Third Guild

ARCH ESSENTIALS: User Guide

Shelf Tool

Use for

  • Shelves for holding books or small objects.
  • Background element that provides visual interest; e.g. box shelves.

Overview

A handy tool that generates 'floating' style shelves for your interior visualisations. This tool provides various preset shelf shapes (e.g. straight, L-shaped and box), as well as, various cloning options for creating visually pleasing shelf arrangements using proportional scaling.

UVs and polygon-part names are auto-generated, however, ‘pack and paint’ is left to the artist

Workflow

To use this tool,

  1. Left-click on the ‘Shelf’ button in the Arch-E user interface.
  2. Left-click in the 3D viewport.
  3. Select options as required (see below).
Arch Profiles 3D View

User Interface

Arch Profiles UI

Design

The shape of the shelf sections. Choose between,

  • Straight
  • L-Shaped
  • L-shapoed (mirror)
  • Trough
  • Box

Width

Width of the bottom-most shelf section.

Height

Height of the bottom-most shelf section.

Depth

Depth of the shelves.

Thickness

Thickness of the shelf.

Chamfer Top

Controls size of chamfer that's applied to the top leading edge of the shelves. A value of zero disables this chamfer.

Chamfer Top Round

Rounding level for the top chamfer. A value of zero disables rounding.

Chamfer Bot

Controls size of chamfer that's applied to bottom leading edge of the shelves. A value of zero disables this chamfer.

Chamfer bot Round

Rounding level for the bottom chamfer. A value of zero disables rounding.

Clone: Count

Sets the number of clones. Minimum is 1 and maximum is 7.

Clone: Scale

Sets the dimension/s along which scaling will occur.

Clone: Scale Factor 1/

Sets the scaling factor that's applied to each succesive shelf. Setting this value to 1 will disable scaling.

Clone: Direction

Direction in which cloning occurs; e.g. You may choose to clone along the vertical or horizontal axis.

Clone: Position Offset

Adds an additon position offset. Increasing this value will move the shelves further apart along the chosen Clone Direction.

Clone: Align

Sets the alignment of the shelves with respect of the horizontal or vertical axis; e.g. for vertically-cloned shelves this is equivalent to justification.