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I have Filemaker, and would like to set up the plant database to suit my company, do searches and print lists and reports according to criteria we use. The plant database has a number of fields that are not of much use to us, and lacks others, and it is such a plethora of info that I would like to set up displays that show what we are likely to want. The interface pages are also not fantastic - I would like to set it up so that it suits us better. I would also like to be able to do things like insert a field to calculate the Canadian hardiness zone from the US zone. I don't want to recreate the database and import the info, cos then I lose a lot of already created links and structures that would prove useful. Even setting up just the table and field definitions would be a lot of work. Is it possible to get a version of the database that I can mess with? Thanks
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Thanks all, I'm afraid I ran out of time on this and am unlikely to be able to return to it for a while. Perhaps I should find someone to model it for me if I ever want to actually get a final model in virtual space to play with. Anyone keen? 😉 This is a very basic version - the final version would have spiral roads winding down the outside walls and around the pillars. This means the outer walls slope outwards from the base, leaving a minimum of 1km of outer shell. The pillars taper from I guess about 4km wide at the base to about 2km wide at the top. Also there are supposed to be all sorts of tunnels through the walls and deck-separating slabs for trains, and elevators run up and down the pillars from the base up to the base of the pillar, next floor up. Then there are the living quarters.... and the top deck open space is landscapes with hills etc, and planted, with animals from various planets roaming it, and .... you get the idea? 😂 I was just trying to start it off for a fun exercise, so that I could visualise it more clearly for my writing. Working through with your help this has helped a lot already. I very much appreciate everyone chipping in to help though. Let me know if anyone feels inclined to play further with the idea.
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Ok, here you are - for everyone's amusement. tessFspacestation.vwx This only has the subdivision efforts in it, not the extrudes, except for the extrudes to cut out the living spaces.
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I haven't used multiple extrudes - I get to use 3D very little in the course of my work, so I am still a neophyte at it. I will have to look that up - thanks for the idea! I have had great fun learning about subdivisions, but they don't let me cut out the living quarters as easily.
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Sure, how would I send it to you? Or should I attach it here?
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herbieherb - thanks, I have converted the document preferences to km. The controls still don't work once it is scaled up unfortunately. Kevin, I have been working at a scale of 1:10000 throughout. I have copied the subdivision tried converting to generic solids. It warns me about such a solid not being editable, to which I say ok, but then it remains a subdivision. I tried converting it via other forms, the only one that seems to remain convertible to generic solid is the mesh. It converted one quarter of the asteroid to a jagged eggshell structure, and the rest of it disappears. Kinda fun finding these idiosyncrasies, but not getting me where I want to be 😂 Alan, that might work. I have used the hollowness to help me shape it - a handy quality in virtual space 😊
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One more question - if I make this object the size I want it to be - which is 45 km long, the subdivision tools stop working. I worked around this by making an asteroid 4.5 m long the scaling by 1000, but it's not ideal. Any idea why this should be? Thanks again, Tess
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Thanks guys!That has been very helpful! Kevin, I agree with you completely. Trying to model the finer textures would be frustrating to say the least. But I needed to know how to build the broad structure first, and don't really need the fine texture. I think I have managed more or less what I want for my purposes - which is an image of an idea of a hollowed-out asteroid as a space station for a story I am writing. So while I had a fairly clear idea of what shape asteroid I wanted to build, I am not terribly concerned about making the surface look good right now. I mainly wanted to have a clear image to write about, to allow me to calculate occupancy, describe areas (she found his residence in the sharp end, 3rd level kinda thing). If someone were to option the story for a movie (ha ha - I can dream...) - I think I would leave the final modelling to the experienced people. But thank you so much for your help, I learned a lot from this exercise, and might even be able to use the new skills at work, which is as a draftsperson for a perfectly ordinary landscape architectural company located here on earth. Here is the result of my efforts. Now to see how carving out the interior works....
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Never used that before - looks like exactly what I need. Thank you!
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is. version I have made by using multiple extrudes, like layers of cardboard
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Thanks Kevin, I am away short of the texture in the modelling - I am still modelling the basic shape of the object.. I an create regular shapes no problem, but getting a nice lumpy shape like a knobbly potato is what I am having difficulty with.
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I am building an asteroid - a totally irregular shape - in VW for my own amusement. I have successfully hollowed out the interior of my asteroid in the way I want, but the exterior is clunky. I made it from 3 intersecting extrudes, which isn't really satisfactory. How do I do a more construct? I am happy to draw a series of contour lines to build it from, but can't get them to join up. Or are there tutorials out there the you can refer me to?
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When using a reference crop object, how do you choose the class to which it will be assigned? Mine keeps getting assigned to an invisible class, and I fail to see the point. Under pressure and tired, very annoyed with this.
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I have a severe restriction - I am based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and we would not have the budget to cover travel. So I think, as you are unlikely to get enough subscribers to do an event like this in Ottawa, I would have to live with a webinar. Thank you
