I promised to illustrate my issues with the Wall tool in relation to precast elements in Finnish construction. I imagine this is relevant in various other contries, too.
Typically all walls are elements; external walls are sandwich panels. Since floors are also typically made of pre-tensioned elements, not all external walls are load-bearing. The floor elements sit on top of the inner shells of the wall elements.
What we can't do is ? well, practically everything! The inner & outer shells have very often different dimensions both vertically and horizontally. It is practically impossible to create a professional BIM with VW ? and what's the point in an unprofessional model!
These are basic, simple situations in residential buildings and many non-residential ones, too. You don't want to know about complexities of more complex projects?
Notwithstanding, I am looking forward to further improvements. The almost-there Wall Styles -system was a major one and this new Wall Sculpting may be both a very nice feature in terms of design freedom and an indication that the good people at NNA are taking a new look at the walls ? which, from the user's point of view, haven't evolved much since 1993?
Finally: can we in VW 2011 please have an arbitrary & persistent reference line, like already in ArchiCAD Beta AD 1985! No, the centreline is not good enough, not even the trichotomy of left, centre and right.
And the maximum allowed height in wall styles. Code compliance, you know?
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I promised to illustrate my issues with the Wall tool in relation to precast elements in Finnish construction. I imagine this is relevant in various other contries, too.
Typically all walls are elements; external walls are sandwich panels. Since floors are also typically made of pre-tensioned elements, not all external walls are load-bearing. The floor elements sit on top of the inner shells of the wall elements.
What we can't do is ? well, practically everything! The inner & outer shells have very often different dimensions both vertically and horizontally. It is practically impossible to create a professional BIM with VW ? and what's the point in an unprofessional model!
These are basic, simple situations in residential buildings and many non-residential ones, too. You don't want to know about complexities of more complex projects?
Plan
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/8129/planf.png
Sections
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/4936/sections.png
Notwithstanding, I am looking forward to further improvements. The almost-there Wall Styles -system was a major one and this new Wall Sculpting may be both a very nice feature in terms of design freedom and an indication that the good people at NNA are taking a new look at the walls ? which, from the user's point of view, haven't evolved much since 1993?
Finally: can we in VW 2011 please have an arbitrary & persistent reference line, like already in ArchiCAD Beta AD 1985! No, the centreline is not good enough, not even the trichotomy of left, centre and right.
And the maximum allowed height in wall styles. Code compliance, you know?
I'll discuss the Gardens later on.
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