointed out in this
image:
You will access the R.M. Options mask:
The CPU Cores section allows you to decide whether or not using all the power of the computer. If R.M. is running on a
Rendering Server, you may like it to use all cores, but if you are using R.M. on the same computer where DomuS3D® and other
applications are, maybe it is better to leave at least 2 CPU for other purposes. The rendering process, in fact, is very intensive
and tends to use as many cores as possible.
In case you have purchased V-Ray, you can use the distributed rendering option in order to speed up the rendering process
also by using multiple computers. This is what the section marked by Distributed Rendering (V-Ray) refers to; here you can
enable this option (you have to install the distributed rendering applications on the computers you want to use prior using
them in the R.M.), add new computers to the rendering network (both providing their PC-name, or the IP the computer has in
the LAN), or remove existing ones. You can use up to 10 computers for distributed rendering.
The Log section allows you to specify the e-mail address that will receive a notification (and the rendered image as well, if you
want) as soon as a rendering job has been completed. The email server field will be filled in with the reference of the mail
server available in the Company’s LAN. Email server has to allow sending email without user profiling (for the LAN use only);
moreover, you have to install an e-mail Client in the computer where Render Manager is running, associated to the user profile
that you’re using in order to run Render Manager.
Use this button if you have added new jobs to the queue, and you want to refresh the list in section A of the R.M..
Use this button in order to start the rendering process (if there are rendering jobs available in section A)
Use these buttons in order to pause or stop a rendering. Pause allows you to operate on the computer in case
you need to do something urgent. Play will start again the same rendering from where it was paused right before.
Stop will definitively cancel the render process to the current rendering job.
Click this button if you want the computer to shut down when the rendering process has been finished (and all the
rendering jobs in the queue has been completed).
Click this button if you want to open the rendering job folder
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The rendering results
If you double click one of the renderings that have been completed, marked by the green check (or you enter
the related folder in the rendering jobs folder) you will find a group of files similar to the one you can see in
the next image:
In this folder you can see that there are sub-folders containing the images of the tiles and materials used by the renderer.
You also see the file.zip you formerly used in order to start the rendering job (in this case Living.zip).
The jpg and png files are related to the rendered image, and are the ones you need to pick from here.
It is also important to notice that the .rpk file is the file related to the project (if you rename it in .pjp , you can import in the
Application at any time. In a way, it is a backup pf the project at the time of the rendering)
Finally, the .log file contains all information about the rendering process: image size, point of view, time to be rendered, as
well as all the rendering parameters, etc… It’s worth to have a look at it even later on, and it is also useful to save this file
together with the rendered image and the project file (.zip or .rpk).
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Bibliography
mental ray®, English books
1
mental ray for Maya, 3ds Max, and XSI
A 3D Artist’s guide to Rendering
Boaz Livny
Published by SYBEX
2
Rendering with mental ray & 3ds Max
Joep van der Steen
Published by Focal Press
3
Realistic Architectural Visualization with 3ds Max and mental ray
Roger Cusson and Jamie Cardoso
Pubished by Focal Press
mental ray®, Italian books
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mental ray per Autodesk 3ds Max e Autodesk VOZ
Matteo Magnazzi e Stefano Armeni
Published by AM4 educational
V-Ray, English books
1
http://viscorbel.com/
OnLine Documentation and Tutorial
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Architectural Rendering with 3dsMax and V-Ray
Photorealistic Visalization
Markus Kuhlo and Enrico Eggert
FocalPress (This book contains examples)
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http://help.chaosgroup.com/vray/help/200R1/
V-Ray, Italian books
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V-Ray Guida definitiva
Raffele Vella
Published by IMAGO Edizioni (http://www.vrayguidadefinitiva.com)
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VRay 1.5: La Guida Completa (Terza edizione)
Francesco Legrenzi
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3ds Max 2011 & V-Ray
Elisabetta Cenci
Published by MCGraw-Hill
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http://www.wikicg.it/wiki/index.php?title=Vray150R1
V-Ray 1.5 manual Italian translation
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This chapter is dedicated to technical features that will allow you to provide the installer details about the way to have the job
done.
Estimate
Calculate the project estimate
The Application can provide you the calculation of used materials. If you want to open the Estimate window, go to the Layout
window, open the TOOLS section of the Ribbon, and click the button Calculate:
This command is available in the Layout Ribbon only. A second way to open the Estimate window (from wherever you are in
the project), is to use the related shortcut: Ctrl + P .
This window contains a spreadsheet where you can find all details about the items available in the project.
If you make any modification in the project, remember to click Update button in order to see the up-do-date information about
material quantity.
If you’re dealing with a multi-room project, you can group the materials room by room.
If you click the title of any column, you can change the order of the estimate records; in this case you can order by quantity,
price, typology, etc…
If you click the column’s title, and you keep the mouse pressed, you can move the column so that the order in the table is the
one you prefer to see (an example is available in the next page images).
If you click the right mouse button over a record, you can see this list of commands.
New record allows you to create a new item in the estimate (also called non-graphic item). Such
item will not be graphic, as it does not come from the Components window (e.g., could be some
hardware for the kitchen units, or electrical equipment, … that you do not see in the Navigation
window, but still need to consider in the project estimate).
Modify record: you can change some item details in the estimate. Such a modification does not affect the item in the Application
library, but just the one available in the project. Note: you can also double click a record to access the modify record mask.
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Delete record: allows you to temporary delete an item from the estimate. Consider that if you calculate the estimate again
(e.g., by clicking the Update button) all graphic entities which are in the project will be calculated again and placed in the
estimate, despite the fact that you formerly deleted from the spreadsheet.
Recalculate: the application calculates again the estimate, considering all items that are in the project (graphic items).
Initialize and recalculate: the application deletes all estimate (including non–graphic items) and calculates again the estimate.
With this feature you will loose non-graphic items, formerly manually placed.
Optimized or exact calculation
The estimate can be calculated with 2 different algorithms: Automatic waste and No waste. As you can see in the next image,
you can quickly switch between the two, directly from within the Estimate window.
Automatic waste: this is the standard algorithm used by the Application. The Application knows that every time you cut a tile
you have to consider a waste factor. For this reason if you are using more than 50% of a tile, the Application adds the complete
tile to the Estimate, as the rest is considered waste (this is common for tiles).
No waste: calculation refers to theoretical area covered by the tile, without any waste. The area of the surface (floor, wall) is
mathematically divided by the area of the tile. This is common for hardwood, resins, … but also in order to know the exact
square meters you need for each item.
In the next images you can see the difference between Automatic/No waste. Look at the Waste (%) and Sold quantity fields:
totals change depending on the choice you made.
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Change item’s waste factor
If you want to change a single item waste factor select the item, double click the left mouse button on it, and you’ll approach
the item panel (see next image).
Change the waste factor as you need, and that the estimate will update items quantity. In this mask you can also change
standard details, such as description, price, … and even items code; just remember that once you update again the estimate,
you’ll loose those changes, so make them just at the end of the designing phase, and prior printing/exporting.
Red T in this image is related to the Price Type field.
Export the estimate
DomuS3D® allows you to export the project estimate to external systems. The basic export option is the Excel format. While
you’re in the Estimate window, open the ESTIMATE section of the Ribbon, and click the Export
button. You can see 3 different choices.
The first one allows you to create an Excel file with the same content of the estimate you see in
the Application (see image below).
The second and third options allow you to send the estimate to the Account Software. Note:
these options run only if DomuS3D® has formerly been connected to the Account software. This
connection procedure cannot be done independently by the user, and needs Maticad to work together with your Account
software provider. Contact Maticad in order to receive further information on this kind of integration.
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Print the estimate
The Application allows you to print the estimate in several ways.
In the estimate window, open the ESTIMATE section of the Ribbon, and click Print button, as you can see
in this image.
The print you will get is similar to the one you can see in the next image. You already learnt in the
Introduction chapter how to customize the images and logos in Application printouts.
This printout cannot be customized (apart for the logos).
If you need to customize printouts, you can refer to a different section, as we’ll see in the next page.
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In the estimate window, open the ESTIMATE section of the Ribbon, and click Paper layout button, as you
can see in this image.
Before printing you can now choose the template you want to use, as you can see in the next image.
In the bottom section you can find several templates available in order to print the estimate. Choose one of them and you will
see a print preview opening inside the Application, as you can see in this image.
Indeed, this is more than a simple preview. As you can see, it is MicorosftTM Word inside your Application, showing you the
result of the estimate printout basing on the selected template. As you have an editor, you can use all the Word power in order
to change and customize the printout as you need. You can print this window, as well as export it as a .docx file.
Note: Application uses Word just in case you already installed it on your computer, as Word is not licensed together with the
Application. If you do not have Word, Application uses a similar editor (less powerful word processor).
Note: you can customize the templates to be used while printing. Those files are contained in the folder:
…\DomuS3D\Stampe\(we used maticad_modello_PreventivoImg_N2.neutral.docx in the previous image). If you have
processed the technical support service, you can contact Maticad if you want to create and customize your own templates .
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Print
As any WindowsTM application, DomuS3D® allows you to print everything you see on the screen. In every window you can use
the command FilePrint, as you can see in this image.
There are useful printouts, indeed, that the Application can create for you. In this section you can find examples of some of
them.
Blueprint for the installer
In the Layout window, open the TOOLS section of the Ribbon, and select the command Blueprint for the installer.
This sheet contains very useful information for the installer, as there is a detailed plan of the tiles to be placed in the floor …
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… as well as for each wall of the project.
As you can see, the walls printouts provide also information about the objects position and tiles sections. This documentation
will be very useful when sending information to the team who’ll take care of setting up the room following your instructions.
Note: if you do not see some information in your printout, remember to go to the Options mask, where you can decide what
to hide and what to show in technical blueprints.
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Floor/Walls blueprint for the installer
Similar to the previous one, you can have all the needed information just in one sheet. It is the Floor/Walls Blueprint for the
installer command.
As you can see in this image, you have all details about the floor and the walls together, provided that the project’s shape
allows it.
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Print project summary
You can also decide to use templates (similar to the one you already saw in the Estimate section), available
through the Paper Layout command, in order to print folders that contain multiple information on the
project.
As you already know, you can customize those templates, and use the integrated word processor in order
to change them prior printing (or creating PDF).
Select the Paper Layout command, available in the TOOLS section of the Ribbon.
In this example we’ve selected Booklet n. 10 template; you can see a preview of the template directly in the selection mask,
prior proceeding. IN the next image you can see the result of Booklet n. 10, which is a one page template.
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There are templates, indeed, that will allow you to print project summary over multiple pages. The next images have been
printed by using Booklet n. 6.
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Share
It is important to be able to share the project with customers, architects, colleagues… or even just moving it on your iPAD or
Android Tablet/smartphone in order to check and show it everywhere you are.
Thanks to the free App called DomuS3D.Box, you can export the 360° Panorama to your device. Connect to the AppStore or
GooglePlay, download the App and start sharing projects.
The App runs on iOS systems (iPAD, iPhone, iPod, 4.2 or later), and Android systems (4.2 or later).
Share single Panoramas
In the Navigation window, open the Navigation section of the Ribbon, and select the command Save
Panorama 360°. You will get to the following mask.
Source: If you want to share the project with Navigation quality, in the Source group select Navigation. The Panorama is
generated from the current point of view of the Navigation window. If you want to share the Rendering quality, select Folder,
and locate the folder where you formerly saved the 360° Panorama in rendering mode (refer to rendering Chapter for saving
panoramas).
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Destination: in this group select DomuS3D.Box by e-mail in order to send an email containing the attachment with the
Panorama. Of course the computer you’re using has to have installed a mail Client, such as MicrosoftTM Outlook or similar.
On the device you will receive this email:
As you tap over the project image called panorama.box, a popup appears asking your to specify the App to use for this
attachment. Select Open in DomuS3D.Box, as you can see in the next image. The App will raise and load the project locally, so
that you’ll have it inside your device even if working off-line.
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Advanced Panoramas
DomuS3D® allows you to connect multiple Panoramas in a single project, so that you can share a multi-room project,
or even look the same scene from different points of view. Moreover, you can add technical details regarding the
most important items available in the scene, such as tiles, or objects/furnishing. This opportunity is available for user
who have purchased the TouchFly additional module. Refer to the chapter dedicated to TouchFly to learn more.
TouchFly module
TouchFly is an optional module that allows you to synchronize the Application library with an App made for the iOS.
Refer to the chapter dedicated to TouchFly to learn more..
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Chapter 7: Database
Maintenance
Backup procedure for the Standalone version
Starting from Pegasus version, DomuS3D® is equipped with SQL Server Local DB. This means that you can create a
complete backup of your application by simply copying the DomuS3D® folder.
Note: It is important to close the Application prior making the copy of the files. This procedure backs up all the Application and
its content (data), so it is not incremental.
If you need to proceed with a restore, make sure that the Application you’re going to restore is the same version you formerly
backed up.
We warmly suggest you to plan a daily or weekly backup of your data.
Backup procedure for the Client/Server version
As the Client/Server version uses a SQL Server (Express) database, you cannot backup the application the same way as the
Standalone.
For the Client/Server, backup can be done (on the server, where the Database has been installed) via the Maticad Application
Manager software, which is equipped with the Setup DVD and should be installed on the Server together with DomuS3D®; in
case it is missing, it can be separately installed from the Application DVD.
Maticad Application Manager does not create an incremental backup, but a complete backup of the Application data.
Server Administrator can also use standard WindowsTM applications and techniques for backing up not only the DomuS3D®,
but also the Operating System.
We warmly suggest you to plan a daily or weekly backup of your data.
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Tiles
Create your own single tile
You can create your own tiles adding them to the internal library, provided that you have the tile image together with the item
details. In the Ribbon, get to the DATABASE section, and in the Tiles group select the command Tiles managementNew.
You will approach the mask that allows you to create a new tile (or even modify details of an existing one).
Fill in the tile details, such as item code, description, collection name. Provide a manufacturer code by selecting button marked
as A in the image: you will access the manufacturer codes mask, where you can select the manufacturer the item refers to. If
it is the first time you use that manufacturer, create a reference for it (be careful at the manufacturer code: the Application
will not let you use an existing manufacturer code while creating a new one).
Next step is to select the image the item refers to; click the B button in order to locate the image file on disk. If you are modifying
an existing tile, you can click the C-marked button in the image, in order to open the tile’s image folder.
Finally, we need to specify the item format. Click the Simple button, and you will access the following mask:
Here you can choose (in the left section of the mask) the format shape (note that depending on the format you choose, this
mask will reveal 2 or 3 fields where to place the format dimensions: in this image you can see b and h, as the rectangular format
is based on 2 dimensions). Once you have selected the format shape, specify the tile’s format filling in the b + h fields, or select
values that are already existing in the list (the one on the left side of the mask) and click the arrow to copy and paste it. The
left column of the list allows you to see the format in the unit measure you currently have selected for your Application
(centimeters in the left image, inch in the right one). The right column of the list gives you the dimension in millimeters (that
is the real unit measure used by the Application while in drawing procedures and calculations).
Select the format and go back to the previous mask: if you want to set also the price of the tile, click the Advanced button to
access price section. If you click OK you save the new tile in the Application library; from this moment on you should see it in
the Components window.
Note: if you double click a tile image in the components window, you will automatically open the tile properties mask, so that
you can check or change the item details, as well as open the folder where the tile image is.
Load multiple tiles with 1 click
It is also possible to load in the Application thousands of tiles with just 1 click. This feature is usually dedicated to
Manufacturers, who can speed up their process exporting all the data from the ERP system, and automatically import them in
DomuS3D®; in fact this is an optional module, and your license may not include it (check if it is available by selecting command
called Import-ExportAutomatic import, in the Tiles group of the DATABASE section of the Ribbon).
You can load multiple tiles preparing a folder that contains all the tiles images (even divided in sub-folders, for example one
for each collection, but remember to keep trace of this path in the Excel spreadsheet). Secondly, you have to fill in the Excel
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spreadsheet you will receive from the Support Team, containing all the technical information of the tiles, such as item code,
description, collection name, format, etc…; the Excel has to be saved as txt file so that the Application can read it and import
all tiles with one click.
Refer to Support Team (look at the last section of the manual in order to find contact details) in order to receive the Excel
spreadsheet together with the information for importing multiple tiles.
Furnishing elements (3D Objects)
Load a new object in the library
You can import your own 3D objects in the internal library, in order to customize it as you need.
Note: if the elements you need are already available in the DomuS3D® Cloud, you can download them by connecting to the
Live! Page (note: the download service may not be included in the version you bought/received).
There are tons of element on the Internet (e.g., you can find many DAE files connecting to: https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com.
Search your typology and download object. If DAE is not available, proceed by downloading the SketchUp version, and use free
SketchUp software to export the object in DAE format).
You always have to refer to 3D objects (2D are not enough for DomuS3D®); in case they are in DXF format, check they have
been designed using 3DFaces and not Blocks.
At the moment of writing, the allowed formats are: DXF, 3ds, DAE.
Once you have downloaded and saved locally the 3D file, go to the Ribbon, get to the DATABASE section, and in the Furnishing
elements group select the command Elements managementNew. Fill in the item details such as item code, description, etc…
Click the Import button in order to load the external 3D file and assign it to the new element.
Once you confirm the creation procedure, you should see the new element in the Components window. If you need to modify
it again, double click on it in order to open again the item properties mask.
Note: click the Modify button if you want to see the objects in 3D. Such a visualization also allows you to check the layers of
the object, and assign materials to each layer: select the layer you want to refer to, click Material button in order to choose
the effect you want to assign to that layer, and confirm by clicking the Set … button. If layer names are in a different language
than yours, click Show-Selected class button, so that the 3D representation of the object will let you see just the currently
selected layer.
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Group existing objects in a single item in library
Sometimes it can be useful to group more items in a single one, so that next time you’ll save time dragging & dropping one
object instead of many. You can create your own group (and code it in the library) if you have already placed all the items in
the layout of the project. From the layout window, select the command FileDatabaseFurnishing elementsNewSelect
items group, as you can see in the next image.
You will be asked to select the items you want to group, using the left mouse button. Confirm and stop selection by using the
right mouse button, and finally provide item information.
Now go to the Components window: you should find the group you have just created. Next time you’ll drag&drop it in a project,
the Application will ask you if you want it to remain a single item or if you want to explode it, separating the single items. In
the first option you cannot change the position of the items available in the group, and the estimate will contain just one
record.
In the second, all the items can be moved or deleted separately, and the estimate will report one record for each one of them.
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Load complete pricelist in the Application database
You already learnt, in the previous paragraphs, that you can set the item price in the Advanced section of the item details mask;
this means that you need to work item by item, manually. That’s an easy and quick procedure if you need to change just a few
prices, while it’ll be useless if you need to change the full catalogue price.
In order to set the price of multiple records, you can create a text file (naming it the way you want) containing all details and
load it in the Application database with just one click; usually, such file can be generated by the account software that contains
both codes and up-to-date prices.
In this paragraph you will learn how to setup the text file for the pricelist automatic importation procedure.
Once the text file is ready, you can import it in the Application’s database by selecting the command Supplier pricelistImport,
available in the DATABASE section of the Ribbon, in the pricelist group.
Here’s the list of the fields the text file has to contain (be careful of the order), and their explanation (as the fields have been
reported with the internal name of the database); all fields are separated by a comma (,), and text qualifier is “:
"codice","cod_articolo","var_colore",”codice_produttore”,"tipo_listino",
"categoria","cod_valuta","descrizione","fornitore","collezione",
"desc_serie","in_produzione","tipo_formato","formato","peso_unitario",
"nrpz_confezione","unita_misura","data_genlist","data_declist0",
"cod_listino0","esente_iva0","aliquota_iva0","prezzo_base00", "prezzo_base01","prezzo_base02"
codice
Internal (showroom) Item code, alphanumeric, maximum 24 characters.
cod_articolo
Item code (original by manufacturer), alphanumerical, maximum 24 characters.
var_colore
Color variant, alphanumeric, maximum 12 characters.
Set to "0" if not used.
codice_produttore
Manufacturer’s code. Has to be the same as the Manufacturers table.
tipo_listino *
Price list type, alphanumeric, maximum 4 characters.
Set to "STD" if not used.
categoria
Set to "PIAS" for tiles or "ARRE" for furnishing elements.
cod_valuta *
Currency code, alphanumeric, maximum 4 characters.
Set to "Euro" if not used.
descrizione
Item’s description, alphanumeric, maximum 80 characters.
fornitore
Manufacturer’s description, alphanumeric, maximum 80 characters.
collezione
Collection the item belongs to, alphanumeric, maximum 40 characters.
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desc_serie
Series the item belongs to, alphanumeric, maximum 40 characters.
in_produzione
Set to "YES" if the item is still produced by the Manufacturer; "NO" differently (old items has to be left in the application
database in case you want to re-open old project in the future). Alphanumeric, maximum 4 characters.
tipo_formato
Description of the geometry of the tile, alphanumeric, maximum 8 characters. ("RETT", "ESAG", "OTTA", "TRIA", "TRAP",
"QTTO", ”ROMB”, "PENTDX", "PENTSX")
FORMAT TYPE
DESCRIPTION
RETT
Rectangle
ESAG
Hexagon
OTTA
Octagon
TRIA
Triangle
TRAP
Trapezium
QTTO
Quadrotto
ROMB
Rhombus (diamond)
PENTDX
Pentagon right
PENTSX
Pentagon left
formato
Item format expressed in millimeters, alphanumerical, maximum 32 characters.
Ex.: "200x200" ; "400x400x100"
In case of "ESAG","OTTA","TRIA","TRAP","QTTO" format types, the third dimension is the length of the oblique side
peso_unitario
Item weight per single unit, expressed in kilograms, numerical, maximum 2 decimals separated by dot (.).
nrpz_confezione
Number of pieces per pack, integer.
unita_misura
Sale unit measure for the item, alphanumerical, maximum 4 characters. ("NR","PZ","MQ","ML")
MEASURE UNIT
DESCRIPTION
NR
Number ≡ PZ
PZ
Piece ≡ NR
MQ
Square Meter
ML
Linear Meter
data_genlist
Price list generation date, format DD-MM-YYYY.
Ex.: "24-02-2002".
data_declist0
Date the price list is effective from, format DD-MM-YYYY.
Ex.: "12-05-2002".
cod_listino0
Price list code, alphanumeric, maximum 16 characters. (there can be multiple pricelists available in the Appliocation’s database)
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esente_iva0
“SI” if VAT does not affect the item, “NO” if VAT has to be calculated, alphanumeric, maximum 2 characters.
aliquota_iva0
VAT rate, numerical, 1 decimal place maximum, separated by a dot (.).
prezzo_base00
primary price, double.
prezzo_base01
secondary price, double.
Set to "0" if not used.
prezzo_base02
Third price, double.
Set to "0" if not used.
tab_sco_agg0
Discounts or surcharge table, alphanumeric, maximum 80 characters.
This field contains a list of discounts (or price increase) the user can refer to at the project level and at the level of a single
estimate record.
The field can contain up to 10 values, each one separated by a semi-colon (;). Every value, even if it is integer, should be written
as a real number, that is to say with its integer and decimal components (e.g. the whole number 15 should be written 15.0).
The character separating the decimal portion from the integer in every number is the dot (.). Surcharge is different that discount
as it is a negative number. See the following example:
“0.0;5.0;10.0;15.0;20.0;-5.0;-10.0;”
TIPO PREZZO
SCONTO O AGGRAVIO
0.0
No discount
5.0
5% discount
10.0
10% discount
15.0
15% discount
20.0
20% discount
-5.0
5% surcharge
-10.0
10% surcharge
If you do not want to use this table, set the value "0.0".
(*): The fields marked with an asterisk have no effect on the program; it is necessary to enter them for compatibility with the
structure of the record-tracing, but their contents are not used.
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Chapter 8: TouchFly module
TouchFly: available in Ultimate version
TouchFly is an optional module, hence you could not have it available in your version. You can
check if it is available by selecting the command TouchFly Editor, available in the Home section,
Catalogue group of the Ribbon. If the editor opens, this means that you already purchased the
module. If it does not, you need to purchase it as an additional module for your Application: you can do it at any time, as for
any additional module.
Contact Maticad in order to be given prices and conditions, and remember that you can try TouchFly for a limited time before
deciding: ask your sales representative for this option.
What can I do with TouchFly?
Complete (extend) the Application libraries
You can extend the catalogues you regularly downloaded in the Live! page, adding images (such as the photographs of the
collections available in the catalogue), PDF files (the catalogues of the collections, pricelists, technical sheets, etc..) and 360°
Panoramas.
Especially PDF and images can really complete your catalogue in order to have available all information you need while in the
sales as well as in the installation process.
We will call those catalogues you have customized adding your own information extended catalogues, in order to distinguish
them from the standard ones you downloaded from Maticad Cloud.
Share and Visualize the extended libraries on the iPAD
If you want to be able to browse the extended catalogues in your iPAD (e.g. while walking together with the customer in the
Showroom, or even getting out to the customer’s premises), you can install the free iPAD App and synchronize the DomuS3D®
extended catalogue on it.
In this way you will always carry with you images, prices, items details and even the projects you made for him/her, as the 360°
panoramas will allow you to let the customer seeing your projects.
Share and Visualize the extended libraries on Touch Screens in my Showroom
If you want to browse the extended catalogues on other PC’s of your showroom (even without DomuS3D® installed, even on
touch screens) , you can install the TouchFly visualizer for PC (Windows 7 or later), and synchronize it with your Application.
You will soon learn how to synchronize the TF visualizer.
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Create multi-room panoramas
TouchFly editor also allows you to create interlaced panoramas, where you can link several 360° Panoramas each other.
Moreover, you can add items information (as JPG images) by placing hotspots on the material, so that you can point and click
the hotspot and open the material technical detail.
Using the Editor
How to customize (extend) an existing catalogue
In the Home section of the Ribbon, select command TouchFly Editor available in the Catalogue group.
You will open the Editor page, that allows you to control the libraries you have already installed. Section A
of the editor allows you to specify the manufacturer and/or collection you want to assign the extended
information for. If you specify the Manufacturer only, the information will be seen everywhere in the
catalogue. If you specify Manufacturer + Collection, the information will be located in that collection only. As you can see in
section A you have 4 different levels (for tiles) down to the single item: in case you select an item, the extended information
will be see just when you open that item .
Section B allows you to decide which kind of information you want to add to the extended catalogue: you can add images, PDF
files, and 360° Panoramas. Those information will be see both on iPAD and PC visualizer. Videos and links will be available just
on the PC visualizer.
Once you select the extended information type in section B, you can start importing the new files: section C allows you to
browse for the new file, locate and import it in the Application database. Section D allows you to provide a preview image for
that information (D is not mandatory, and if missing the visualizer will use a default preview image).
If you want to see the result of the extended information directly in DomuS3D® you can open the integrated visualizer. Select
TouchFly command (very near the Editor command you formerly selected). Browse down to the collection/item you specified
and you will see the image gallery and/or PDF you recently added (In the next image you can see the image gallery. Double
click a preview in order to see the image full screen).
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Extended 360° Panoramas
In the B section of the Editor, select the group called 3D Panorama. In the C section select the folder where you saved the 360°
Panorama (use D section if you want to assign a small image preview to that panorama)
Once the Panorama has been imported you’ll see it available in the panoramas list.
You can use this button if you want to immediately share this panorama through DomuS3D.Box App (see also Chapter
6, Share section).
You can use this button if you want to add item details images to specific items available in the panorama. You will then
access a mask where you can rotate the scene, in order to focus on the item you want to refer to:
Click the right mouse button on the item (in this case the floor tile), and select command Add hotspot. In this way you can
select the hotspot color, and the image you want to merge to the 360° Panorama by clicking that point.
Once defined the item details image (or whichever graphics you want), any time you click the hotspot in the panorama, you
will pop-up the graphic details (as you can see in this image). Click over the image in order to close it and return to panorama.
Connect Panoramas each other
Sometimes it is useful to connect more scenes (panoramas) each other: this is the case when you want the user to see the
project from different points of view, or when you want to merge more rooms in the same panorama. TouchFly editor allows
you to do that.
First of all, open the same mask you saw in the previous paragraph. Click the + button in order to load new panoramas.
The next image refers to 2 panoramas to be linked together.
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The first icon (top-left) refers to the first panorama you imported: currently it is the starting panorama (and, still, the only one).
The second one refers to the latest you have loaded, and it is still unlinked. In fact, the small icon you see on the topleft corner of the preview image, tells you that currently the panorama has not been connected with any other scene.
In order to connect it, click and open the first panorama (the one you want to start from), then click the left mouse button on
the preview image of the second one (the disconnected one) and drop it in the central scene; release the mouse pointer just
in the position where you want to place the doorway to the second scene (Remember to do the vice versa too, in order to be
able to come back to the first scene).
The result will be similar to this one:
Here you can see that this icon
refers to hotspot that opens the item details image, while this icon
point that allows you to enter the second scene you have loaded.
Now you have a multi-room (2 scenes) panorama.
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Share the extended catalogues
Create a playlist
You can share every part of the catalogue you want: it can be the full catalogue, rather than just a part of it (e.g., some
collections, the ones you want to show to a specific customer in his premises). The Playlist tool allows you to create multiple
sets of data you can refer to while synchronizing your devices (nevertheless it is an iPad or a PC visualizer). You can create as
many Playlists as you want/need, and decide which one to synchronize time by time.
In order to create or modify your Playlist, select command Services, in the Catalogue group, Home section
of the Ribbon. You will open the Playlist panel:
Assign a name to the Playlist, select the part(s) of your catalogue you want to add to the playlist, and click the
button. In a
few seconds the Application will calculate the size of the Playlist (this is an important info to know, especially when sharing the
catalogue with the iPad visualizer, as the iPad may have limited free space on disk).
Create even more Playlists and save them: you will not loose disk space on the Application’s computer, as the Playlist is just a
reference to existing catalogues. Finally, start the service from your computer, by clicking the play
button. (also check that
the given port is available and open for DomuS3D®. Ask your IT manager about it, in case of malfunctions). You’re now ready
to open the visualizer and synchronize the extended catalogues on it. In the next paragraph we will see how to synchronize the
iPad TouchFly visualizer.
Synchronize a Playlist on your iPad
Download the free App TouchFly from the Maticad area of the AppStore, and install it on your iPad; check that the iPad is
connected in WiFi to the same Local Area Network (LAN) where the PC with the Playlist is available. Finally, check that the
service on the PC is running (ref. previous paragraph).
As you open the App you find the following welcome page:
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Click the icon on the left, named: Tap here to connect to a DomuS3D® server running on the local network. You will
enter the login mask: leave the default username and password, and click Login button (see next image).
Next step is to select the server (if more than one) to synchronize your iPad from. In the following image you can see that there
are 2 available DomuS3D® servers in the LAN. You may have just 1 in case you have a single license, and it should be the name
of your computer.
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Once selected the computer, you will access the Playlist panel, where you can see all the Playlists available on the selected PC.
Select the one you want to synchronize with, and click Reload.
Note: if you modify/update the content of a Playlist in the PC, and reload it in the iPad by synchronizing to the same Playlist,
the iPad will be updated with the new content.
Note: if you synchronize to a different Playlist, TouchFly will remove the old Playlist in the iPad, and install just the new one.
So, this is to say that you can’t have more than one Playlist at the same time in the iPad.
Browsing the catalogue in TouchFly for iPad
Once the synchronization of the Playlist is complete, the home page opens on the synchronized catalogue; at the top-center
of the screen, the 2 buttons allow you to switch from the tile to the 3d Elements view.
In the next image you can see the Tiles view.
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In the next image you can see the 3D objects (also called Furnishing elements) view.
Tap the purple filter button in order to select the Manufacturer you want to focus on; if you click the arrow on the right position
of the cell, you can refine your selection also by collection and format.
If you tap the home button, all filters will be cleared and you will see all the catalogue again.
As soon as you tap an item in the list, a pop-up will appear showing you most relevant details, such as item code, description,
collection name, format, price (if any in the DomuS3D® database), … together with the item image preview.
At the bottom of the pop-up window, you have the opportunity of entering the image gallery section, rather that the PDF
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section or the 360° Panoramas section (if any).
Basket: the way you save needed items
TouchFly gives you the opportunity of making a note of the items your customers want to focus on. You can create many
baskets, name them as you need, and fill them with the items from the synchronized catalogue you want to recall later on
(could be the items your customer chose while walking with you in the Showroom, or the ones he/she wants you to use in the
DomuS3D® design , calculation and rendering, …)
In the next image you can see the Basket entry point, where you can choose the basket you want to work with; it is the one
with the yellow star on the right side of the cell. Click on a different star in order to enable a different basket.
Each item can be added to the currently enabled basket (or removed) by tapping the button that appears on the details tab of
the item pop-up.
The working basket (or all baskets if “Apply to all baskets” is selected) can be uploaded to the server (DomuS3D® Application)
or emptied by tapping the corresponding operation button. If merge option is selected the application baskets content will be
merged with the server baskets content, otherwise the server content will be overwritten after the upload operation; similarly
the application content will be overwritten after a download operation.
Each basket can be renamed by tapping its label.
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Chapter 9: Modular Furnishing Module
Note: at the moment of writing this manual, DomuS3D® is integrated with 2 different modular furnishing
systems: IMOS-Net (by IMOS, Germany) and ArredoCAD (by Dinamica S.r.l., Italy). This chapter refers to
ArredoCAD. Get in contact with Maticad if you need to use a different technology, among those available for integration.
The way it works
Starting from Pegasus version, DomuS3D® gives you the opportunity of creating modular furnishing elements. In order to do
that, indeed, you need to process and install a third party technology (optional and not included in the standard DomuS3D®
price).
Once completed the installation, DomuS3D® Pegasus will allow you to use such software inside the DomuS3D® window,
benefiting of the modular furnishing technology in order to create compositions to be immediately used inside DomuS3D®.
So, in a way, you will still keep on using 2 different software, but the real advantage for you is that they are combined in a
single design tool, DomuS3D®.
Even if running within the same application, they are still 2 different software; for this reason for any technical support related
to the modular furnishing system you need to refer to that software manufacturer instead of Maticad.
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Install and register the additional module
Download the setup DVD
In order to obtain the ArredoCAD integrated module, connect to the following link: www.dinamicasoft.com/DomuS3D.
When asked, profile yourself with following credentials:
-
Username:
Password:
DomuS3D
ArredoCAD
You will have access to the download area:
Specify your Company name, and your e-mail address (this will help Dinamica in order to provide you a 30 days TRIAL access
code). Then, download the following files, and save them in the same folder:
DVD_ARREDOCAD_PEGASUS.part1.exe
DVD_ARREDOCAD_PEGASUS.part2.rar
Once completed both downloads, click the first one (DVD_ARREDOCAD_PEGASUS.part1.exe) in order to start installation
procedure. When the installation procedure will be complete, the first time you open ArredoCAD in DomuS3D® you will be
asked to register the license: type in the registration code if you already purchased the software, or contact Dinamica if you
want to ask for a 30 days trial code.
Note: prior starting software license registration process, you need to connect to the Internet in order to operate.
How to use the integrated module in DomuS3D®
Launch the integrated module
In order to launch the ArredoCAD integrated module, first open or create a project. From the Layout window,
open the TOOLS section of the Ribbon, and click the New composition button.
Select Dinamica generic catalogue: ArredoCAD will start operating in a dedicated window, called Modular
Furniture, and let you create your own composition, providing that you will find the same layout you already designed in
DomuS3D®, including references to doors and windows that already have been placed in the layout.
ArredoCAD is already equipped with generic catalogues allowing you to create kitchens, bathroom furnishing, living rooms,
bedrooms, wardrobes, etc…
Note: we suggest you to align the cabinets in the correct position, so that you will automatically find them in the right place
when importing the furniture in the project.
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Import modular composition in project
Once you have completed the composition in the ArredoCAD environment, you can import it in the DomuS3D® project by
clicking the button Insert composition, available in the Ribbon. You will automatically switch to the layout window, where you
will see the group of cabinets in the same location you placed them in.
Change the composition
You cannot modify the composition while in the Layout or Navigation window. If you want to change back the composition,
you need to reopen it in the integrated module. You can do that by clicking the right mouse button on the composition, and
select command: Open. This procedure will not work if you share the project package on a DomuS3D® that’s not equipped with
the same integration.
Training, contacts and support
Learning how to use Arredocad
You can learn how to use the integrated modular furnishing module connecting to the following page:
http://www.arredocad.com/arredocad_videos
There you will find useful videos that will allow you composing your first kitchen using the generic catalogue.
Company details
ArredoCAD is produced by Dinamica S.r.l., located in:
Via degli Olmi 16/4
61122 Pesaro (PU), Italy
Web site: www.dinamicasoft.com
Registered mail: [email protected]
Support
We remind you that the integrated module by Dinamica is not technically supported by Maticad. For this reason you need to
contact Dinamica itself, using following references:
Telephone (English and Italian languages supported): +39-0721-26465
Email (English and Italian languages supported): [email protected]
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Part 4
The Sample Project
In this pragraph we will guide you creating your first project in DomuS3D®. We will start from the very beginning of the project
creation process, listing and detailing all steps to follow in order to achieve the result you find in the next image (advanced
rendering quality):
It is a standard bathroom, with a small wall as a separator between the shower box (next image, in navigation quality) + toilet
area and the entrance, where a double washbasin has been placed.
The unit measure we use is the default one coming with the European setup procedure, that’s to say centimeters. Before
starting let us say that there are more ways to get to the same result while designing the project.
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Consider our walk-through just as a first reference for you, and expect that in the future you’ll achieve the same goal even in
different (and sometimes quicker) ways.
Layout
Here it is the layout of the project, where you can notice dimensions and objects’ position.
1.
2.
Creating the project:
a. Select command Create room, in the Home section of the Ribbon, or New from Live! page.
b. Fill in the project details (in this mask the only mandatory field is the customer name; we suggest you to
write something with sense here, in order to better identify the project later on). Click OK.
We will design the room in free hand mode:
a. Click the left mouse button everywhere in the desktop, in order to fix the first point. Let’s suppose we start
from the lower-right corner; so we’ll click the mouse in the lower-right region of the desktop.
b. Click
(O) keyboard button in order to enable the orthogonal mode, that allows you to exactly draw
horizontal and vertical walls (or select “Orthogonal” in the Application status bar). While in this mode, the
mouse gives the direction where you want to draw the wall; so you just need to type in the wall’s length,
and confirm it with Enter keyboard button. We’re going to draw the wall that will contain the door, so we’ll
move the mouse on the left side of the desktop, and we’ll type 196,8; finally Enter keyboard button (note:
once defined the direction with the mouse, leave it and don’t move it again while typing).
While you are drawing you can Zoom the scene with the wheel mouse button, or you can Pan the desktop
keeping the wheel mouse button pressed, and moving the mouse.
You can also click the right mouse button and select command Undo point if you need to rollback last wall.
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c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
Move the mouse towards the top, and type 160 in order to draw left-vertical wall. Press Enter keyboard
button to confirm. Then, move the mouse towards the right, type 82 e press Enter: we’re drawing the small
wall that will divide washbasins area from the shower-box area. Do the same for the missing walls, apart
for the last one.
You can close the layout, in fact, by clicking the left mouse button over the first corner you draw, or even
by clicking the right mouse button anywhere in the desktop and selecting command Close.
Save the project immediately, by clicking
+
keyboard buttons, or the Ribbon command Save
.
Say we want to modify the walls’ height: click the right mouse button over any one of the internal walls,
and select command Height. Type 270 and click OK: project’s height is now 2 meters and 70 cm.
Click the right mouse button over the upper wall (the one that wil contain the window) and select command
Width. Type 30 and click OK.
Doors and windows
Let’s place the door and the window:
h. Select the FURNISHING ELEMENTS section in the Components
window; select ARCHITECTURAL level, DOORS or DYNAMIC DOORS
level. You will see, now, a list of available doors to choose from.
i.
Use the cursor on the right side of the list in order to scroll down
the doors list, and click on Other results if you want to see more
doors.
j.
Drag the door you want with the left mouse button, move it on the
project desktop, and release the mouse pointer.
k. Move the mouse over the internal wall you want to place the door
in, and you’ll see that the door automatically rotates aligning to
that wall.
l.
Finally move the door over the bottom wall, type 18 in order to
specify exact distance between the door and the corner. Click Enter
keyboard button. If you want to switch the dimension field to type
in, use Tab
keyboard button while still moving the door.
m. Double click on the door in order to open door properties window : here you can adjust door dimensions,
as well as decide if having the right/left handle and many other properties.
n.
o.
Do the same process in order to place a window: go back in the selection of the FURNISHING ELEMENTS
section of the Components window; select ARCHITECTURAL level, WINDOWS or DYNAMIC WINDOWS level.
You will see, now, a list of available windows to choose from.
Place the window the same way you did for the door; finally double click the window and set following
properties:
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Let’s save project by selecting the button on top of the Ribbon (
) or clicking the keyboard buttons:
+
.
Placing objects
3.
Let’s place the furnishing elements:
a. Again, in the FURNISHING ELEMENTS section of the Components window, search for BATHROOM level, WC
level and choose an item of your choice.
Note: as you’ll get deeper with the internal and downloaded libraries, you can also use the Search field in order to
quicker find the item you want to work with.
b.
c.
d.
As soon as you have chosen the toilet you want to use, drag&drop it in the project the same way you did
for the door and window.
When you move the object in the layout, you can even release the mouse; note that the object
automatically aligns to the wall you’re siding with the mouse as soon as the mouse pointer stands over the
internal wall.
If you drop the object clicking the left mouse button, the element’s position may not be so accurate: that’s
why we prefer align the object to the wall with the mouse, then leave the mouse and type the distance
between the object and the corner. Type 45 and click Enter (or press
other distance).
keyboard button to switch to the
If you have misplaced the object: click the right mouse button over it and select command Move if you want to relocate
it, Delete if you want to get rid of it, Properties if you want to access object properties mask, where you can change,
for example, the elevation from the floor:
e.
f.
g.
Do the same steps in order to add the bidet and the radiator.
When you add the shower tray, we suggest you to temporarily disable the automatic alignment mode. You
can do that by clicking the keyboard Spacebar button once, while still moving the object on the desktop
(clicking it again means to enable the mode again).
Pick the shower tray object from the Components window and, while you are moving it over the layout,
rotate it as you need using keyboard buttons
or . If you click the
keyboard button (P stands for
Point; click it even many times, see images in next page) you can drag the object from a different snap:
select the one that is easier to be used depending on the object you have selected.
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h.
Complete the shower by placing the Shower head (download it from the Live! page if you don’t have one)
or a Shower (in TAPS AND FITTINGS level).
Let’s save again the project by selecting the button on top of the Ribbon (
+
4.
) or clicking the keyboard buttons:
.
Virtual navigation (in 3D):
a.
b.
It is now time to see how the project looks like in 3D: that means to navigate the scene.
Click the Ribbon button Navigate, or the right mouse button and select command Virtual
Navigation.
You can move just with your mouse, combining the use of the 3 buttons you have available. Here’s how
to move:
Use left mouse button in order to rotate and tilt the point of view in all directions.
Use right mouse button in order to move forward and back, or to shift left/right.
Use wheel mouse button to increase/decrease elevation of the point of view from the floor.
Try navigating the scene and check if everything’s in the right place.
5.
Automatically change object elevation:
a. We now have to place a Tap over the bidet. Leave the Navigation window open, and switch back to the
layout window. As usual we go, first, to the Components window in order to select the tap to use in our
project.
b. We’ll follow the same steps we already learnt, but before releasing the tap we need to specify that we
want it at the correct elevation, so that it will lay exactly over the bidet. But what’s the exact height of the
bidet? Of course we do not know it, so the Application will help us defining correct elevation. Let’s see how
in next step.
c.
While you are still moving the object over the layout, select
keyboard button (H stands for Height): you
can see that the object temporarily is in a stand-by status, as the Application is now asking you to specify
the object in the layout you want the tap to stand on: for this purpose, select one of the lines of the bidet
with the left mouse button. Now the tap has the correct elevation from the flor, and you can drop it in the
correct position.
d.
If the grid snap does not allow you to place the tap in the correct position, click
e.
Snap status bar button ( ) in order to temporarily enable/disable the grid snap (also remember that you
can zoom in/out using the wheel mouse button, and Pan the desktop by keeping pressed the wheel mouse
button)
Go back in the Navigation window, and check if result is the correct one.
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f.
If elevation is still not correct, you can click the right mouse button over the tap, select Properties and
manually change elevation.
Let’s save project by selecting the button on top of the Ribbon (
6.
) or clicking the keyboard buttons:
+
.
Recessed (self-drilling) washbasin:
a. Look back at the image of the bathroom you have in the first page of this tutorial: we’ll now create the
countertop for the washbasins.
b. Let’s draw the countertop first. In the layout window, open the CAD section of the Ribbon.
Select command Rectangle, so that you can draw a rectangular shape. Manually draw the
first point of the rectangle with the mouse, pointing at the lower left corner of the room),
and type the exact dimensions (50x160 centimetres). Then press Enter keyboard button.
c.
You can convert a CAD 2D shape into an object by clicking the right mouse button over it (on the line) and
selecting command Create object. Specify following details:
d.
Point the washbasin you want to choose by searching (in the Search field of FURNISHING ELEMENT’s
Components window) the text “recessed” or even “self-drilling”. Those items will automatically create the
hole in the countertop.
e.
Drag the washbasin, and drop it over the countertop. Before releasing, indeed, remember to click the
keyboard button in order set the correct elevation of the washbasin from the floor, by pointing the
countertop.
Go back to the Navigation window in order to see if everything is fine. It may be possible that you
still do not see the washbasin: in this case you can ask the Application to update the view by clicking
the Update view button in the Ribbon .
If something’s wrong, it is possible that the washbasin’s elevation is not correct, or the washbasin you
have chosen is not a self-frilling one.
In order to add the second washbasin, click the right mouse button over the existing washbasin and select
command Copy. Locate the second one in the correct position: Note: don’t worry about the elevation of
the second one. As you copied the first one, elevation has been inherited with the correct value.
Complete bathroom’s object by placing the mirror, taps and all other accessories you need in order to
complete the scene.
f.
g.
h.
i.
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Always remember to save the project time to time by selecting the button on top of the Ribbon (
keyboard buttons:
+
) or clicking the
.
Tile the floor
7.
Floor:
a.
b.
c.
Go to Navigation window, and choose a point of view where you can see the room from inside, and floor
is visible.
Open LAYINGS section in the Components window, search for “Staggered”.
Select scheme called Staggered 3 (this scheme randomly mixes 3 different formats. In the lower part of the
d.
Components window select the Floor icon (
) and check that destination is set to “Current room”.
Also check grout value and colour before proceeding.
Drag the scheme and Drop it on the room Floor
e.
This scheme is just a neutral one (tiles are still missing), and we’ll soon replace neutral tiles (represented
by those strong colours in the scheme as you can see in the next image) with the real ones. These schemes
are parametric and dynamic, so their format will automatically adjust depending on the tiles format you’re
going to choose. Now get to the TILES section of the Components window, search the tiles you want by
browsing collections, manufacturers and/or formats (alternatively, if you already know the name or the
code, keep on using the Search field in order to quicker find it).
f.
Enable “Change similar tiles” mode
, then drag the tile image and drop it on one of the scheme slots.
Release left mouse button in order to drop the tile.
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g.
h.
i.
Do the same also for the missing tiles (second and third) being careful of dropping the tile on the remaining
missing colours (slots). In the Sample Project we have applied the same tile to the 3 slots, in order to take
advantage of random repetition, but you can select different tiles and different formats with this scheme
(while other schemes may force you to select compatible formats).
Change the grout on the floor by clicking the right mouse button over the floor, and selecting command
Change grout.
If you want to move the tiles starting position, move the point of view in order to focus the new starting
point. Click the right mouse button over the floor and select command Modify tiling position. Finally, move
the green ball over the new starting point, and confirm this choice by clicking the left mouse button over
it.
Let’s save project by selecting the button on top of the Ribbon (
) or clicking the keyboard buttons:
+
.
Tile walls
a. In the Navigation window, move the point of view in order to see the part of the room with the countertop
(remember to enter the room; if you were out of the room, you could tile the exterior walls…).
b. Open the TILES section of the Components window, and search the tile you want to apply to the wall.
c.
d.
Select the walls icon (
), so that the Application knows that you want to tile walls. Check the grout
value and colour. In H. rows field, say 4: this is the number of tiles that you want to place in the first section
(also called strip) of the wall. In the Destination field select “Surface” (in this way Application will apply tiles
just to this wall, and not to all the walls of the room). In the Align field select Centre. Now you are ready to
drag the tile and drop it over the wall siding the countertop. If you’ve correctly followed these steps, you
should see a first strip containing 4 tiles.
Do the same in order to add 2 decorative tiles over the first one (Check that the Strip field is set to New),
and another 4 tiles identical to the ones of the first strip. Any time you create a new strip, you should see
on the wall the height the strip starts from and ends to, including grout.
If you made a mistake, you can roll-back operation deleting last strip. Do this using this button
The result you have achieved should be similar to the one available in next image.
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Let’s save project by selecting the button on top of the Ribbon (
e.
f.
) or clicking the keyboard buttons:
+
.
Do the same in order to tile the intermediate walls between the countertop and the shower-box (we have
used 10 tiles, so you have to type this value in the H.row field. Moreover you should move the point of view
in order to see any wall before tiling it). For your information, in the small wall near the countertop we
have right-aligned the tiles, so that cuts will be driven to the corner.
Do the same for the door’s wall too
Let’s save project by selecting the button on top of the Ribbon (
+
.
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g.
Now move the point of view so that you can see the wall siding the toilet: repeat same steps as before,
left-aligning the tiles (use a different tile colour in order to better distinguish walls while navigating).
Let’s tile the shower-box corner:
h. Move the point of view so that so that you can see the shower-box and the corner between the walls as
you can see in next image. If the shower-box does not allow you to operate, go to the layout window, click
the right mouse button over it and select Hide (remember to show it again when done).
i.
Go back in the Navigation window, click the right mouse button in the corner, and select command CornerTile shower-box corner.
j.
k.
Select the tiles to be used in the left and right panel of the shower-box, set the grout value and colour.
Finally check the left and right panel dimensions, depending on the size of the shower-box you have chosen
(see image next page).
If the right panel has the same size of the left one, you can check Same as left control. Differently set the
correct panel size.
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Let’s save project by selecting the button on top of the Ribbon (
) or clicking the keyboard buttons:
+
.
Changing walls material
8.
Walls have a specific material in the section that is not tiled (the upper one). Let’s proceed assigning it:
a. Go to the Navigation window.
Open MATERIALS section of the Components window, and select Masonry level, Cemento “Intonaco
cappuccino” (or any other of your choice). Drag and drop it on the wall you are currently looking at; repeat
this operation for all the highlighted walls that you can see in the next image.
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Note: if “Intonaco cappuccino” is not available in the Application library, you can download it in the Catalogues
section of the Live! page Ref. to CataloguesMATERIALS ADVANCED RENDERINGMATICAD, add materials
to cart and proceed with download (refer to Catalogues Download chapter at the beginning of this guide in
order to learn how to download new libraries).
b.
c.
Once finished with the Intonaco cappuccino, search for a new material called resina (resin).
In the Navigation window move the point of view in order to see the countertop, select “Resina beige
semilucida” material, drag&drop it on the countertop visible faces (top and front).
Let’s save project by selecting the button on top of the Ribbon (
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+
.
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Rendering the scene with V-Ray
9.
Choosing the point of view for the rendering: in case of very small rooms, such as the one of the example, it is really
difficult (sometimes impossible) to render the full scene while remaining inside the room. A first option you have, is
to hide the wall so that you can remain outside the room and render it from there: open the Options window (see
Paragraph titled Properties panel in Initial operations and configurations settings), get to the Navigation and
Rendering section, and disable Show external walls control. As you find the correct point of view, save it by clicking
F3 keyboard button, or My Views command in Navigation section of the Ribbon; click Save current.
10. Unfortunately the solution we gave you in point n. 9 does not work in our project: doors and windows, in fact, still
remain in the rendered scene. And, also, you cannot hide them the way you already saw for the shower-box, as doors
and windows are special objects. So in this case we’ll use the following trick: save the project and, JUST FOR THE
TIME OF RENDERING THE SCENE, move the wall containing the door towards the bottom. In this way the room will
be longer than in real life. This is just a trick you will use in order to be able to render the scene the best way. Once
launched the rendering job, you’ll exit the project without saving it. In order to extend the room, click the right mouse
button over the internal wall, and select command Move. Extend the room as you can see in the following image (the
camera icon allows you to see where the point of view has been placed).
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11. Setting up the scene illumination: let’s create a rendering sample, in order to see how the scene looks like. In the
Navigation section of the Ribbon, select command Full image. Once opened the rendering mask, select the Exposure
control button (should be set on Automatic), then Generate preview (it may be useful to increase preview resolution
to 240x180). This procedure forces the Application to automatically calculate the exposure of the room considering
the light sources; it is the same procedure you follow every time you take a photo with a digital camera (and the
camera does it for you, automatically). If you think resolution is still not enough, click Generate preview again, or
adjust Exposure value, available in the properties list on the right. In our situation, the area very near the washbasins
may appear a bit dark, ‘cause of the small wall of the shower-box. So, as we need to adjust the scene a bit, click
Cancel so that the Application will not start the rendering process. First, move the light a bit: click the right mouse
button on the light and select Modify command. Pick the light clicking the left mouse button in the centre, and move
it as you see in this image. Finally, double click the light with the left mouse button, and set the light properties as
you can see in the next image (do not copy the position in plan, as your project may have different coordinates).
Now open the Natural light properties mask: if you are in the Layout window, the button is in the Virtual Navigation
section of the Ribbon, and it is called Natural light. If you are in Navigation window, the name of the button is the
same, available in Navigation section of the Ribbon.
Set the Natural light properties as you see in the following image:
12. Setting up rendering parameters: now you’re ready to launch the rendering process. While in the Navigation window
(and in the correct point of view), select command Full image; click the Exposure control button (should still be set
on Automatic), and in type section choose Photographic. In Color Mapping section set type to Linear and Bright
multiplier to 0.80: this will reduce the over-bright effect you have near the window. The correct Exposure value for
this scene is 8,3 (See next image). You’re done: click OK and start rendering the scene.
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Some benchmarks now: we have generated a Full HD image (1920x1080 pixels) with medium quality rendering
parameters in 11 min. 31 secs.. Computer was equipped with Intel Core i7 3960X 3,3 GHz, 16 GB Ram on board
(Graphic card is not involved in rendering, unless using V-Ray RT).
You can see the rendering result in the next image.
Note: if you want to switch-on the neon effect light, drag&drop over it the material called “Autoilluminante” (which
means self-illuminated. By the way, you can rename the material name as you want: double click over it and change
the name). Finally: you can see an image outside the window. It is called background. We have set it while in
Navigation window, by clicking the Background button available in the Navigation section of the Ribbon.
Download Sample Project
Have you done the same? If you report some differences between the image you rendered and the one you can see in this
page, why not comparing projects? Download our version with following link (or write it on a browser and click Enter). Then,
extract the project file from the ZIP, and import it with command: FileImport/ExportImport project package.
http://exchange.maticad.it/Pub/Sample_Project.zip
Hope you enjoyed the Sample Project. Please report us if this has been useful for you, or ask more Sample Projects by writing
your comments to: [email protected].
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Part 5
Appendix
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Introduction
In this section you can find solutions to the most frequently asked questions.
In case you have a problem with your application, try checking this section before contacting the Support Team.
FAQ have been divided in sections so that it’s easier for you to locate the correct group.
Installation/Upgrade
Issue
Is it necessary to insert the key
before installing DomuS3D®?
ERROR during system component
installation
Hardware key update using V2C file
How to save C2V key file
Is DomuS3D® compatible with 64 bit
operative system
Can I install DomuS3D® on a Mac ?
Backup/Restore database. How to
save a backup from DomuS3D®
How can I transfer data from my old
PC to a new one
I have updated an older version to
Pegasus, but the installation is
empty: there isn’t project, tiles, …
Solution
No, it is not. First install DomuS3D®, at the end of installation connect the USB Key,
as DomuS3D® installs the up-to-date driver for the key
Restart your PC and try again. Be sure to login the PC with Administrator privileges.
If the problem is related to SQL-Server, and you're sure that no other software is
using SQL-Server, you can uninstall it (in Control Panel), and try again to install the
Application
Be sure your Key is plugged into the USB Port. Run "MATICAD-Key management"
from the "start" menu and select second tab "Apply License update". Browse the
PC and locate the v2c file. The update by clicking the "Apply Update" button
Be sure your Key is plugged into the USB Port. Run "MATICAD-Key management"
from the "start" menu. Click the "Collect information" button to save the c2v file
Yes: DomuS3D® is compatible with 32bit and 64 bit O.S.
DomuS3D® is not available as a native MAC Application. Indeed, it’s possible to
install DomuS3D® on MAC using a WindowsTM emulator, such as PARALLEL or
FUSION, or using WindowsTM on a bootcamp partition
Please ensure there is enough free space in your disk. Start the MAM (Maticad
Application Manager) software from the start menu and click the "Backup" button.
Select a folder where you want to save it and confirm to proceed. This backup is not
incremental, hence the restore feature will overwrite the Application data with the
one of the saved backup.
With the new Pegasus Standalone version, if you close the Application you can also
save the Application folder, as it contains all data you need to restore the program
on a new PC
Use Maticad Application Manager to save a complete Backup form the old PC, and
use again MAM to Restore it in the new PC
Try to import again the data from the old version: run "Maticad Application
Manager" from the start menu and select the "advanced" tab. Switch on "from the
previous old installation" setting and click the Import button. At the end of this
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How can I install the new version on
a new PC saving my old data?
procedure it is safe to import again the standard catalogue from installation DVD,
by running DomuS3D® and clicking the "Load catalogue" button from the Database
Group of the Ribbon. Select "Import.rar" from the <DVD>:\Import folder and
proceed importing
Install the new version on the old PC importing your database. As soon as finished
you can save a backup from the new installation version. Install only the last new
version into the new Pc and Restore the database.
Starting application
Issue
Error
starting
program on a MAC
ERROR: SQL Server
does not exist or
access denied
ERROR:
resource
library mismatch
Error:
Current
codepage
is
incompatible
Error: DomuS3D® CS
stops working starting
client with following
message
in
Components: Loading
progress
Your user seems to be
already connected. It
is impossible to open
a new session for this
user
DomuS3D® suddenly
stopped working
Sentinel Hasp Error
when
starting
software.
Error: missing dll
Solution
Try to switch off Coherence option
Try to check SQL Server services. Should be on and started
Could be a registry setting. There is a "Lang" key in the WindowsTM Registry that contains the
current language setting. Check the Registry by launching Regedit.exe. If you are running a 32 bit
Operating
System,
open
the
node:
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MATICAD\DOMUS3D\14.0\Lang.
If
you’re
running
a
64
bit
Operating
System,
open
node:
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\MATICAD\DOMUS3D\14.0\Lang.
Lang value is ENG, ITA, FRA, ESP, DEU, CZE, RUS, ROM, HEB, POR, HUN, GRE, SER, CRO, POL, ARA
Try to check your language settings. Your system language should match the language settings of
the installed database
There is a restriction network settings. Your window user cannot browse the shared folder for the
projects and catalogues available on the server
Maybe your DomuS3D® formerly wasn’t closed correctly. Try logging with the same username on
the PC where DomuS3D® crashed
This can be due to a lot of reasons. One of them can be the antivirus. Disconnect the network
cable, try to disable your antivirus for a while and try using DomuS3D® again. If this is the reason,
when enabling again the antivirus, exclude DomuS3D® folder from the antivirus operations
Be sure your key is plugged in the USB Port, and red light is on. If necessary, you can download upto-date
hardware
key
drivers
from
the
DomuS3D®
official
website
(http://www.domus3d.com/en/public_area/support_area/download.html) and update it.
Try to check your antivirus software. We suggest to exclude DomuS3D® folder from the scan
system
Database
Issue
Solution
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I cannot find my own tile from the
Components window
I cannot find all the tiles from the
component window
ODBC Error creating new tile
Backup/Restore database. How to
save a backup from DomuS3D®
I cannot find my item code from the
component window
Try to check format type. Components window shows rectangular tiles only. You
should use RETT format type for both rectangular and square tiles. Try searching
your tile with the advanced criteria available in command:
FileMenuDatabaseTilesShow
DomuS3D® automatically hide all the tiles out of production. You can change this
setting from the Application preferences (Options)
DomuS3D® does not allow to create tiles containing item codes that are already
present in the library for the same manufacturer. Change the item code and try
again
Please ensure there is enough free space in your disk. Start the MAM (Maticad
Application Manager) software from the start menu and click the "Backup" button.
Select a folder where you want to save it and confirm to proceed. This backup is not
incremental, hence the restore feature will overwrite the Application data with the
one of the saved backup.
With the new Pegasus Standalone version, if you close the Application you can also
save the Application folder, as it contains all data you need to restore the program
on a new PC
Try to find it out with the "Show" command from the Database group in the Ribbon.
(Tiles managementShow, Elements ManagementShow, …)
Live Page
Issue
We didn't receive any answer
regarding our catalogue requested
Login error
I lost my password
Installing downloaded items seems
not to work: green bar still appears
after tried to load them
Timeout error during downloading
catalogue
Solution
Maticad is not involved in the authorization process: the Manufacturers directly
manage your catalogue request. Contact directly the Company and ask for the
person who manages DomuS3D® to speed-up the process
Be sure you used the complete and correct email address and password. If you
forgot the password you can click the link click here to obtain a new one. Indeed, if
you need to change username you can make a new registration with a new email
address
Click the link Click here to obtain a new one
Close your DomuS3D®, go in the …\DomuS3D®\Import folder, and delete all files.
Open again the Application and try downloading again the catalogue
May depend on your connection speed. Try again, in case selecting less catalogues
so that your connection can afford the download size in MB
Project
Issue
How can I transfer my project to a
second installation?
How to make a copy of my project
How
to
create
bathtub/washbasin
a
built-in
Solution
Close and save your project (s). Select command File-Import-Export –Export project
packages from the Home menu. Select destination folder where to save it/them,
finally select the project(s) you want to export. On the second installation, select
command File-Import-Export –Import project package(s) and select the former files
Open it and select command File-Save as. Note that it is better to change "customer
name" and/or "description" in order to differentiate the projects
Try using "self drilling" object (search them in the SEARCH field available in the
Components window). When dropping the item, remember to use "H" key to
automatically adjust the item elevation with the one of the container object
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I cannot insert a window on a wall
How to set my company data and
logo in the blueprints
How to change color/finishing of an
object’s layer
Change tiling position to align floor
and wall grout
How to apply a background on a
virtual navigation
How to create a column wall
How to share a project on the iPad.
How to put an object in the plan with
a detailed position
How to draw a vertical or horizontal
line in the layout window
I cannot see my velux in the virtual
navigation
SQL Server Error when opening
Estimate window
How to hide furnishing elements
from virtual navigation and/or
rendering
Try to check the destination wall: is it a single one or it is divided in two walls? In
this case you can join them deleting the corner in the middle. Right click on it and
select command Delete
Click the Company detailed data button in the Application preferences mask
(FileOptions). Customize your data replacing the standard ones, or create new
Company with the New button
Select Material group in the Components window: pick up your material, drag and
drop it on the needed layer
Right click on floor and select Modify tiling position. Move the mouse cursor on the
walls tile corner, and click on it to align floor to this corner
Click the Background button in the Navigation group of the Ribbon. Refer to the
Navigation chapter to find more details
Refer to Chapter 1 to find more details
Select Save Panorama 360 button in the Navigation group of the Ribbon. Select
DomuS3D Box to send it by mail. Install the free App called DomuS3D.Box on the
tablet, then go the emails section, and click the Panorama image
Switch off Snap settings from the status bar. When moving the object, click the right
mouse button and choose Point+Delta option
While drawing, press "O" keyboard button in order to enable/disable the
Orthogonal snap settings (mood)
Could be a problem on the angle or the windows length. Go to the window
properties mask, try to change some values and check again in the Navigation
Try to check your tiles data. This failure may be caused by a wrong Number of tiles
in a box value. Has not to be 0 (1 is default, unless differently specified)
Right click on the object and select Hide command. This works only in Layout
window.
Tiling and Navigation
Issue
How to tile wall thickness on the
window
I'm applying a panel on the floor but
I see just a strip on the floor
How to manually rotate a tile
How to change starting point for the
virtual navigation window
Opening Virtual Navigation window
DomuS3D® stops working
Solution
It will be automatic if window position is external. Differently, enable Surface setting
before dropping the tile on the needed area
The panel setting is for Walls. Open it again, change its use to FLOOR, save it and try
tiling again
You can manually insert a single tile in the modify tiling window. Use the Add a tile
button in the Wall group of the Ribbon. Select the tile and press "P" keyboard
button to change dragging point and "K" & "L" to rotate tile
You can save your view using the button "My view" (or F3 shortcut) and "Save
current"
Check your graphic card driver and update it if necessary. If still is not enough, go to
the Application Properties mask (FileOptions) and reduce some quality and/or
effects in the Navigation pane (such as transparency, reflection, antialiasing …)
Rendering
Issue
I receive an Out Of Memory error
during rendering (usually in 32 bit
systems)
Solution
There is no more memory (RAM) available for the computer, as the size of the
project is too big for your computer. There are 2 possible solutions: try to launch
the rendering without opening the Navigation window (in the layout window, press
F3-Views Management, select view and click Rendering). This will save some
memory. If still it is not enough, try reducing material images size. In the Layout
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Wrong tiles color in the rendered
image: how to adjust it
Grey color on the sanitary ware: how
to adjust it
Rendering image is completely dark
How to create a stereoscopic
rendering
Dark image for a multi-room project
How to remove light source
reflection from the material
reflection
There is a black background outside
the window. How to adjust it
window, go to the Tools group of the Ribbon, select Stats button, and check the
biggest images this project is using: try to reduce them a bit
Try to check advanced material settings. Perhaps you forgot to apply advanced
material on your tile. Try to check your artificial light too. They has to be
photometric lights. Don't use physical/base light
Try to check advanced material settings. Perhaps you forgot to apply advanced
materials on your own tile, as it can reflect sanitary ware color too. This defect,
anyway, has been solved in later versions of the program
Try to change exposure value. Click the Photographic button in the advanced
rendering settings and change exposure. Also check if there is any light coming from
outside. Refer to Chapter 5 - Rendering
Switch on stereoscopic rendering from the advanced rendering settings (available
for mental ray® only)
Check your openings: doors, windows, ... open their properties mask: Emit diffuse
lighting should be on. You can increase light power with the multiplier control
Reduce Highlight reflection value from the material settings. If necessary you can
use "0" too
Increase the Max. Bounce Number from the advanced rendering settings
Unexpected shutdown
Issue
Application has stopped working
while I'm creating a project. Did I
loose my project?
Application has stopped working
opening Virtual navigation window
Application has stopped working
while opening Modify tiling window
ODBC ERROR: SQL-Server driver
Connection write send
Solution
If, very after project creation, you save it you’re safe. DomuS3D®, in fact,
automatically saves a backup copy of the project while you draw, step by step. So
next time you restart DomuS3D®, the Application will ask you if you want to restore
previous project version. You shouldn’t loose any work
Check your graphic card driver and update it if necessary. Also check the Application
Preferences (FileOptions) and disable some Navigation effects or antialiasing, or
low down the quality to intermediate levels
Check your graphic card driver and update it if necessary
The SQL-Server service may be entered a standby status. This is not due to
DomuS3D®. Restart your computer and start again the Application
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What’s new in Pegasus comparing to Antares: detailed list
Application interface: Ribbon and shortcuts
The Ribbon is new and Metro style compliant (Windows 8 and Office 2013). All icons have been redesigned for a better user
experience. Here are some samples.
•
Some buttons and commands have been moved
in order to create a better organization of the
command groups.
Together with the look&feel, a great piece of
news it the availability of Application shortcuts;
such opportunity will speed up the efficiency
while planning.
Live! page
The download engine has been empowered with a new module, that allows you to download single items; this opportunity
will speed up your activity when you’re missing an item, and you do not want to download (and wait for) the entire
collection/catalogue.
In Release 2 (scheduled at March 2014) Pegasus will provide an engine that allows the user to automatically download what’s
new for catalogues he/she wants to be kept up-to-date automatically.
Dividing a room
It is possible to divide an existing room in order to create inner walls. In this way you can place doors even in the inner walls.
Of course the single room will be divided in two rooms, hence the project will become a multi-room project. The dividing
procedure takes care of existing tiling on the former walls, trying to maintain them even in the new structure. You can find this
command in the Layout window: click the right mouse button in the middle of the room, and select command Subdivide room.
Refer to Chapter 1 (Layout), to learn more.
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Navigation window
The engine of the Navigation Window has been strongly empowered, with shadows, reflections, and new effects for the tiles
finishes; in this way the Navigation window is approaching a better quality, that starts becoming similar to the one given by
the rendering engine. Ambient Occlusion effect is now available in Navigation too, so that you can have shadows effects where
surfaces get in contact. Refer to the Navigation chapter to see this feature in more detail.
You can now manage the sun light directly in the Navigation window, so that you can see in real-time the effect of the modified
properties.
If you click the right mouse button on the wall, you have now several commands in order to
dynamically manage the tiles and strips on the wall: create a new strip under the one you have
selected, change the strip height, delete selected strip, or move up/down the strip you are
focusing on. This set of commands available with the mouse dramatically speeds up your
productivity when planning tiles on the project walls.
Copy&Paste of a tiled area from a surface to a different one. Copied tiling is kept in memory even
if you close the project. This allows you to open/create a new project, and apply there the tiling
you had in the previous one.
Change strips height, manually
If you need to change the strip height, you can click the button you see in the left image (the one
with the red square around it, tool tipped with View strips in the Application). You will open a mask
where to control the dynamic panel. For example, you can change the height of any strip currently
available in the panel, you can delete a strip, or you can even leave it empty (sometimes this is useful when you need to tile
just a section of the wall). Have a look at the Panel strips mask and play around with it.
A second (and quicker) way to change strip height is to use the context menu: in Navigation window, click the right mouse
button on the strip you want to modify, and select command Strip heightManual. Pick a graphic reference (in case you
have one) for the new height, or type the new value. In the same menu, you find the command that allows you to delete a
strip, create an empty (new) one, or even change strip grout.
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Change strips height with tiles number
You can change the height of an available strip of a wall, by specifying the number of tiles you want to find in that strip.
In Navigation window, click the right mouse button on the strip you want to modify, and select command Strip
heightTiles number. The Application will let you specify the number of tiles you want to have in that strip, and as soon as you
change the value you’ll see the result in the wall in the background.
Shower box corner
This mask has been modified so that now all the fields are ordered with the best concept for the user: you first select the tile,
specify the grout, finally the number of lines/columns. Seems to
be a little improvement, while you will feel it is a better way of
working with this mask.
Tiles layer
For this mask too the order of the controls has been changed
accordingly.
Tiles layer and vertical tiling
There’s a new feature when you create tiled areas or vertical tiling both in Navigation or Tiling (Wall) window: you can now
change the origin (dragging) point of the area, setting it in the center of the area: click O keyboard button when you move
the area, or click P to get back to the border of the area.
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Estimate
Estimate window now gives you the opportunity of changing the algorithm for calculating quantities. As you can see in the
image, you have 2 different options:

Automatic waste: this is the standard
algorithm used by the Application. The
Application knows that every time you cut
a tile you have to consider a waste factor.
For this reason if you are using more than
50% of a tile, the Application adds the
complete tile to the Estimate, as the rest
is considered waste.

No waste: calculation refers to theoretical
area covered by the tile, without any
waste. The area of the surface (floor, wall) is mathematically divided by the area of the tile.
You can now change the algorithm method dynamically in the Estimate window, checking the difference with or without
the waste factor. In any case you still have the control on the waste factor, as you can type the value you need in the
dedicated column (Waste %).
V-Ray: new rendering engine
DomuS3D® Pegasus allows you to choose between the most powerful and professional rendering engines in the world.
Together with mental ray®, in fact, now it is possible to use V-Ray when rendering the scenes. When you purchase
the Professional license, you can choose one of the engines (V-Ray is the default one, if not differently requested).
If you want to add the second one, you have to order it separately. Compared with mental ray®, V-Ray differs in:

Simplicity: even if the rendering process involves so many variables and parameters, V-Ray is equipped with
automatic algorithms that allow users to easily get photographic images of the scene. Presets (low, medium and high
quality) together with the automatic exposure system make easier for the user to engage the rendering process eve
if he/she is not expert in rendering techniques.
Same as with digital cameras, if you want to get a good result you have to avoid backlight and overexposed areas; usually it is
enough to take care that the sun does not enter the scene in front of the observer. Here’s an example of a rendering made
with the automatic exposure algorithm.
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After the first rendering image made with the automatic exposure algorithm, you can setup the scene parameters starting from
the setup the Engine has found for you; as a result, you’ll save time in order to setup the scene’s parameters prior launching
the rendering.

Rendering speed: benchmarks made in the test period report that, with the same computers, projects and materials
in the scene, V-Ray is quicker in generating the rendering images.

Displacement: V-Ray offers the same bump mappings as mental ray®, plus the displacement option, which is typical
for materials that have a thickness or relief, such as stone... With V-Ray, you can start creating 3D tiles still planning
them with the simplicity of 2D images.
Dynamic rendering with V-Ray RT
The V-Ray standard engine uses the internal CPU for the rendering process. You can decide, indeed, to use V-Ray RT
engine (RT means Real Time, and is equipped with the standard one) in order to be able to use GPU for rendering.
AS you know, GPU is dramatically quicker than CPU, hence having fast NVIDIA graphic cards may result in smaller
rendering times (for more information refer to chapter 5).
As the Real Time engine lives in a dedicated window, you can:
Keep on working on the project while V-Ray RT creates the rendering image
Open the RT window on a second monitor, so that the customer keeps on looking at the rendering, while the
designer concentrates on project variations
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Distributed rendering with V-Ray
The third release (scheduled by May7th , 2014) contains the V-Ray module for Distributed Rendering. This module
allows you to split the rendering process over multiple computers over the LAN, but can be used only through the
Render Manager application. Refer to Chapter 5 in order to know how to use the distributed rendering.
Render Manager
Render Manager is the
external
application that
can receive the
rendering jobs from the
DomuS3D®, and render
them in remote. The new
version of the application
can process both V-Ray and
mental
ray®
jobs.
Moreover, it is possible to
process Pegasus as well as
Antares rendering jobs,
and if on the rendering
server there is a mail client,
it
is
possible
to
automatically send the
rendered image back to the
designer by e-mail.
Multi-room
In case of multi-rooms projects, it is now possible to
extend the floor pattern from one room to the other,
thanks to the command Extend floor tiling, available in
the Navigation window.
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Technical blueprints
You can decide if the technical blueprint for the installer will provide also details regarding the height of the strips you created
in each wall. You can activate this option in the Application Preferences (Options) mask.
Windows on horizontal ceiling
You can now place Velux windows on horizontal ceilings (while Velux on sloping roofs was already available as a command in
the previos versions). When placing the Velux, the Application links it (and refers its distance) to the default wall, but
using P keyboard button you can change the reference wall. If you move the wall the Velux is linked to, the window will be
moved as well.
Change tile
While in Navigation window, if you want to quicker change existing tiles, you can right click on the tile you want to change. As
you can see in this image, you have 2 options for changing the tile.
Single will change just the selected tile, Multiple will allow you to
select more tiles prior changing them with the new one.
In finestra Navigazione
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Components window
It has been improved the SEARCH engine in order to quicker search and find items in the
internal Library.
In the Tiles section you have the opportunity of searching tiles by color. The internal search
engine automatically ranks the tiles you have in the library with a color (16 or 256 base
colors) scheme, so that it is easy and quick to work with specific colors.
Import TilePlanner projects
DomuS3D® users can import project made with TilePlanner, the online design tool available connecting to:
www.tileplanner.com. In this way end-users creating their own projects online, can share them with the Point of Sale in order
to let the designer preparing more solutions and better renderings when meeting the customer.
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Modular furnishing module
DomuS3D® Pegasus can integrate third party software in order to complete the Application potential. One of these integrations
can be used in case you need to design more complex (parametric) furnishing elements such as kitchens, offices,
etc…, as the Application contains static objects only. In these images you can see ArredoCAD integration; ArredoCAD
is a software specialized in modular furnishing elements, and contains all features in order to create your own
cabinet. Its contains already a generic library with thousands of cabinets from kitchens, bathrooms, offices, bedrooms, living
rooms, wardrobes, etc… Contact Maticad if you want to receive further information on this optional module.
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Contacts
Support Team
We are ready to side you since the first day of your DomuS3D® experience, in order to help you quickly becoming productive,
efficient, and winning in your marketing with DomuS3D®.
With this aim the Support Team is available for users who have joined the technical support annual fee.
You can contact Support Team by writing an e-mail to [email protected] or by phone, calling +39-0721-63.91.66.
When contacting us over the phone for technical purposes, keep your customer code in front of you as the automatic access
procedure will ask you to dial it before getting to the Support Team.
Support Team is available for you from Monday to Friday (except for Italian standard vacation time), from 9.00 to 12.00 a.m.,
and from 3.00 to 6.00 p.m., Italian time.
Catalogues Department
Catalogues Department works every day in order to provide you the widest library collection possible. You can download
catalogues from within the LivePage! if you have processed the Catalogues Download Annual Fee.
If you feel some catalogues are missing or incomplete, write to [email protected] in order to report the Catalogues
Department about those libraries; we’ll do our best in order to contact the Manufacturer, collect information and data, and
share them with you as soon as possible.
Marketing and Sales Department
Contact Marketing Department ([email protected]) if you need to:
-
receive generic pre-sale information, offers and prices
upgrade your current DomuS3D® to newer versions, or buy additional licenses
join the Catalogues Download service
join the Technical Support service
book a Training session (on site or remote)
order a Space Navigator
ask for dedicated services
Account Department
Contact Account Department ([email protected]) if you need to:
-
check your invoice or payment status
check the delivery status of your order
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Suggestions and improvements: Wish List
Last but not least! As a valuable DomuS3D® customer, we take into great consideration your sensations, needs and dreams for
the future versions of the Application, as well as for its documentation and siding technologies.
As we know the paramount importance of this process in order to give you a win-win technology for your daily use, we’re
already listening to you: share your feedback and help us shape our roadmap for the next versions, by writing comments and
suggestions to: [email protected]
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Epilogue
I’m confident that this guide has helped you in starting working with DomuS3D® in your very first approach: the guide in fact
(at the current status) does not claim to be the ULTIMATE guide for DomuS3D®.
For those users who are becoming experts and want more from the learning side, I’d suggest as follows:
1.
2.
3.
Receive the up-to-date version of the guide. New versions of the manual will be available quarterly, and will be
published in:
a. the Application’s Live! Page (as PDF file)
b. the Application’s web site (as PDF file)
c. as an App on Maticad’s AppStore and GooglePlay
d. as an e-book for Kindle
Look at the videos available both in the Application’s Live! Page and on YouTube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBZt49BrNW5EEH9a4vkepiQ.
Get in touch with the Support team (for those who have subscribed technical support service) in order to share your
design problems with the DomuS3D® experts.
Thank you for being valuable part of our Team
Massimo Rossini
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Index
3
D
3dconnexion, 56
3DS, 62
3dwarehouse, 160
DAE, 63, 160
Dark, 87
dark multiplier, 86
Database
group objects together, 161
load multiple tiles, 159
load new object, 160
load pricelist from account. sw, 162
new tile, 159
Day time, 97
Delete, 64, 71
Detailed position, 61
Diffuse, 105
Diffuse Color, 111, 113
diffuse lighting, 102
Diffuse Map, 104
Diffused Color, 104
Dimension, 47
Displacement Map
Comparison with Bump, 118
Download of single objects, 38
Duplicate, 64
DXF, 62, 160
Dynamic image, 89
dynamic panel, 73
dynamic patterns, 69, 76
A
Affect Shadows, 112
Align, 61
alignment, 76
Anisotropy, 119
Arch, 46
Arch&Design, 104
area light, 99
area lights, 100
ArredoCAD, 174
Assign material, 67
automatic rotation, 61
Available languages, 18
Azimuth, 96
B
background, 57, 73, 97, 195, 196, 199
Backup
Client/Server version, 158
Standalone version, 158
BRDF, 119
Bright, 87
bright multiplier, 86
Bump, 118
Bump Maps, 115
E
effects, 57
Elevation, 95, 96
Environment, 96
Estimate, 145
available algorithms, 146
export the XLS file, 147
print the e., 148
waste factor, 147
existing room templates, 39
Exponential, 87
Exposure, 83, 84
Extend, 65
C
CAD 2D, 63
CAD 2D tools, 46
Catalogues Download, 35
Change, 71
ChaosGroup, 89
Client/Server, 11, 12, 21, 26, 120, 158
COLLADA, 62, 63
Color Bleeding, 85
Color mapping, 86
Color Mapping, 87
Columns, 49
components window, 59
Components window, 30
Configuration, 11, 12, 55
Contacts, 206
Copy, 64
Corner, 51
countertop, 79
CS, 12
CUDA, 89
Curves, 47
F
FAQ, 192
Field of View, 57
floor, 68
Fog color, 111, 112, 113
Fog Multiplier, 111
Free hand drawing, 45, 47
Fresnel, 107
Fresnel IOR, 107
Furnishing Elements, 32
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G
N
Glossiness, 106
GPU, 89
grout, 70, 79
Navigate the scene, 41
Navigation, 27, 54
neon, 101
Niches, 50
Night time, 93, 97
NVIDIA, 89
H
Hardware key, 28
height, 49, 73
Holes, 50
How to open Navigation, 41, 54
O
objects, 59
origin, 70, 76
Ozone, 95
I
IES, 98, 99, 100
Images, 33
insert, 78
Installation procedure, 16
Invisible, 93
ISO, 84
P
pattern, 70
Pegasus
news ref Antares, 197
penumbra, 99
Physical light, 98
Placing doors and windows, 40, 59
Placing objects in layout, 40, 61
point of view, 57
Polyline, 47
Polyline from selection, 47
Portal lights, 102
Print
blueprint for the installer, 150
floor/walls b for the installer, 152
project summary, 153
projects details, 150
properties, 60
Properties, 24
punctual light, 99
K
keyboard, 48, 55
L
Layings, 31
Layout, 27, 45
shortcuts, 52
snaps, 53
Length, 115
Lights, 32
Linear, 87
Live!, 20, 21, 35, 36, 37, 57, 98, 103, 160, 165, 178, 181,
188, 208
Q
M
Quick Step Guide, 11, 39
Materials, 32, 66
already available in projects, 120
mental ray, 28
Artificial lights, 127
bibliography, 144
choose the engine, 81
comparison with V-Ray, 82
Exposure control, 121
how to use it, 121
Lights, 124
Materials, 131
Natural light (sun light), 124
Portal light, 130
Tiles materials, 139
MetallicPaint, 104
Mirror, 66
Modify, 66
Modular Furnishing, 174
mouse, 48, 55
Move, 64
Move walls, 39, 49
Multiplier, 93, 99, 100, 115
R
Rectangular Room, 45
Reflection, 105
Reflection Color, 111, 118
Reflection glossiness, 106
Reflection Glossiness, 113, 118
Reflection Map, 105
Refraction, 107
Refraction color, 107, 112
Refraction Glossiness, 113
Refraction Map, 108
Refresh, 54
Render Manager, 140
Rendering, 27, 81
using mental ray®, 121
Rendering Parameters, 88
rendering process
in QuickStepGuide, 43
Resize, 65
roof, 50
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Room by selection, 47
Rotate, 64, 80
Rughness, 104
Tile the floor, 42
Tiles, 30, 68
TouchFly
create multiple panoramas, 167
use the editor, 166
what does it need for?, 165
Translucency, 112, 113
Translucency multiplier, 114
Turbidity, 94
S
Sample Project, 11, 12, 39, 44, 177, 184, 191
Doors and windows, 179
layout, 178
Placing objects, 180
Rendering with V-Ray, 189
Tile the floor, 183
Tile walls, 184
Virtual navigation, 181
Saturation, 85, 97
Save room in components, 47
Scale, 93
Setup, 11, 12, 158
Share
single panorama, 155
tiles catalogues on iPad, 169
Shift, 115
shortcuts, 22
Shortcuts, 52
shower-box, 76, 179, 185, 186, 190
single tile, 75
SketchUp, 160
Sloping, 50
snaps, 53
Soft shadows, 94
Soft Shadows, 100
SpaceNavigator, 56
Split, 51
Spot Light, 100
Stretch, 65
strip, 73, 76
strips, 73, 74
Subdividing, 51
Subdivs, 102
Sun light, 93
Switch view, 80
System Variables, 29
U
UNDO, 52
Unit measure, 26
up/down, 74
V
Vertical, 77
Vignetting, 84
V-Ray, 28, 93
artificial lights, 98
bibliography, 144
choose the engine, 81
comparison with mental ray, 82
displacement map, 115
distributed rendering, 140
launch process in, 43
launch the render process, 83
lights, 93
materials, 103
materials advanced parameters, 118
portal light, 101
redering using V-Ray, 83
Sunlight and sky, 93
what's new, 200
VRayDisplacementMod, 117
VRayMtl, 103, 104
V-RayRT, 89
VRaySun, 95
W
walls, 72
White parameter, 86
width, 49
T
templates, 45
Text, 47
tile, 68
Tile
new tile, 159
Tile all walls with a single tile, 42, 72, 75
Y
youtube, 208
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