Beiträge von Thorvald

I am beginning to be needing a sufficient method to make facade drawings - because we are beginning to more work on our own shoulders and needs therefore the possibility to make presentation drawings for projects. And for that one needs to make facadedrawings. Untill now I have made some of the facadedrawings by making them manually in PlanCad and in the last case I used OpenGL pictures of the facades, scaled to correct scale as facadedrawings. None of the methods are very satisfying. I wonder how you out there are doing it.

Today, I remembered a function in D-Cam (8-4) to hide everything behind objects that are in front. I thought this would be a good way to make facadedrawings - but the problem was that it took very, very, very, very, very, very long time for the computer to complete this command. This was only a 120 m2 house in 2 stories. So I guess it would be impossible on bigger houses. So I wonder if that is the way you do it?

This could be a point for the wishlist:
I would like a seperate function: file/drawings/store/facadedrawings. This function automatically creates the facadedrawings for all 4 (or more) facades - like if you used function (8-4) + save current view. In the dialogbox there could be following choices:
- Automatically create facadedrawings from 4 sides of the house.
- Choose what sides to make drawings of.
- The possibilty to choose planes at an angle to x-y plane.
- The possibilty to choose planes that goes through the house (it could be that you have an "inside facade" (atrium)).
- Choose if you want all facades in one drawing file. Example 4 "normal" facades, and perhaps a submenu where you can choose the location of the single facades.
- Choose to get a single drawing file for each facade.
- Choose if you want a normal line drawing.
- Choose if you want a drawing with shadows (submenu with position of sun - or that you in another part of the program tells the program what direction is North, and in the drawing menu you choose the time of the day and the program automatically makes correct shadows).
- Choose if you want a line drawing with rendered surfaces - i.e. with colors and textures that you have used.

This would indeed be a very nice drawing function! Can we get it in version 8?...

Ok, I see. That was sufficient answer. Then I must try to get that laptop with Nvidia grapfic card, in case I would buy it (some day - or another laptop).

Hi.

From time to time, I fall in love with a computer (but I don't buy them all...) E.g. I buy if it's time for a new computer.

For the moment I am in love with LG R710-SAP77V. But the computers in this 710 series all have ATI Graphic card and in this computer it is ATI® MobilityTM Radeon® HD3650 (512MB VRAM, 1,983MB Hyper Memory) and Windows Vista Home Premium. Will it be so from version 8, that it doesn't matter so much if you use Nvidia or ATI grapfic cards?? - That one will get the same performance from cards on same level?

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Zitat von Jim Rogers

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Another way to do it is with a screen capture option on your keyboard. Pressing the Prt Scr button, (if you have one) will capture a screen image of your screen and place it onto your computer's clipboard.
From there you open a program like MSPaint and then paste that image onto that screen.
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This is the method I normally use. Excepth from I use Paint Shop Pro to paste the image into....

Well - the other comment about resizng the big format picture is of course correct. But you might think about advances and disadvantages.

- High resolution and big format pictures saved from OpenGL: This method takes a long time and you have to resize the picture afterwards.
- The method with high resolution prints to PDF gives PDF-pictures that looks as good as or even perhaps better than from the first method. And if you are not going to put the picture on a drawing you are finished. (Except from that the PDF-picture for some reason is rotated 180 degr., I have no idea why). In the cases where you want to get a picture out of it you can make screen dump, or maybe you have software that can convert PDF to JPEG.

See my examples.

Yeah, to make a factor 7, I had to write 7000.

Hmmmm., this I don't understand - If I change the ratio to t.ex 3 the size of the picture becomes very small. Aah, I understand now - because you might work in meters and I in millimeters. Ok had to go up to a factor 7 to get a acceptable result. This makes the files size of the png-file huge, and going higher was not possible for computerpower. Then it is possible to take a screen-dump when viewing the picture, and save that - and that reduces the file size drastically - from 71 Mb to 180 Kb...

I found another method that also worked quite well. This is to take high resolution prints to PDF-file. If you then wants picture files that you can insert on drawings you can again make screen dumps when viewing the pdf-file.

Hi.

Why is it that when I log on the forum is opened in another window?? I know I have changed some settings trying to make something else work better, but it seems to have made things worse.... But exactly what settings I must change back (and back to what) I am not sure of. I think it is something aboute secure websites or sites that you trust or whatever. Anyone?

I think I would like to try option 2, I tried option 1, but is not very satisfied. But where do I set this zoom factor that you talk about in option 2??

Ok great, sounds interesting. I will look at these things when I am more ready to make the pictures. I still have a few things to make on the model - like a garage and small houses for bicycles etc. But those I will just make as volume models for now.

Hi.

Is it possible to avoid these shadows that makes the white wooden facade look with a lot of black, when viewing from distance? I always use "textures and edges" mode, because it gives the most correct view (at least when closer to the house. The facade is made from profiled beams, as you can see on the detailed view. Maybe it is something about light, but I don't know what settings to use. Or can it be something about lines from structure objects behind facade boards (even though the facade panels are about 50 mm from other parts of the wall behind)??

Any suggestions how to make it look better, or I just have to take the pitures at a closer view?

Oh great, that worked perfectly. I thought I had already been there, but obviously not exactly in that way.

Hi. I have somehow messed up my ceilings. I had made some ceilings for GF1 og GF2. Then I decided that the ceiling for GF1 should belong to BA and the ceiling for GF2 should belong to GF1. This I thought I could do in Building MOS. But the ceiling areas didn't follow.

Now I would like to start over with the ceilings and deleted GF2 deleted ceilings for GF1, and made new ceiling areas for GF1. But when I came to the ceilings in BA and made new ceiling areas I found that I suddenly had 6 ceilings in BA and 3 as supposed to. I would like to delete all the ceilings in BA, but how to delete them in building MOS?? In ceiling areas there apears 6 ceilings in the list, but there are really only 3, the others just contains beams.

Allright, thanks for the information. In version 8 it will be even easier to exchange information of different kind between different users, as far as I have understood.

For the hollow core slabs I have calculated the weight per length from a cross section that I put into D-Cad. And this I have written into material database, and it works quite well. We are at our factory (also) produsing the slabs ourself, as well as concrete walls, wooden walls etc.

For concrete plates, like walls, I am using a material under sheating, boards and panels, that I call concrete aux, and this I have given the weigth pr. m3. This also works, also for sections where part of the concrete wall is thicker than other parts (like in sandwich elements).

If / when I send this project to my coworkers, to make production drawings etc. - they cannot make this "determining values" in D-Cam, unless if they have the same material database as I have, right? How to send that to them, I have to send the whole folder, right? And this is DHPDBA, if I remember correct?

Hmm., still nobody. Well after I put some hollow core slabs in a ceiling I went to material database and input the weight of the HCS in kg/m. Then I put a new HCS in the ceiling. Then determined values in D-Cam - but they were exact the same - so I am not sure if D-cam calculates the value after profile's weight reference or after the kg/m2 weight of the concrete (after calculating the volume). But the values are appr. as the values I could determine with help from PlanCad.

I just wonder if it is enough to give material database the weight of the material (kg/m3) and then use that material or if I have to give the weight reference for each profile??

Yeah, Markus have shown me a bit of the main window in version 8. And I liked it. I was just wondering if these things as I mentioned will be possible in PlanCad?

Also the feature, that you can open more than one project in different windows is something I am going to like very much. Yes I must try to be patient... But I feel like a small child before christmas...

Hi - I could think of many ideas to improve the program, but since I have probably already mentioned some of the ideas else where, I will spare you for that.

Just on thing I just thought about - if this will be a new function in version 8: When working on several part-projects within a project it can be a bit confusing to keep order in the different drawings for the different parts (t.ex. buildings) within the same project. I.e. if there are more than one building in the project. It could perhaps be convenient to have maybe a kind of a folder structure within PlanCad - so that drawings for building 1 is in one folder and for building 2 in another folder. So when you open one folder you see only drawings from that building. It is ok for me if the drawing file numbers starts from 0 for each folder. These folders could naturally follow the positions in the main project. So that position 1 contains building 1 etc. and drawings for building 1 are solely contained in "folder 1" in PlanCad. In this way one could also have a position for miscellangelous drawings, test drawings, test models etc. - but still within the project where it belongs.

Hmm., I thought it was an easy question... ??

I know how to get the weight and center of gravity of a wall. And I know it is possible to choose layers or all layers. What about the volume of t.ex. concrete material in m3 in a wall - how to get that. And take for example a concrete sandwich element: Here it would be nice to get the values volume and weight of concrete for layers separately, and for the whole element (or the values for the whole element can be calculated maunally from the other mentioned values).