
The properties of the hatch lines can be controlled by the settings of the Hatch Line Settings panel below. If you check the Show 3D Vectorial Hatching box, the hatch lines (for example brick or tile contours) will be drawn in the rendered image.As in Line Style: For the most natural effect, the color of the lines can be determined by the scans’ original colors (graphite pencils, black art pen ink, sepia and peine gris aquarelles, and carmine.).Color images can be generated this way however, it requires the careful adjustment of pen colors. Current element settings: In this case, line color depends on the pen colors of individual model elements.The presets suggest traditional black, blue or tan colors. Custom: Any preferred color can be chosen for monochrome images.To get the best sketch effect, it is recommended to scan a large variety of line lengths, as the program will choose randomly among these styles when reproducing lines in the rendering. These sets can be extended with similar scans of scripts using any graphic device. Line Styles: Each linetype is represented by a dedicated folder with a set of bitmap images.

If you override these factory settings, the scene will be renamed Custom. The Sketch Rendering Engine provides a number of factory scenes with preset parameter values.

Scene: Click the drop-down to access sketch scenes. In the SketchTextures subfolder, you can find the predefined style file named SketchPreset.txt as well as the line texture files, each placed in a separate subfolder of SketchTextures.īelow, the same building rendered with two different Sketch scenes. Files used for sketch rendering are placed in the Add-Ons folder inside the ArchiCAD folder.

These effects include felt tip, pencil, graphite and marker.

The Sketch engine produces non-photorealistic renderings that replicate sketched lines - best suited for draft views in the early project stages, using different free-hand effects. Choose Sketch from the Engine drop-down menu in the PhotoRendering Settings dialog box ( Document > Creative Imaging > PhotoRendering Settings).
