Beiträge von Thorvald

Yeah - looks quite good as well. But ProgeCad is also a very good software I think. For example it can convert pdf to dwg.

I know Dwg TrueView, but that is only a viewer. I have just downloaded progeCad 2009 Smart, that is a free version of the ProgeCad cad-software. It seems like a very nive program - very much like AutoCad and I could consider to buy the full professional version, as it costs less than 300 Euro - and who knows how much AutoCad costs today...

Does there exist stand alone programs, that has the only goal in life to scale dxf / dwg drawings? And perhaps it has a function to ignore dimensions (scale dimensions without changing the dimension values). Perhaps the same program also has a function to convert / save as, dxf drawings to dwg and the other way around.
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Aahhh ok - that is indeed a different and more complicated situation.

So you didn't know what format the drawing was made in? - Or maybe it's just much more simple in the metric world.

Well - that sounds complicated. You know what scale you have made your drawing in and you know what scale you want. For example I have made a drawing in 1:75. Let's say the electrician want it in 1:50. Then he simply scale my drawing with a factor 75 / 50 = 1,5. Or if he want 1:100: 75 / 100 = 0,75. Easy and simple. Or he want the drawing in 1:1, because when you work in modelspace in AutoCad you work in 1:1. Then the factor to scale with is 75 / 1 = 75. What you are doing sounds way more complicated than it has to be.

Yeah - but they know what scale my drawing is, because that they can see on my drawing. They just need to know that they should scale it to for example 1:1 before they start to draw the electrical installations for example. So from my point of view it shouldn't be a big problem in AutoCad to say "scale all" (or what the name of the function is) and scale it with a factor 75, if my drawing is 1:75. See attached example - oh can't - dwg and dxf are not allowed attachments - but you probably knows how a drawing exported to dwg looks anyway.

The reason why we came about to talk about it, is that the electrician said that only 1:50 and 1:100 is standard in AutoCad - but I can't see why he is saying that, because normally you work in 1:1 in AutoCad.

Hi.

When I export D-Cad to dfx and then convert dxf to dwg - because in some cases other people need the drawing in dwg - I have encountered that it is a problem that the dwg-drawing is in the same scale as in Dietrichs. In Autocad you would normally work in 1:1. It seems like they don't always see that they should just scale the drawing they get from me to 1:1, before they start working on it.

I don't know if this import function have improved in the newer versions of Dietrichs - t.ex. with a function to scale the drawing to 1:1 as it is exported to dxf. Also it is my experience that the export take all layers in the drawing even though it is not all layers that are used. So before an export one has to clean up in the layers first. It would be better if Dietrichs only exported the layers that are "on".

But can I somehow with Dietrichs scale the drawing to 1:1 during the work of exporting it to dxf - or during the convert from dxf to dwg. I use A9Converter to convert from dxf to dwg. Maybe there are other, better free programs?

Hi.

Yes, it helped to say that the slices 0 and inwards, are core slices. I just don't think I normally do that and normally it works (I think). But anyway it doesn't matter that more than the slice 0 is said to be core slice - it's just a practical definition.

Yes? How to solve that?

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I have some roof build-up. But for some reason not all layers of the roof build up is seen in roof calculation section view or in D-Cam section view. All layers 0,+1,+2,+3 etc. are shown, but none below layer 0. In the definition of the roof properties I have set all layers to show a panel of the layer.

What can be wrong, what can I try to look at, to fix it?

Yeah, there are some good examples there.

Why I have to be crazy to try it? Hahahahaha. That would be a welcome challenge (I think). Hehehehe. But you're right - it doesn't look easy.

But that also means that there are no automated way to do it. Hmmm, maybe there is an easier way. Hmmmm, thinking, thinking.

Why not just make for example a short column piece, with hexagonal base (for example) and slightly angled edges. Then copy that on top of each other and rotating it a little each time. Then when finished, combining these pieces to one column. That would give the sort of twisted columns I first reffered to - I think.

Maybe?

Well - just asking of curiosity - is it possible to make such twisted columns in Dietrichs... See here. Any ideas of a way it could possibly be done in Dietrichs?

Aha ok - so that would be the easiest way to transfer Dietrichs program with all settings from one computer to another??

What do you mean - could one just copy the whole C:\DIETRICHS07_03 directory/folder from one computer to another? What about hardlock keys - how to get that into the program - or is it included if one copies all C:\DIETRICHS07_03 folder? What do you mean about database and holzlist - why would I need setup for that? Is the database not contained in the dhpdba folder??

Hi.

One of my collegues in Lithuania needs new computer and needs to know how to install/transfer Dietrichs from old computer to new computer. I will need that soon also. I have a slight idea how I would do it - main problem for me is that I don't have installation CD for the version I have now (I got it via a internet download). Don't remember if I made a CD/DVD...

Well anyway - is it correct that if you copy the folders I have shown below to the Dietrichs installation on the new computer - then all settings, wall properties etc., material database, custom textures etc. are "safe"??

Yeah - that was a simple solution. Perhaps why nobody provided a solution can be that none of us have had the need to make such a roof...

Yeah - how did you do it? Maybe other's don't know, so share that information with us. I am not sure how I would do it - I have slight idea, but I don't know if it would work. I have no need to make such roof (so far).

Ok, so in princip I should write 2000, but it doesn't seem to make much difference.

- But thanks alot - now it looks normal. The last settings - distances - are they in m or mm? Everything else in my program is mm.