Beiträge von Thorvald

Materials like SPF is given 400-600 kg/m3 as weight reference - but how can the program then calculate the weight of a wood structure - is it using the average value 500 kg/m3. Profiled beams on the other hand is given kg/m as reference.

My hollow core slabs, I should probably give kg/m as reference. Or can I simply use kg/m3 and then the program will calculate the true section area of the hollow core slab and then give the correct weight of one slab?? But if I want to have a material "concrete", that I will use primarily as a panel material, then I can make "concrete" in the same way as t.ex. OSB and give it 2450 kg/m3 as weight reference??? And then I will get correct weight of wall elements, etc. Would this work also on walls that I have already made a model of??

Yeah, after a bit work. But it is a point for wishlist to have a function that can make this kind of view. Perhaps as simple section cuts (but these you cannot show in OpenGL). Or as viewplane function that we have been talking about before - similar to a function in Tekla.

Hmm. Ok, I see what you mean, but it is not exactly how I like it. See attached picture. This I have made by copying the floor element to a new position. Then I made a big piece of wood, rotated it in D-Cam and used intersecting volumes to receive the cut. This kind of section cut is what I am really talking about. A function that can do this in wall design, in ceiling design, roof design and in D-cam, would be quite nice. This picture is going to be used to describe the built-up of the floor.

Hi - well no, this is not what I am talking about. It is more like this picture, I am thinking about. But in my case the example is: I have a floor element t.ex. I would like to be able to make a cut section, that is not either vertical or horizontal, but in an angled plane through the floor element. So in this way the single layers becomes visible - and is possible to show in OpenGL. Do you understand what I mean?

Hi.

How to make a 3D section cut?? - if you understand what I mean. A angled cut, that you can show in OpenGL???

Ok, thanks, I understand now.

About material list take off, it seems like you have to make take off for walls, then for ceilings and then for roofs etc. Is it possible to take off a material list for a entire position?

A thing that is a bit unnecessary, is that the program t.ex. takes 47x200 and 200x47 as two different timber sizes. Then you have to "manually" calculate the total amount of 47x200, that you need.

Hi.

What is Dimension take off?? What does it do?

No, that is not what I meant. I meant if it is possible to take out a list of elements and the names that was given in the program. And this element could even be with the length and height / width of the elements.

Probably this would be possible more or less right away with wall elements. Except I am not 100% sure, because I am not using the wall numbers, but the names that you can assign to the walls.

But we would probably need more (or like to do more) than the program can do for the moment.

We are making lists of all our elements: Wooden wall elements, concrete wall elements, hollow core and massive slabs, single steel beams and columns, wooden roof elements etc., etc.

But as for now roof elements are not made as elements - eh I mean the model for the roof is made as one, and then when making production drawings we select the parts that are into that element in D-cam and make drawings from that. The same with ceilings.

I think I would like the following these to be possible if not already possible:
- Each wall element can be assigned with a name, both wooden walls and concrete walls. (This is possible).
- Each hollow core slab can be assigned with a element name. (Not possible).
- Each part (element) of a wooden ceiling can be assigned with a element name. (Not possible).
- To select parts in D-cam, and tell the program, that this is one element, with this name. This could be elements in roof, in ceiling, steel parts or other parts that together makes an element. (Not possible).
- For these parts / elements Dietrichs should then be able to make lists, with these elements, listed after element names, wooden or concrete elements, the size of element, the weight of the element, and for concrete elements the volume of concrete that goes into the element - and from that volume the weight of element, with reference to say 2,45 tons pr. m3. (This could of course be assigned in material database by the user, because there are different types of concrete).

I hope you get the idea, of what I think would be nice to have as possibilities in the program.

Is it possible and how - to get a list of elements, say walls??

Ok - new problem with this - or at least similar roof. The profile that should cover the ridges of the roof. First I tried to input it as a slanting rafter, but the profile was cut, so that was not a big success. Then I input it as a rafter and rotated it, to go over this edge of the roof. But the rafter, doesn't have the correct slope. So how to do that??

The top "normal" ridge of the roof can probably be done with a ridge beam.

Hi. I have been making a lot of profiles in the material database. T.ex. I have made some in profiled beams. But when I input them as rafters, the move from the point where I want to position them. My best guess is that it have something to do with the origin point. But I don't know how to determine it, and if that is the case - to get the correct origin. Is the origin the coordinate number 1 or is it always 0,0?? Because in this case my 0,0 is the coordinate number 10. Is it possible to correct whatever is wrong and how?

Another thing is, that in my head it seems natural to start with 0,0 in the lower left corner and then work my self through the profile to the right with positive coordinates. But if I input positive coordinates, the profile is drawn the left not to the right side of my first point. This is sometimes a bit irritating - I just don't understand the meaning of it?

Yes - the last thing was what I did.

I remember when I had AutoCad, I could import a picture file, and it is possible to draw on top of it. A nice thing in Autocad was that this imported object was scaleable as all other objects, so it was easy to scale to correct scale. In D-Cad imported pictures cannot be scaled.

I wonder what will happen, if you have an AutoCad drawing, with a scanned picture/drawing of t.ex. other buildings, roads etc. and you save this AutoCad as DXF. Insert this in D-Cad - what will happen to the scanned image - will it become editable lines as other lines you draw??

Aah ok, I was thinking about that maybe it was that explode thing that I was missing. But I don't have AutoCad so I could not explode it, and I didn't have time to get it done otherwise.

So I made a screen picture of the PDF, imported it into D-Cad, and by drawing on top of the picture with lines and splines, I had a fairly good success to make the drawing by "copying" the picture. I knew the width of one of the buildings on the "picture", so it was just to insert the picture with the correct size. And then I also knew the size of the new buildings so I could draw them in correct size. And after finishing the drawing, I could delete the picture and voila, I had a fairly ok situationplan. But it was here, that the freehand drawing tool would have been useful.

The feature "freehand lines", could perhaps sometimes be usefull to have in D-Cad - for making sketch drawings...

Ok - I have a situationmap, where some buildings are sketched. This I have in PDF. I would like to use these drawings as underlay for work in Dietrichs. It is possible to convert the PDF into DXF - I tried AideCad, and when I open it in DWG viewer it looks ok, but importing it into Dietrichs it is empty. What could that be?

Another possibility is to make a screenshot of the PDF, and import it as a picture in D-Cad. But how well will that work? Can I draw on top of the picture? Maybe because the background is white.

Ok - it worked fine! Thank's for the tip. The roof beams are not perfect - i.e. meeting each other perfectly symmetric, but there is a reason for that: The groundplan is square, but the two pairs of roof sides have slightly different angles to make this straight line in the top. But since the rafters are not going to be visible anywhere, these small differences will be covered.

I was thinking about slanting rafters - but then I thought "no", they would not do it. But ok - I have to give it a try.

Hi. I have this roof - almost pyramid roof. In my world this roof is made of 4 roof elements. When making the one element, I need a hip rafter (as far as I can see). But when I insert it, it always is inserted so the one hip rafter is shared by two roof surfaces. This I don't want. In each of the 4 hip lines, there should be two hip rafters - one at each side of the hip line.

How to do that?

Ah I understand this. This is not in PlanCad, but something like this could be nice.

Mybe this will make more icons, but I have an idea and a point for wishlist, that will save some icons. So for version 8: Today when you want to dimension vertical you have to choose vertical dimension, etc... It would be nice if you just choose distance- or baseline dimension and then the program itself finds out if you want to measure horizontal, vertical or angled. Maybe to choose vertical or horizontal with arrows on the keyboard - because sometimes you want to measure horizontal, but the points you choose are not in a horizontal line.