taoist Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 Need to create 1x4 thru 1x12 fluted flat stock to show in 3D. Do I create this in 2D then extrude? Create in 3D? Save as symbol? Need to be able to understand this so I can create custom objects for re-use. taoist Quote Link to comment
Horst M. Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 Hallo, You could try using the framing member tool. Create 2d section of your Profiles as Symbols, and use these within the tool. The only drawback is the, not really usefull 2d representation of your drawn Framing Member. Horst M. Quote Link to comment
taoist Posted July 24, 2011 Author Share Posted July 24, 2011 Horst, Thanks for the reply. Need to have for use in 2D and 3D. Framing member tool? Do you mean Create Joists from Polys? Is that not a simplified way of extruding and duplicate array? taoist Quote Link to comment
Horst M. Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 (edited) Joist from Polys ... sounds interesting. There are sooo many tools and toys .... The framing member Tool is in the Detailing palette of the Designers and Architects Workspace. Check out the jpg with an example. I discovered the tool recently, while i was trying to find a useful workflow to create Walls for a Container... Edited July 24, 2011 by Horst M. Quote Link to comment
taoist Posted July 24, 2011 Author Share Posted July 24, 2011 OK. How do you get to create / customize using this tool. No option for profiling it. taoist Quote Link to comment
Horst M. Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 (edited) you can select custom Profiles from your Workfile, if you create your desired Profiles as Symbols. The gate to heaven is at the very bottom of the OIP "Select custom Profile" :-) Edited July 24, 2011 by Horst M. Quote Link to comment
taoist Posted July 24, 2011 Author Share Posted July 24, 2011 OK Where do I find this? taoist Quote Link to comment
Horst M. Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 I attached my Testfile to my last post The gate to heaven is at the very bottom of the OIP "Select custom Profile" :-) Quote Link to comment
taoist Posted July 24, 2011 Author Share Posted July 24, 2011 Horst, Thanks again. Trying to get up to speed ASAP with VW. Has been quite awhile. I never did learn to use the tools as I should have. Time to get up to speed. Love those jpeg images. Pretty cool stuff! taoist Quote Link to comment
taoist Posted July 24, 2011 Author Share Posted July 24, 2011 Horst, I am using VW 2008. It won't open your file. Can you save as VW 2008 as that is what I am using till I upgrade? taoist Quote Link to comment
Horst M. Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 Ups sorry. that's what userprofiles are for ... Here it is for 2008... Like I say, there are so many tools and Toys... And it can become a lenghty dicussion if they save time or Steel time while you try to convince them to make what you need. In this case the 2d Representation of the resulting object is less nice than the 3d result. May be we once get Hybrid Symbols, that just show the "hidden Line" Render of the 3d or dashed Hidden line or custom 2d .... Quote Link to comment
taoist Posted July 24, 2011 Author Share Posted July 24, 2011 Horst, Thanks. Did a search on the KB and they suggest for a Hybrid symbol (what I need) is to create the 3D version 1st then the 2D in Top/Plan view. Use Tool> Align command > Select All. Switch to 2D plan projection. Run the Create Symbol command from Organization menu. The hybrid symbol will now be available in the RB. taoist Quote Link to comment
taoist Posted July 24, 2011 Author Share Posted July 24, 2011 Horst, Unfortunately there is no custom profile option in VW 2008. Another reason to upgrade! taoist Quote Link to comment
Horst M. Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 ja, shure that works, but you lose the advantage to edit through the OIP ... so you could also draw lines and use the Extrude Along Path tool on copies of the Profile .... Quote Link to comment
Horst M. Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 (edited) Horst, Unfortunately there is no custom profile option in VW 2008. Another reason to upgrade! taoist Thats at least a (good) sign, that even this tools once in awhile get updated. So then. have fun extruding along the path! Edited July 24, 2011 by Horst M. Quote Link to comment
Horst M. Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 If you have time, you could try to ad your Profile Symbols to the default file where VW takes them from ... may be that works.... Quote Link to comment
taoist Posted July 24, 2011 Author Share Posted July 24, 2011 EAP seems to be the McGiver of tools for VW. Should / needs to be easier than this. Create a profile of what you want. Make sure it is oriented correctly Save to Profile Symbol Library Enjoy the fruits of ones labor taoist Quote Link to comment
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