Blue print set up - Tutorial for beginners  

This tutorial is prepared to learn how to setup a blue print while modeling Toyota Avensis car, the same procedure can be used while modeling any type of model when a blue print is used as an reference; it is ideally suited for beginners as it has a detailed illustration explaining each step with an image. I hope you will enjoy this tutorial and will learn few new things in Autodesk 3ds Max. Let us start now. First we have to select a nice reference image of a car which has enough details to work with. You can find loads of blue prints in www.The-BluePrints.com. First let us select a blue print which has enough details and later on we can find a reference image for the same in Google images. I have selected the blue print of Toyota Avensis car as shown in figure 1 and I found an reference image in Google as shown in figure 2.

Now let us separate the views from the blue print by using any image editing application, I have used Adobe Photoshop for the same. Open the image in Photoshop and by using “Rectangular Marquee” tool select the side view from the blue print as shown in figure 3 and press CTRL C in the key board to copy the selection that we made. Now open a new document by pressing CTRL C in the keyboard or you do it by going to “File>>New” menu. When the “New” dialog box pops up enter the value of 720 pixels for width and 240 pixels for height as shown in figure 4. It all depends upon the size of the blue print, as you may have to change the dimensions for other blue prints. Make sure that it fits almost perfectly in the new document.