Samuel Derenboim Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 (edited) Any way to just generally convert a polygon into a roof face without specifying slope? or any other information? Lets say you have a 3d polygon with a series of sloping edges. My goal is to extract the sloping edges from that model - and create them with roof faces in their place. Any way to quickly do that? The only work around i see is to create a series of roof / facets in a 3d geometric object and then use shell solid tool to give it a thickness. It's crude, but very quick and effective. Edited October 3, 2016 by Samuel Derenboim Quote Link to comment
Samuel Derenboim Posted October 3, 2016 Author Share Posted October 3, 2016 something interesting - why do Sketchup models when imported with sloped faces can be easily converted to sloped roof objects? But we can't easily do that within vectorworks itself? Quote Link to comment
AlanW Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 (edited) I think that the roof tools only work with 2D polys and not a 3D poly. Why do you want to not use the AEC create Roof Face??? One way is to use Marionette. See attached creates roof faces from polygons. Actually you can create the walls, roof, gutter, slab all from one polygon. In the files just run the networks. Roofs_Mult_Run_004_v2016.vwx House_V002.vwx Edited October 6, 2016 by Alan Woodwell Quote Link to comment
Samuel Derenboim Posted October 6, 2016 Author Share Posted October 6, 2016 Thank you Alan! I'm looking the marionette, very interesting! Just need to convert metric to imperial units! In fact, I'm currently experimenting with it now. I still don't have my head fully wrapped around marrionnette, but i will keep at it! This is an example of a roof that's fairly complex but that's fairly easy to create out of 3d polylines. Converting it to an actual roof is very tedius. Any suggestions? test roof.vwx Quote Link to comment
AlanW Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 (edited) @Samuel DerenboimHi, You can look at my youtube channel (Alan Woodwell) where i explain a lot of these networks. If you need help just ask. Edited October 7, 2016 by Alan Woodwell Quote Link to comment
AlanW Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 (edited) @Samuel DerenboimHi, Here is your roof created from 2d polys and roof faces. test_roof_AW.vwx Edited October 7, 2016 by Alan Woodwell Quote Link to comment
Samuel Derenboim Posted November 4, 2016 Author Share Posted November 4, 2016 Alan, Thank you for that! Although a great feature request would be to have a low point for the roof and a high point for the roof in the tools itself - without specifying rise/run or angle. It should calculate it automatically. Infact - it would be great if it was combined with stories - similar to the way stairs work. Wouldn't that be a sight? Quote Link to comment
mgries Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Hi @Alan Woodwell, Great job on these marionettes! I'm trying to use a chunk of the V002 script (just slab and walls) in VW2019. I'm pretty much a novice with marionette, so I'm running into few obstacles I'm hoping you can help me with... The 1st issue I'm having is that when the walls get created, the insertion options associated with the wall style I'm using are getting overridden. Instead of the height being bound by story levels, it reverts to layer elevation. And instead of the wall object coming in on a specific class, it reverts to the current class. As mentioned, both of these parameters are hard wired into the wall style I'm using, as insertion options, so I wasn't expecting the marionette to override any of this, and can't understand where this is happening. In addition, regardless of the class the objects come in on, the whole thing comes in as a group within a group, and with the opacity overridden to 95%. This is a complete riddle to me. Any idea what going on here? Finally, is there any quick way to spread out 2016 nodes when the file is transferred to 2019? Because of autoscaling introduced in future releases, the 2016 marionette nodes are all bunched up, sitting on top of each other. Thanks, Matt Quote Link to comment
AlanW Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 (edited) @mgriesHi, post a small file here and i can have a look for you. Will check how to spread out the nodes. As i recall its the scale that you create it at and the updated file needs to be the same scale. I possibly created it at 1:100 Metric. will check. Check the wall style they may be set up for layer heights. Edited December 11, 2018 by Alan Woodwell Quote Link to comment
mgries Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 @Alan Woodwell, ok here's the file with a a couple of screenshots added. You can see that the wall style is set up for story/levels. Thanks! Marionette House V002-MOD_mgries.vwx Quote Link to comment
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