Sciography

[nilblo]

When I prepare a Layout document for presentation of a building seen from different views, in architecture drawings I usually whish to utilize sciography to give a little depth to a 2D-view of the various facades. I can change the view for every selection of the model, front, back, left and so on.
I can turn shadows on and off but it does not look good when the front view of the building has a nice
shadow under the overhang of the roof while the backside view shows the building in total shadow.
Showing the backside view without shadows isn´t what I want so I have to save every view of the building in a separate file and rotate the building in respect to the sun to get the sciography element. It´s kind of counterproductive as it imposes a lot of extra work and consideration if and when you have to revise the model - and you usually have to do that...
I whish it shouldn´t have to be this difficult to get a nice "sciographic" presentation out of Layout.

Added for clarification: It is possible to change every viewports setting for shadowing individually but - traditional sciographic embellishment is only possible on one facade at a time. Good looking shade under the roof on one side gives not so good looking shade on opposite facade. So to get similar shades on every facade you have to rotate the building 90 degrees under the sun, for every viewport - hence creating 4 individual drawings. I´m only referring to ISO-metric 2D pictures of the facades. Every other aspect of sciography is very nicely accomplished within Skup and LO and I use it a lot..

[Dave R]

How about using Scene North Angle to set north away from the camera for each of the elevation scenes. Set time and date as needed for each scene to get the shadows to fall as needed. Make edits to a single copy of the model instead of to four copies.

[srx]

I think this is what you need http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13316