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The Surf Structure in Carmel CA was originally a building technology assignment to learn the basics of assembling a full set of construction documents. Left with all of the plans, elevations, and sections at the same scale, it's time to put together a 3-D model using Rhinoceros (NURBS modeling). Once you've prepped your DWG files in Autocad to the correct scale, you can use the process to quickly put together a digital model. To begin, import all of your construction drawings onto a single document then take some time separating each drawing onto its own layer to make manipulation easier later. Using the Site Plan as a base, use the Move, Rotate, and Rotate3D commands to move each individual drawing into position in space around the Floor Plan. Getting the alignment accurate on the elevations is crucial so be sure to turn on Osnap (I find using End Mid Int and Perp to be the most useful for precise building).
Once each elevation is oriented correctly on the floor plan, Move the whole thing (sans site plan) up into space, so that the ground line on each elevation is on the same plane as the site plan. Now that you have everything in position, I find it useful to build a simple massing solid on a separate layer to use as reference later on. Since you can turn a layer on or off in the middle of executing a command, it should be simple to select isolated objects then turn on the massing layer to get accurate extrusion distances.
Extruding a Planar Curve
For a model like this, you're going to use this command a lot, so get use to it and all of its quirkiness. You can find it in the Solid menu or by ExtrudCrv (autofill will bring it up quickly). For repeated commands, you can actually just right-click or press enter when you have a black command prompt. Doing so will trigger the last command used, so you don't have to find it in the menus again.
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