"Dumb" 3D Models to play nicer with "Smart" 3D Models

[Jim Smith]

This is a request that comes from my post in the Architecture Area:

 

I would like "Dumb" 3D Models (3D shapes)  to have an enhanced ability to get converted to "Smart" 3D Models i.e.  a Model of Walls, Doors, Windows, Roofs etcetera. Presently this only works, to a degree, and only with the outline of the 3D Model. Specifically I would like to be able to take a 3D Model made from basic 3D & reshaped polygons and apply openings to the Model that could then be transformed into PIO's.

 

To my simple mind, this would allow those who presently use Sketch-up as a Mass Model tool to skip SU all together and just use VW. It would also give us who presently mostly work in 3D, but in Plan with the Wall tool a more fluid workflow choice. 

 

 

 

 

[AlanW]

Is this the sort of thing you were thinking of. Instant creation from a polygon?? This concept would need to be further advanced to create all the other components but possible.

 

 

[Jim Smith]

Very cool Alan! Not what I have in mind but very cool.

I want to be free of the 2D plan shape I want to  play in 3D; create 3D shapes,  openings (doors, windows and roofs) & be able to convert the 3D shape C/W openings into a a series of Walls, & openings that I can then edit, move & change. Just like our normal 3D model.

 

I guess what best describes what I'd like to see is this:

A VW process that allows one to draw in 3D in basic shapes  à la  SU that then allows the 3D Shape drawn as a "3D VW SU model" to be converted to VW PIO's. 

 

Presently one may make a 3D model  à la  SU in VW, but the ability to convert the "DUMB" SU style Model to the kind of "SMART" 3D model that many of us use, just isn't quite there.

 

Edited March 7, 2017 by Jim Smith