Hello!

A customer was impressed by the normal Panos I do. Now he wants to have a virtual tour of a whole office building. The problem is, that the building doesn't exist yet and the idea is to render the AutoCAD maps and create panos from them.

Is this possible with easypano? Or do you know anyother software that can do so?

Greetings,

lapinkulta

I would certainly think AutoCad would work.  Only the .jpg and the viewer is what is needed.

 You can crop a view in autocad that is say 3000 wide x 1500 high pixels (2:1 aspect ratio).  I think this would be like a clyinder display.  Save it out as .jpg file format.  PTViewer version 2.5 and higher handle cylinders.

Then in the normal ptviewer.jar applet code limit the vertical field of view to match the height of your image.  Keep in mind that ptViewer is designed as a spherical viewer however by limiting the vertical and zoom in some.. it should spin as well as other images.

Try it and let us know where to look at it.

Dave

Export your Acad solid model as a .3ds file and import it into 3D Studio Max. Version 6 of Max has a sperical panorama utility that can output full spherical panoramas as QuickTime files which can be viewed and navigated using the QT viewer.

TurnTool also makes a great program for doing actual rendered walk-thrus. It can operate either as a plug-in for Max or as a stand-alone app I believe.

Thank you.

I guess TurnTool will be the way to go, looks very very good but needs also very high budget on clients side... We'll see.

I have also found this script:

http://www.cgtechniques.com/goodies/panotour/

Greetings,

Gerwin

2 year old thread....

I see a gallery member was able to 360 a CAD.

is this how he did it? or are there easier newer ways?

Export your Acad solid model as a .3ds file and import it into 3D Studio Max. Version 6 of Max has a sperical panorama utility that can output full spherical panoramas as QuickTime files which can be viewed and navigated using the QT viewer