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    Round wall w/door object

    in Architecture

    Posted

    Well, they don't in real life either.

    I would try to set the door up and adjust offsets and frame dimensions so that it most closely resembles how you are going to detail it and how it is going to be built.

    If that doesn't work, you may have to resort to 2D drawing in plan & elevation, but I have to say that in my experience, if you have trouble drawing something, it is probably unbuildable as well.

    angled wall ends

    in Architecture

    Posted

    Trans Tasman rivalries disappear in the face of the bush fires and drought that you guys are facing this season.

    I have to point out though that we do not have snakes here in NZ - not the legless varieties anyway!

    angled wall ends

    in Architecture

    Posted

    Capping works on walls regardless of the angle of the wall or angle of the cap. Make the wall a little longer, then draw a line to represent where you want the wall to end and at what angle, then use the line to trim the wall. Delete the line, select the wall, select the cap you want from the Object Info palette, and your wall will be capped at the angle of the line.

    applying a texture to a column

    in Rendering

    Posted

    Yes, I should have looked at my palette before posting - v11.5 already has a Pilaster tool.

    I must say I prefer Column to Pillar myself, can't see the point of that change. A column is clearly free standing, whereas a pillar can be either free standing or attached.

    applying a texture to a column

    in Rendering

    Posted

    Katie

    Beans??

    So in v12xx, do you have 3 options now, a column with base, shaft and capital (palette tool), an extrude called Column (AEC>Column) and another one called Pillar (shouldn't it be Pilaster?) which can be attached to a wall? In classical terms, a pilaster is the column at the end of a row, against a wall, usually 1/2 - 2/3 the depth of a free standing column.

    applying a texture to a column

    in Rendering

    Posted

    Thank you, it worked like a charm.

    However, I take it there is no way of texturing a column made by extruding a rectangle using AEC>COLUMN - you have to start with a column drawn with the palette tool, is that right?

    And there is no way of changing the Style-1 title to something else, like say Wall-Column?

    applying a texture to a column

    in Rendering

    Posted

    Katie

    Sorry, but I'm not even to the point of selecting Viewports - I can't get brick columns to show brick when I render the model in a design layer. I have a class for brick walls which has brick tecture selected for left, right & centre - this works fine for walls but not for columns. In the OIP for each column I have brick also selected under Render, but under both Fast and Final Render, columns come out grey while walls show brick.

    Incidentally, I don't see anywhere a facility for differentiating parts of the column as you post implies.

    What am I doing wrong?

    OIP won't respond sometimes in 12.5

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Apologies if you already do all these things, but your Mac may need some maintenance.

    1. Restart often solves problems like this.

    2. Do you leave your computer on at night? There is a maintenance program on your Mac timed to run in the wee small hours, so if your Mac is off, it doesn't run. Either leave it on, or get MacJanitor (freeware) and run it weekly.

    3. Run Utilities> Disk Utility>Repair Disk Permissions weekly.

    4. Buy DiskWarrior and run it weekly.

    Weekly isn't mandatory, I just find it easy to do all these things at the same time each week. I would try these for a while, if the problem persists, then you can look at trashing some VW files as Katie has suggested on another post.

    Regards

    HP 110nr

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted

    I have a 110+nr - it's pretty good, line quality could be sharper, and VW11.5 uses square pen technology rather than round pen. This means lines at angles other than 90? or 180? are drawn thicker than they should be. I think VW12xx has improved this.

    I went with the HP originally because it was claimed it could run wirelessly, sadly this was not the case, somewhere there wasn't emough memory and the printer would stop after about 5 prints, never to resume without turning off and restarting. I have gone back to having a USB cable across my office floor, which is ugly but at least the printer runs as long as I can feed it. If they are still making the wireless claim, don't believe a word of it.

    Oh, and it's pretty noisy when on, so I only turn it on if I have printing to do.

    It's good that the heads are separate from the ink tanks - the black printer head died soon after I got it, so I refused to pay for its replacement. I would ask for your supplier to include a set of replacement ink tanks in the deal (for free of course). The black tank that comes with the machine is a little one that doesn't last long - an inexplicably mean bit of marketing.

    Start Up

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Addy

    I don't know what the official way is to start a new file, but I take a previous job, preferably similar to the new one, simply save under the new file name, and change the data to suit. This way, all my preferred ways of working are continued, all the sheets and layers are there, symbols, scales, titles, etc.

    Regards

    Rotate Layers

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I'm sure there are more experienced users than me out there who can explain this more comprehensively, but I would create a new layer called Model, and Layer Link your wall layer and roof layer. Then you can rotate the resulting model of your building any way you want, independently of the orientation of the linked layers.

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