excavating Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 I am using VW12. Dose anybody have a good way to make beam pockets in walls? Quote Link to comment
Damon Design Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 You can create 3D polys for the beams and place them appropriately into the walls and use subtract solids tool. [ 02-28-2006, 11:40 AM: Message edited by: Damon Design ] Quote Link to comment
CipesDesign Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 But if you subtract solids from a wall object it will no longet behave like a wall object (it will become a 3d solid), so make sure that your design is "final" before doing so... Quote Link to comment
Damon Design Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 Yep. If you want it to remain a wall you would have to use the 3D reshape tool to the beam geometry-then it would have to extend through the wall. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Robert Anderson Posted March 1, 2006 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted March 1, 2006 You could make a beam pocket as a symbol that gets inserted in a wall or on a wall face. Quote Link to comment
MKingsley Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 "and I the text file on the Mac where you can edit the roof framing members without starting VectorWorks." Jonathan, could you explain that a little further? Quote Link to comment
Jonathan Pickup Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 If you make the beams in 3d, which is easy if you frame the roof, then you can use the fit walls to roof command and VectorWorks will reshape the walls to suit the beams. The roof framing commands should not be dismissed for this situation, you can edit the roof framing members, it?s really quick to frame a roof, and I the text file on the Mac where you can edit the roof framing members without starting VectorWorks. Creating roofs, roof framing and fit walls to roof is covered in my VectorWorks architect manual available from my web site. Quote Link to comment
excavating Posted March 1, 2006 Author Share Posted March 1, 2006 Making a symbol and inserting it into my walls works well in my application. Thank you everybody for all the input. Craig Marshall Excavating, LLC Quote Link to comment
Jonathan Pickup Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 Michael K, when you use the roof framer, VectorWorks calls a text file that contains your standard roof framing sizes. This text file can be edited outside VectorWorks which makes it quicker to edit, and you can copy and paste between files. Check out: your user name > Library > Application Support > VectorWorks > 12 > Plug-ins > VW_Arch > Data > here are the files. I?ll put more information on my blog about this... Quote Link to comment
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