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    better looking sections - advanced section properties control

    in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests

    Posted · Edited by lupin

    I'm yet to try 2017, so my wish might already be true?

     

    I'd like to generate good looking 2D architectural drawings from BIM without too much messing around.

    It would be useful to generate sections that have a heavy line for the objects in section, but retain the object's own fill.

     

    As it stands I have to:

    a)

    3 overlapping section viewports - one for the object's own fill, one for a heavy section line using a section style with no fill, one for the site model only with a section style with fill.

    OR

    b)

    manually draw over a viewport in annotations - not great for changing the model, and is an annoying hybrid of BIM and 2D drawing

     

     

    You could generate pretty good sections straight from the model with:

    a)

    "advanced section properties - attributes - separate cross sections"  if you could control line and fill options individually. PLUS

    b) a site model fill option somehow OR

    c) another way to deal with it might be if section viewports used the same attribute settings as Top/Plan...

    Architectural Elevations

    in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests

    Posted

    Out of interest, do other BIM programs have elevation line weights sorted out?

    Does anyone have a good method for VW?

    I was thinking to try making all my line weights minimal except for the section class then adding heavy weight line work in annotations, but I'm not looking forward to the experiment!  Especially as I suspect it won't work that well...

    An efficient BIM documentation flow would be very useful.  I'm sure it would generate lots of VW sales!

    free modelled objects views as filled in top/plan

    in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests

    Posted

    it would be useful if free modelling objects (extrudes etc.) could be viewed in top/plan as filled objects without going through the cumbersome auto-hybrid process.

    ... maybe this is logically impossible?

    It would make free-modelling better fill the gap where the VW BIM tools are not adequate (sloping walls, gutters, or quirky stairs for example).

    Ideally you could control line type, fill and opacity.

    Auto-hybrid is a user unfriendly tool.

    It requires too many clicks to do what you need to do, and editing is fraught.

    For objects located at Z levels higher than the default 1000mm above 0 it's exceptionally tedious.

    As I understand it, free-modelling is VW's answer for oddities and for when a (less mature?) BIM tool can't do the job.

    VW needs to easily accommodate non-standard design to be really useful.

    Please consider!

    edit wall caps in plan?

    in Architecture

    Posted

    Can you edit the geometry of wall caps in plan so they're not perpendicular to the wall?

    e.g. an internal wall meeting a parapet wall (joining them messes with the fit to roof objects, and it's not accurate anyway).

    I feel as though there is probably aneasy way, but I can't find it!

    Gutter for Roof object

    in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests

    Posted

    Hi, have gutters progressed in VW since this thread?

    Does anyone have advice on best BIM practice for making gutters?

    I was thinking to draw gutter profile as a polygon, and extrude along path.

    Convert to auto-hybrid to read in 2D.

    Is there any reason I should use polygon, 3d polygon or nurbs for the profile or path?

    Also an important part of any gutter tool would be:

    profile & path obviously

    z height (especially for drawing existing conditions - surveyors often provide top or bottom of gutter heights)

    downpipe profiles & locations

    degrees fall

    It would be cool to be able to do rainwater calculations with a comprehensive gutter tool!

    Thanks!

    Fit walls to objects - walls wrongly fit to ground plane

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    thanks for asking Jim, and sorry for the repeat post.

    yes my roof is in separate layer.

    My site model is also in a separate layer.

    It seems to matter which order I do "fit walls to objects".

    If I do the top of the wall first, and then the bottom separately, it's more reliable.

    Also, strangely, it seems to work better if I make a more complex extrude (for a fancy parapet wall) than a simple one. I can then edit the extrude to simplify it and redo the "fit walls to objects" to get the correct parapet wall shape.

    I'm wondering if VW doesn't like that my site model layer is set to z=0, whereas my building model layers are more like z=37000 and z=40000.

    (I'm working in mm).

    Finding these work arounds is time consuming - I can't work out the logic of them.

    Fit walls to objects - walls wrongly fit to ground plane

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Using fit walls to objects, some (but not all) of my walls are fitting down to the ground plane (z=0) instead of up to my roof layer objects.

    I'm drawing up existing conditions from a land survey, so my model is around 35m above the ground plane.

    There are no objects (loci etc) on the roof layer that I can find at z = 0.

    Sorry not to post a screenshot, but I'm not sure how to upload one to the techboard.

    Any help much appreciated!

    Looooong hangs during 3D modeling

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I'm getting long hangs too.

    It seems to come and go, as if a file or group of files get corrupted somehow (e.g: same model, different class and texture colours).

    Panning, zooming, exiting out of editing windows (exit group, exit symbol, ok to texture edits, ok to new classes etc.)

    My file isn't huge - 40MB.

    When I started a simple new file from scratch(with only imported textures), it seemed OK so far.

    I'm on a new secondhand iMac, so I'm not sure if it's the machine or VW or me (I've used VW for 2d a lot but I'm new to trying to do it BIM-like).

    Please make the auto hybrid non destructive

    in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests

    Posted

    I'm new to trying to use VW in a BIM-like way, and therefore to auto-hybrids, so please correct me if I'm wrong!

    Here's an auto-hybrid wishlist:

    It would be great if they were easier to edit - more like a symbol edit.

    The other geometry should appear greyed when you edit 2D or 3D so you can ensure they are lined up in top/plan.

    I'd like the dialogue box to pop-up automatically so with not much clicking I can set layer, class and cut plane height (say if I'm making an auto hybrid out of a roof too tricky to model with the roof tools - a bullnose verandah roof for example).

    I wish at least auto-hybrids would not automatically revert to the current class. As they are awkward to edit, I like to make them towards the end of making a model, and there may be a whole lot of them with different classes - non-standard roofs, gutters, parapet wall caps, bits of joinery, odd stairs etc.

    I'd also like to be able to do a batch auto-hybrid, and be able to choose whether they are made as one or individual objects.

    I suppose they'll be outmoded when top/plan type drawings are no longer used?

    I wonder can this work properly yet with clip-cube?

    Does anyone no longer use top/plan in architectural drawings?

    Just trying to get my head around BIM workflow.

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