motus Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Has anyone been able to figure this out? I can sort of get it to work sometimes, but its seems to be lacking sufficient control of the retaining edge... sometimes I can get it to send the edge to the surface, but other times it just does;t seem to work right....anybody feel like this makes sense? if so, help me, please! Quote Link to comment
motus Posted September 22, 2012 Author Share Posted September 22, 2012 now I think it is actually a bug (will submit bug report): when the pad with retainer edge is set to modify existing, it won't send the retainer edge to the surface of the topo model, but it will if the pad with retainer is set to modify proposed.... Quote Link to comment
motus Posted September 22, 2012 Author Share Posted September 22, 2012 aaarrrgghhh...really having a hard time with the new pad-with-retaining edge.... i am trying to draw a pad under the existing portion of the house, and then draw an adjacent pad (touching, but not overlapping/intersecting), when i convert the polyline object to a pad, for some darn reason it forces the pads to overlap, and then it gives me an error message about intersecting pads... I have done several test now to make sure that my original polylines were not overlapping, so it is clearly something that happens during the "create objects" conversion to site modifiers... Quote Link to comment
Benson Shaw Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 I think the coincident edges are interpreted as an overlap. I have seen the error, too, with . I have ignored it, and found that the site model works OK anyway with the touching pads. Cannot guarantee that your site model will be OK. Good Luck!! -B Quote Link to comment
Bryan G. Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Motus, I havent really messed with it yet. I was going to do that today to see how it works. Ill report back. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Tamsin Slatter Posted September 22, 2012 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted September 22, 2012 Cooincident, or touching pads will indeed generate an error. Because the site model can only have one level (Z) at a specific X and Y coordinate, one set of elevations will end up being ignored (the ones drawn last in the stack). Overlapping will cause the same problem.Now, if the pads touch at the same elevation, you can ignore the message, because although one set of Z coordinates will be ignored, it doesn't matter, because they are at the same elevation as the points that are used to modify the site. When creating a pad with retaining edge, you get, in effect, two pads. Because pads cannot touch or overlap, there must be an offset between the two elements of the pad (although it is negligible). When creating a pad with retaining edge, Send to Surface is working fine for me when I choose Proposed on my modifier, but not when I choose Existing - I will file that bug. For clarification, when sending to surface, the retaining edge can be further modified with the Reshape command. The elevation of the pad itself is controlled with the Elevation field. The Slope field will also affect this pad. I hope that helps. Quote Link to comment
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