Some military perspective, please

[Petri]

Ahha! I got your attention. Well, I don't actually mean military perspective, but military projection. There are many situations, where this ancient projection mode would be ideal.

Today I managed to circumvent the situation by creating a series of mock-projections: all necessary items were of type Floor and with a clever little VectorScript I was able to produce what was needed.

[matto]

It might be help if you could provide a link that describes the projection method, an example would be great.

[mike m oz]

http://www.itedo.de/E/157_2363.php

I have never come across this before - I've learnt something today.

[Petri]

The advantage is that the plan is not distorted (remains a "map") and heights are not shortened, so can be measured.

[islandmon]

Also referred to as an "Offset Projection" ...

as Petri notes ... very useful, indeed.

[MKingsley]

Don't you get the same thing from the "Oblique Cavalier" projections?

[mike m oz]

A more technical explanation of Military Projection (amongst other things).

http://www.math.utah.edu/~treiberg/Perspect/Perspect.htm#Probs

[Petri]

Don't you get the same thing from the "Oblique Cavalier" projections?

?Ay, caballero! Not quite. Cavalier is a "front view", military a "plan view.

And, to take a cavalier view on this matter:

a non-technical intro at http://www.itedo.de/E/171.php, for those who missed their tech drafting classes at their architecture school.

Cavalier 30 retains, I think, dimensions, but plan angles are changed.

[MKingsley]

Gotcha, thanks!

[NickB]

Just to lend some weight to this, this has been requested by various other people in the past

http://techboard.nemetschek.net/ubbthrea...=true#Post53164

.... though none of those links seem to be working any more ....

Edited November 26, 2006 by NickB