Beiträge von Thorvald

Hi - are there other candidates for "worlds tallest wooden building"??

Cool... Thank you - that I would never have figured out...

Good morning...

Now I am sufficient tired of this, so here is the position attached.

Edit: Attachment deleted.

As far as I can read, the article says it is one of the highest - and (maybe) not the highest. I would like to read the article in English, is that possible? I am asking because I want to built the highest wooden house in the world, so I want to know what is today's highest. It would be very sad, if I find out too late that I should have added 2 stories more... :roll:
In Denmark there were plans to built 4 8 storey houses, and I was about to get hold on that project - but the people behind the project gave up - unfortunately... See here http://www.osterbo.dk/Files/Bi…jekter/traehus_folder.pdf
I know it is in Danish, but you can see the picture.

Half of the house was mirrored at Z-Y, but this was a mistake at that time, why I made an undo to that operation. It is only the two exterior walls at the upper left corner that has a problem. If in D-cam I select these two walls and hide them, the rest of the construction is zoomed correct.

I can't find anything. Perhaps I will send the project. But for now I will let it be, it's not very important. But if anybody have other ideas, just let me know.

Yes of course...

Hi.

What is world's tallest wooden building??? I have found russian gangster's 13 storey wooden house - but is that the answer?

They are too small on the screen.

I have 2 walls, that cannot be zoomed to fill the screen. This seems also to affect groundplan view and D-cam plan view. I have checked if some of the walls should not be connected. It worked before, I was just working with making drawings.

Hi.
The feature to take out material lists for a project is a great feature, but the function could be improved a lot. One thing is that it should be possible to output to Excel or similar programs of choice. Secondly the list should automatically assemble all wood of same type and size (47x75 and 75x47 is in the same list). Attached is an example of how the resulting list could be looking like. This is made on a small project, by copying the timberlists from drawings into excel and modifying the data. For example the number of pieces 3x, should be exported to excel as 3, so that these cells can be used to create formulas from. Perhaps Dietrichs could use excel formulas for calculations.

Hi. When you select to view wall numbers you also get the window and door numbers. I could wish that to view the door and window numbers was an option, because they disturb and I never used them, so far. Perhaps another option could be to show wall names, because for production, wall names are more usefull than just numbers. Another option could be to show wall numbers / names for a selection of walls - because some walls one just make for secondary items.

Dietrichs has a lot of different modules, as far as I understand. Some are specialized for log-houses, some for timber frames, some for SIP's. And then there are different levels of the program including more or less smaller modules, like elementation etc. In addition there are some small modules, perhaps a lot, that can be bought as well, like stair module etc. Some of these things I think - maybe - should be included in the "start package". I understand also the reason why it is as it is - because the one man carpenter company doesn't need as much as a big factory and one factory doesn't need log-house module, because they don't build log-houses.

If you want all, you can buy all - but then the program becomes extreemely expensive.

But - I must agree with Vilmantas in, that it is impossible to know what possibilities there are and what one might find useful. You - Dietrichs - should do your self and your customers a favour and make a complete description on your website of the program, levels and all modules that are included in what levels and what can be bought separately - and prices for everything. Then the customer should be able to pick parts of the program and see what could be interesting - and see what is the total price for his choices. When one is done, it should be able to send the list of chosen items to one's salesman for a discussion about if one needs these things, for a final offer and for purchace. This will also be good for marketing because potential customers can see the great possibilities in the program and that they doesn't need to buy all from the beginning.

Ok, this answer sounds useful, because this was the answer from progeCad:

"Thank you for your mail.

progeCAD can already edit and convert all DWG and DXF files to and from
AutoCAD, this is absolutely no problem.

As for 3D models, it will be possible if they are 3D wireframe DXF models
or meshes. Also if Dietrichs uses ACIS SAT files, progeCAD can read those
(progeCAD Professional version includes ACIS 3D solids editing AND AutoCAD
wireframe mesh command support)

I hope that helps."

Ok, I just tried again and it seemed to work well, with a drawing from PlanCad, export to DXF and open in dwg viewer. Perhaps it was earlier I had problems with it. It seems to work ok, except that it seems to convert the millimeter measurements to meter and I don't know if the drawing in Acad will be 1:1 or "paperspace" size?? Also measurements that are close to each other in PlanCad is not positioned the same way as in PlanCad but are on top of each other in dwg.

What about converting complete 3D model from Dietrich to dwg??

I wrote this e-mail to a company with a Cad-program, because I find that the communication dwg --> Dietrichs and Dietrichs --> dwg is a bit difficult and can cause headaches...

"I am very interested in progeCad and I am having a question. I am using another software called Dietrichs ( see http://www.dietrichs.com ) 99,9% of my time and I simply love that software. But sometimes the possibility to open dwg drawings, draw on them, make measurements etc. would be a great advantage. But use $6000-8000 for that? No way! The only disadvantage of this software is the communication to and from dwg-files. This communication is sometimes useful or even required. The communication from dwg files to my program is necessary, because most architect drawings are delivered in dwg. This is also in most cases not a big problem, because I can convert the dwg files to dxf, that my program can read in 2D. So in most cases this is not a big problem (but sometimes it is).

Would progeCad be able to read the dwg files and safe them as dxf files (version 2000)??

Another thing is from Dietrich to dwg. It is possible to export 2D drawings to dxf, that can be opened in AutoCad. This is possible, but perhaps not perfect since measurements seems not to be transferred (probably because of the nature of the dxf - format). It would be excellent if progeCad could on an instant read Dietrichs 2D drawings directly and then one could safe them as original dwg drawings. Would this be possible??

A third thing could be to convert complete 3D models Dietrichs to dwg and dwg to Dietrichs via progeCad - this could in some cases also become convenient.

If these things are not possible, maybe it would be possible to develop it in coorporation with Dietrichs - especially the convertion from Dietrichs to dwg, because a complete file with all drawings etc. in dwg, is sometimes required by project-holders."

Please give comments, because I cannot be the only one who could have customers / authorities who wants the project in dwg.

Yeah it might work. I thought that the dashed hidden lines would be visible, but they are not. (Depends probably if you check "hidden lines" or not, when one take out the drawing).

The other options under "Display" - sketch, object hidden and shade: Sketch could work as well, because it processes quite fast, but the other 2 takes too long time.

But still - a "facade drawing" function should appear on the wishlist.

I do more or less that same as Jim Rogers. I draw a line from the 2nd to perpendicular on the top line, and then I can make such measurements. But to put such lines on a seperate layer, was a quite good idea, because I normally delete such help line when the drawing is finished.

Yeah I have heard about this "freitext" option before, but never really tried it. Now I tried it and it works ok for this purpose. But in this way it is difficult to control that the facadeboards doesn't get too wide and stuff like that. Another thing was that I couldn't find a texture of 2-on-one facades.

The very best result is gained by building up the facade of real wood - this I do when I am going to present the building in more detailed and closer views. But in this case, I think I can maybe live with the result as it is now.

Hi. We have the texture "Horizontal sheatings" in different colors - but of course not in the color Í need - i.e. white or lightgrey white. Funny, because lots of houses are built with white wooden facades... What to do? I could make the facade with woodbeams, painted white as I have done before, but in this case it would be too much work, since the model is just for presentation of a project.