Sebastiaan

You can calculate with the wattage field if you use a combination of a value formula to make a value from the text field. And a substring formula to get rid of the W. the formula could look like this: =VALUE(SUBSTRING('Lighting Device'.'Wattage'; 'W'; 1))

Perhaps applying the image as a texture to an extrude could achieve what you want

I would extrude polylines to do this.

I agree. The amount of data that a properly made point cloud can give…..One could not manually tape / laser measure against that. but a laser scan is not an x ray. The scanning operator needs to make sure that the relevant data is visible in the pointcloud. If possible of course.

I am not sure there is a protocol but the company I worked for had a high standard for quality. I can imagine there are lots of differences in quality. Not only for the scanners but also the operators. the company I worked for not only did the scanning but also the modeling in house so that must have an effect in knowing what the scan should show.

There are definitely scanners that have a much better accuracy than that. If the scan was made with a BLK 360 the scan will be of less quality then if the scan was made with an RTC360 or even P50.

during COVID I worked as a scan operator for a couple of months. They thought me that during the scanning I needed to make sure that al relevant measurements needed to be visible in a scan. For instance tie up curtains. Move a cabinet that is exactly in the corner. And position a scan as such that the least amount of ‘shadow’ is visible. I even once emptied someone’s closet room when I scanned a house that was still occupied. it shouldn’t matter if there is a closet against a wall, if I can still determine the corners to the left and right of the closet. We should then assume that the wall continues behind the closet. So if your scan has so much clutter that you can not determine the buildings main measurements then I would say that is a mistake by the scan operator / company as well.

Clip cube is your friend in this. If you create a clip cube to be a horizontal slice of the point cloud. Clipping the floor and ceiling. In a top view this will give you the outlines of the walls measured by the pointcloud. the same can be done vertically for the floor and ceiling heights.

hi Yes sorry I did not see the plug in in the workspace editor at first. But it was there the second time I looked 🙂. So that’s why I deleted the post. thank you again for all that work!

Why would a plug in have to be in all languages?

A replace truss workflow that I found works well when replacing equal lengths of truss, for instance when I want to replace a 2024 (without chords) truss symbol with a 2025 (with chords) truss symbol is the following: Select the truss objects to be replaced run the "convert truss to symbol" command Use the Symbol OIP 'replace symbol' command to replace the trusses at a symbol level select one instance of each truss symbol type and run the 'convert to truss' command VW will prompt if you want to convert all trusses of the same type. Above will work with rotated and raked truss objects, even when replacing with new hybrid truss symbols. I do agree there must come a more user friendly way of replacing trusses. Why not a replace truss button in the OIP similar to the lighting device? A function that would be capable of recalculating entire truss systems when lengths are changed would be a great enhancement task, but I can imagine this being a great programming challenge. A single straight system would not be that difficult I presume, but when corners and various directions com in to play it will be a different game, many many variables in that. Let's just start with a simple way for a user to be able to select one or more truss objects and be able to say 'replace with this truss symbol".

That was not my intention! But the way I've always worked when I just want to quickly place a symbol without rotating. It is the same workflow as placing symbols now.

the VW stock content is only shipped with the outer chords of any piece of truss. If a user wants more chords than that then you can add them yourself by editing the 3D portion of the truss and adding a 3D polygon the center of any desired chord. This can even be a vertical brace if suitable. you also need to add the truss chord record to this 3D polygon. The VW help explains the proces.

The topic starter said something about time and you said ‘it adds up’ so my response was consecutive to both.

In all my years of VW drafting I have never thought of the two click proces of inserting symbols and lighting devices as time consuming. And a simple double click is my habit of inserting without rotating. I can not imagine a double click to consume any time at all.