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ArchiCAD’s rendering engine is Lightworks and, although it comes with some internal material libraries, it’s always nice to have more. Lightworks has therefore set up a website where users can download additional libraries – most of them free. Look for those that have “Base functionality” or “Architectural functionality” – the others may not work.
Via: http://www.virtual-north.com/
Note: The Virtual North website is not longer on the net.
Here is a freeware tool to create an unlimited number of seamless, high-resolution (or low-res if you like) textures and texture maps. It’s rather a steep learning curve but considering that there’s no cost attached, it’s well worth checking to see if it works for you.
Download: ~21 Megabytes
The links point to major collections of 3D objects that can be used by Archicad or Artlantis. This is a very good idea and I only wish I knew a little Spanish. Of course I view the site in English so it shouldn’t really matter but still; it’s more fun to read something in the original instead of a machine translated version.
This is a single archive containing about 2000 seamless jpeg textures. It contains the usual suspects – brick, wood, parquet, concrete, tile – as well as some unusual ones like crates, frontages, trim and ornamental details. You can have a look at the thumbnail pages before deciding if this huge collection is for you.
Warning! File size: 124MB
Textures Photorealistic & Lego® or Megablock® bricks style
http://berneyboy.planetquake.gamespy.com/textures.htm
The website is no longer available.
For a site that’s been around almost two years, I would have thought there’d be more models to download but, well, it is a blog after all. Their models are in *.3ds format and there are 5 collections of textures as well.
This site wants to be “For Everything AutoCAD”. Includes AutoCAD blocks (version 2006) tutorials, LISP routines, shx fonts and hatches. There’s also a forum for discussion and, possibly trouble-shooting. Time will tell if this site strikes a chord with users or if it’ll die away like many others before it.
This site has material texture libraries, a gallery of works and more than 600 3D objects in *.dwg format.