digitalcarbon Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 i have no idea what to call it if anyone wants to add to the file please do Quote Link to comment
0 Benson Shaw Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 +1 Masterful video presentation of a cool modeling concept! The pipe in video is great example. Linear lumber and extruded metals are other potential sub PIO objects. Although users should be able to convert any object to a Product with numeric controls. I think I'm summarizing correctly: The Sub PIO (Product) object would retain its parametric controls for things such as length & cross section (lumber) or diameter & wall thickness & axial rotation (pipe) even after the Product is altered by end cuts, edge cuts, drilling, tilting, etc. EG the pipe can be drilled, resized for length, tilted, or the rafter can have bird eye edge cuts and angled end cuts. The PIO numeric controls and mouse edits can alter the overall length or cross section without distorting the holes or cuts or tilt. Perfect! -B Quote Link to comment
0 digitalcarbon Posted December 25, 2015 Author Share Posted December 25, 2015 Benson, yes exactly. we need to make products. also plywood for example would stretch in length & width but never in thickness because as a product i does not work that way Quote Link to comment
0 Dieter @ DWorks Posted December 25, 2015 Share Posted December 25, 2015 Isn't this what's Marionette is for? Quote Link to comment
0 Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted December 28, 2015 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted December 28, 2015 I like it! Submitting request now for R&D to put some thought into its implementation. Isn't this what's Marionette is for? It is! However I think a little more control would be needed on the user side, currently you can make a parametric pipe object via marionette relatively simply, but performing solid operations like cutting holes in it, would revert it to a simple solid. The desire is to allow for altering/deforming the object while still retaining parametric control of the original, which I think is out of the scope of most (if not all) Vectorworks' tools at the moment. Quote Link to comment
0 digitalcarbon Posted January 15, 2016 Author Share Posted January 15, 2016 more sub-parameteric tools Quote Link to comment
0 digitalcarbon Posted January 15, 2016 Author Share Posted January 15, 2016 this works. but it would be great to be able to have this stuff build into my symbols. Quote Link to comment
0 digitalcarbon Posted October 23, 2017 Author Share Posted October 23, 2017 apparently "sub-parametric" tools do exist...they are called Parametric Tools in the App onshape. 1 Quote Link to comment
0 Christiaan Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 (edited) I might refer to this as constraints modelling. Siemans calls this Synchronous modelling, no? Rather than being a specific tool (or Marionette object) you want to be able to apply rules-based (or dimensional) constraints/edits to any object, right? Edited October 24, 2017 by Christiaan Quote Link to comment
0 digitalcarbon Posted October 23, 2017 Author Share Posted October 23, 2017 was thinking that this approach would allow a person to model any type of stair then have it adjust if & when the model around it moved in anyway. you would not be constricted by a Stair Tool that cannot anticipate the infinite stair designs one throws at it. Quote Link to comment
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