Basic Concepts – Camera Match uses mathematics to calculate the camera position, eye height, and perspective relative to the photograph. In order to achieve this Camera Match requires a series of parallel lines so that it can calculate the mathematics.
Installing Camera Match – Camera Match is a fantastic plug in for Vectorworks. You do have to visit the website www.panzercad.com to purchase it. Once you have purchased that you then have to install it into your Vectorworks.
Camera Match is a 3rd Party Plugin to Vectorworks. This means that is doesn’t come as a standard. You have to buy it. I think you will find that this Plug-in saves so much time with visualization, that it pays for itself the first time you use it. I know…
Camera Match has a tool that allows you to mask out areas in the rendered view. This will hide areas of the rendered model and make the photo come to the front.
When I first used the Camera Match, it worked well, but I did all my montage work in Photoshop. The Camera Match works much better now, and it is designed specifically to work in a viewport. So, we have to set up a viewport to get started.
Importing a photo into Vectorworks to use as a CameraMatch background.
Fine Tune the Camera View.
Placing a CameraMatch Reference object. The Reference Object is used to link the 3D model to the photo. When you place the Reference Object, it has to relate to a position it the photo.