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Course manual

3DVIZ — SketchUp & Rhino to Twinmotion

A complete bilingual (EN/FR) production manual for architectural visualisation, written for design-studio students in years 2 and 3. Fourteen chapters follow the real order of production — set up, model, export, import, light, render — from SketchUp and Rhino 3D into Twinmotion 2026, plus a reference section with a 95-entry student FAQ, a 41-symptom troubleshooting index and a 56-term bilingual glossary. Roughly 66,000 words across the two languages.

The whole course runs on one project carried through thirteen stages; students submit the native model, five rendered stills composed as one argument, and a 60–90 second video sharing their lighting and cameras. Eight figures are drawn diagrams — inline SVG in both languages — covering what a screenshot explains badly: why light rounds a zero-thickness wall, what tessellation does to a NURBS surface.

It is one self-contained HTML file: EN/FR toggle remembered between visits, client-side search across chapters, FAQ and troubleshooting, a Y2/Y3 level filter, a symptom → fix index organised by what you see on screen, a print stylesheet that exports cleanly to PDF, and a layout that works on a phone at 1 a.m. the night before a crit. Read it online, or download the file and open it anywhere — no install, no dependencies.