michaelk Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Can a floor object be sloped? Can the edges be plumb? thanks in advance michaelk Quote Link to comment
CipesDesign Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 No, a floor object cannot be sloped. But a Roof Face can, and they're nearly the same in most other respects. I use roof faces for sloping slabs al the time and it works fine. 1 Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted November 5, 2009 Author Share Posted November 5, 2009 Thanks, Peter. That's what I ended up doing. Just wondered if I was missing something obvious. michaelk Quote Link to comment
nering Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 What would you use for the sloped roof that is also a green/parking area? Would you create them separately, as IFC entities? I am wondering if there is some kind of landscape tool to do that in one swoop. Quote Link to comment
CipesDesign Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 I don't think so. Let's ask Jeff.... Quote Link to comment
nering Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Too bad, would have been nice to create a green roof easily... I'll just do it piecemeal for now, I guess. I'm starting to miss hand drafting Quote Link to comment
Jeffrey W Ouellette Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 I'm starting to miss hand drafting NOT me... Quote Link to comment
CipesDesign Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 nering, it's not exactly "piecemeal". You can do some very easy and accurate roofs and the rest by using more than one roof face, or roof object, stacked on each other somewhat like a layer cake. What makes this simple is that you can duplicate one roof (or roof face) and then move it up (or down), change it's thickness, change it's attributes, etc. as desired, thereby creating the entire system. Perhaps you are looking for a built-in tool which creates the different layers of a green roof system and allows parametric editing? This would be pretty cool. You should add it to the Wishlist. You'd be surprised how attentive NNA is. ;-) As far as missing hand drafting, I'm with Jeff. There's loads of things I can do now with a computer that I would not have even attempted 10-15 years ago by hand! Quote Link to comment
nering Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 That is exactly what I was hoping for. It'll go on the wish list I guess. Thanks for the tips Peter, sounds like it COULD be easier than I thought. I'll give it a try. CAD is definitely much faster. Fixing and modifying in just a few clicks instead of scrapping the whole drawing definitely is better. I can't even imagine doing construction documents by hand either, and the time they would take! It's just that the whole "hand-to-brain" link - it's not quite the same with the mouse... Looks like the technology is not lagging behind though... There are some pretty cool gadgets out there. Quote Link to comment
brudgers Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 nering, it's not exactly "piecemeal". You can do some very easy and accurate roofs and the rest by using more than one roof face, or roof object, stacked on each other somewhat like a layer cake. What makes this simple is that you can duplicate one roof (or roof face) and then move it up (or down), change it's thickness, change it's attributes, etc. as desired, thereby creating the entire system. Perhaps you are looking for a built-in tool which creates the different layers of a green roof system and allows parametric editing? This would be pretty cool. You should add it to the Wishlist. You'd be surprised how attentive NNA is. ;-) As far as missing hand drafting, I'm with Jeff. There's loads of things I can do now with a computer that I would not have even attempted 10-15 years ago by hand! Sounds like a wall drawn on it's side. Quote Link to comment
CipesDesign Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 Yes, or like a roof (or floor for that matter) which has components, like a wall. This is an often requested feature. It would be a pretty nice improvement. Also often requested, and perhaps a type of one of the above objects, is a flat roof tool which could be sloped as per user defined requirements. This is a fairly typical need for a lot of commercial design and construction projects. Quote Link to comment
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