jcaia Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 I'm working on an office building where I will use glulams for column support - but combined with a decorative (yet structural) connection to a concrete base etc (example below). Should I be using this new Structural Member Tool for the beam/post component in this condition? I suppose I would then make a symbol just of the post base and connector, but leave the "Structural Members" separate but grouped with the symbol? Looking for a "best practices" based answer. Thank you. Quote Link to comment
Guest Wes Gardner Posted May 9, 2017 Share Posted May 9, 2017 From your detail, it looks as if the top face and bottom face of the glulam are NOT parallel. If this is the case, it's likely you'll need to model the glulam and then, as you've suggested, save it as a symbol for repeated installations. Quote Link to comment
Popular Post jcaia Posted May 10, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted May 10, 2017 (edited) Thanks Wes. I ended up doing just that - here is the result. This is the first BIM project I am doing in VW from start to finish (these are just prelim concepts). Edited May 10, 2017 by jcaia 5 Quote Link to comment
Guest Wes Gardner Posted May 11, 2017 Share Posted May 11, 2017 Nice! Once you've modeled an element, you may want to explore the Auto-Hybrid feature to get your object to appear correctly in plan view. Quote Link to comment
rDesign Posted May 11, 2017 Share Posted May 11, 2017 Very nice! Can you share with us how you achieved that desaturated, high-contrast rendering style on the interior view? It is quite an evocative, striking style - I really like it. Is that straight from Vw or was there some post-processing in Photoshop? Quote Link to comment
jcaia Posted May 11, 2017 Author Share Posted May 11, 2017 (edited) 1 hour ago, rDesign said: Very nice! Can you share with us how you achieved that desaturated, high-contrast rendering style on the interior view? It is quite an evocative, striking style - I really like it. Is that straight from Vw or was there some post-processing in Photoshop? Yes, I did use Photoshop for much of the effects. I'm just starting to play around with VW rendering and I hope to get closer to what I need as I learn. However, it only took 20-30min or so to do the work in Photoshop. I've found once you have the effect you want down repeating the steps goes fairly quick. Edited May 11, 2017 by jcaia 1 Quote Link to comment
rDesign Posted May 11, 2017 Share Posted May 11, 2017 Thanks for sharing your workflow. It looks like you are already pretty proficient in your Renderworks abilities, keep up the good work! 1 Quote Link to comment
Markvl Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 Ya, I've got to add to the sentiments here. Nice work @jcaia 1 Quote Link to comment
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