Chris Rogers

I'm surprised there is not a tool that leaves the original line intact and distributes objects or loci evenly along a line

It seems like this should be easy, but how do I divide a line into equal parts? (other than 2) Thanks.

Never mind. I'm just a moron. Just because I said I extruded the missing objects doesn't mean I actually did. Sheesh!

I have extruded a couple of polygons that are on 2 different layer. One shows up in the 3D views, and the other does not. I set visibilities on both classes and both layers to match, but to no avail. Any ideas how to get the other set to show up in 3D?

I used the roof face command. I did lower some of the faces to a negative z axis because I have two different eave heights and the z elevation corresponds to the higher of the 2. I also use negative roof thickness because I want the edge of eave to control the height, not the plate bearing. I don't think I duplicated anything.

If I can't get the forum attachment thing to work, there is no hope for me and BIM. Trying again...

All of my roof corners display correctly in 3D wireframe view but are drawn with triple lines in 3D hidden and rendered views. Any ideas? Drawing attached (I hope). I am using 2008

What are the little red X's that show up near doors and windows? Why do so many of my windows have a large gap (4"-8") between the brick and the window frame?

Have any of you worked out a simple strategy for plotting and printing on different size sheets? I plot final drawings and occasional test plot full scale to pdf and email to a printer. The rest of my work is printed to 11x17 sheet in the office. Sometimes these are partial drawings at 100% of sheet size (cropping does occur), sometimes I want 50% sheet size so all the scales are half but the drawings still fit the desk, and sometimes I don't care about scale and want it to fit 11x17. I can't seem to find a way to get VW to easily deal with these three conditions without always having to revise my page setup file by file, which throws batch plotting out the window when I forget to change something back. Any ideas? Thanks again for the help. I am starting to figure parts of this software out.

I am trying to learn roofs right now also and have a similar issue. I drew my roof faces on the Mod-Roof layer with the layer Z set to 17'-4". After drawing the sections, I have decided the entire layer needs to drop 12". I reset the Mod-Roof layer to 16'-4" assuming that entire layer would move down 12", but it didn't. What gives?

Thanks for the input. Your answers generated another question I need to ask about the best way to create wall dormers. I assume the roof's dormer command won't be any help? If you model the shell separately from interior walls, do you ever have the opportunity to go back and clean up the intersections?

Is the edit 3D wall hole the same command I would use to force windows to cut holes in walls that they don't seem to see?

I have a room that will be 2 floors high with windows that will be taller than the first floor. Is it best to leave the entire room on 1 layer and model the walls higher than the z value of the layer or draw the lower portion of the walls on the 1st floor layer ad the upper portion on the second floor layer. If I leave them on the first layer and raise the top of the walls, how do I get the walls to show on the second floor plan so I can add an open to below? Thanks for the input.

The Alexandria Lofts are downloading. Thank you for the link.

So from the point of view of the software, the section cut drawings are annotations because they exist as a series of lines laid over the generated building section? Do you then organize these lines into classes or layers to draft the sections? If some of what I am figuring out by drafting the section later needs to get worked into the model as geometry, is that a straight forward operation, or should I just be building geometry on a model layer?

All of my lines are measuring inches across instead of feet...as if I am drawing in paper space not model space (to use AutoCAD jargon). How can I draw sections in scale with the building, and if I decide to change the scale of the viewport, are the lines I drew on top going to stay in the wrong place?

Sounds like I need to make the switch to 2010 and let my engineers help the process. If you had an MEP version of the software, I bet my electrical engineer would buy it.

I am at the point in this project that I need to begin drawing wall sections but I am not certain where this should happen. Do I cut a section though the model via a viewport then draw the section on top of that? I guess I am going to have the same question when it comes time to add additional lines on top of elevations also.

It worked! Thanks.

I have a project where both the Mechanical/Plumbing Engineer and the Electrical Engineer are using Revit. What is the best way to share information with them? Are they going to be able to use my geometry at all or are they going to have to switch back to autocad and draw on top of exported base files?

So I am wanting to add additional geometry to the model of the building. I flip to the front view and try to add a couple of dimension lines to check where things are and am told by the computer that dimensioning can only happen in plan view. What? Am I missing something? Or is it operator error (as I suspect.)

This job is Heavy Timber, so I will be designing and modeling each truss component. When I do plate connected or pre-engineered trusses I just draw the profile and let their engineers design the members. Thanks for the help.

I am new to VW and need some advice on drawing organization relative to where I am in the design process. I have completed building a model using the built in tools (walls, doors, cabinets, etc) and am ready to build several heavy timber roof trusses, eave brackets, and rafter tails around the perimeter of the roof. Can anyone give me advices on the best way to create these components? I assume I can draw the object in 3D as solids in the file I am working in then save it as a symbol so it shows up as a resource? Advice on classing these types of objects? Structure? Roof? Thank you for the assistance. Chris

Thanks for the help, guys. This is my first project with VW and I am learning as I go.

I am very early in schematics and don't want to be sidetracked with the details of how many cabinets and where the joints are. I simply need to show a very complex monolithic plane that wraps three sides of the room then goes through a cased opening to create a multilevel countertop on the other side of the wall. I assume the best bet is to revert to plain 3D modeling and lose all the parametric functionality?