The purpose behind these special interest group meetings is to cover a range of topics that might be slowing down the attendees. In the session we looked at worksheets, how to put window so that it suits a stair landing, how to use layer colours, how to texture a floor…
Wall Styles are a great productivity tool when drawing buildings. They make it quick to change from one wall type to another when you are drawing, they can be stored in your library so that you can use the Wall Styles on every project and the make it easy to change…
If you store your wall styles in your user folder or workgroup folder, they can be selected directly from the pop-up menu on the Tool bar.
Top Level Walls. The top level walls are similar to the rest of the walls in the file, but they need to be set up so that the top bounding is not the Finished Floor (Story Above). The top level has no story above, so the walls do not know…
Lower Level Walls. These walls can be more complex than the foundation walls as we can add components to allow us to see the walls more accurately, in plan, elevation and section. You might be used to just showing the framing on your plans, so it might not make sense…
Foundation Walls. We can start with these walls, because they are the least complex. The foundation walls can use the graphic style of the class they are assigned to and they can be set up to link to the finished floor of the story above.
In this session the attendees wanted to look at section viewports, using the clip cube to make section viewports, how to move section markers, and how to use class overrides in viewports. For this session I used to three-story building that I have used previously.
Continuing on with the multi-unit project. In this session we wanted to link 3 house files to the site model. As well as that, we want to be able to create a plan of the site showing the roof plans, and a site plan showing the ground floor plans. It…
In this session we looked at a complex roof and how to deal with it. The trick is to break the roof into sections and deal with each section separately. Part of this process uses the old Fit Walls to Roof… command which has now been renamed Fit Walls to Objects…
When you have a lot of walls in your Wall Style Library, it can be difficult to find the walls you want, so naming the wall styles to suit you is important. The default wall style names don’t suit me, because I like to have the dimensions first. This a screen…