Beiträge von Thorvald

Hello.

It seems to me that sometimes the color of the story overview is changing in different situations. Sometimes it is black, with green current wall and red arrow and sometimes it is red, with green current wall and red arrow and sometimes.

I prefer that it is black or maybe grey, with green current wall and red arrow. Is there a setting anywhere to gain this allways??

Aah, you mean, when you take out wall drawings and under general settings??

Hi.

Is there a setting - and where - to change the number of decimals from t.ex 920.000 to 920, when one have opening description on wall drawings??

In timber list, the wood dimensions are also shown as t.ex. 47.000 x 200.000. Is this connected to above question?

Hi.

Is it possible to exchange .pla-files? An example is, that my drawer insert my drawing blocks on the drawing - but the result is another than I expected, because I made a mistake, when I took the wall drawings from the design program. Then I take out the wall drawings again with other settings, and send to my drawer, the new .pla files. But he says it doesn't work. Should it not be possible this way??

You are right Der_planer - I didn't know that, but now I do. I have been suggested these two cards:

Sapphire RADEON X1950 PRO and XFX GeForce 7950 GT, bot with 512 MB ram and both for AGP.

Yeahh - but it is also a bit expensive, but on the other hand I am going to work with even bigger projects, so maybe I should just go for it - so I can enjoy the work.

The next question would be - exactly what graphic card I should go for?? One example could be NVidia Geforce 9800GX2. Should I go for more ram - t.ex. min. 512 MB?

As you might have understood, I am working with fairly large projects - and one thing that could improve the performance of computer is better graphic cards when it comes to problems in OpenGL. But at a certain limit even on my laptop the program chrashed and deleted 3 stories and left only a small basement floor. Luckily I have trained my 6th sence after advice from Der_planer and I had a recent backup copy of the project, so I didn't loose much. Then I realized that maybe I should delete all assisting geometry (architect plans) and now I am almost finished with all 3 stories + roof of this quite big house. Well it is still a little heavy in OpenGL but yet much better in the design modules.

I think a problem is that DXF is so heavy as it is. One example is a architecture plan that is 2,32 MB in DWG and converted to DXF it is 24,8 MB. So of course the building model becomes heavy when having 4 of these plans...

My suggestion for further development for Dietrichs is to do something about this. The smartest thing could be to be able to use DWG directly, both in import and export - because the connection to AutoCad is also a bit weak - and in some cases you have to exchange information with "AutoCad people". Another possibility could be - t.ex. in coorporation with AutoDesk - to develop another drawing file format that is even lighter than DWG. Then when you import a dwg the Dietrichs program automatic converts to this "lightweight dwg" format. The same at export, so the exported result is dwg.

I don't understand what kind of information you want to copy. It is possible to assign timber members to whatever element you want. Example: You have a building where the one half is a mirrored copy of other half. So t.ex ceiling structure you can mirror in D-Cam. But then the mirrored part maybe should belong to another ceiling number - this you can do in D-Cam. But it is possibly not what you are asking for.

Maybe another example is that you have some facadeboards and for some reason they are not of same color - then you would like to "copy & paste" the correct color to the other boards??

If you start OpenGL in other moduls it is working?
- No.
In wall design and DICAM you can start OpenGL with smaller projects?
- Yes.
How many RAM does have the Graphic card?
- 256MB of DDR memory
And as I wrote I use Windows XP Pro.

On my laptop, I can start OpenGL with the same project, but this is also an NVidia GeForse Go 7600 grapfic card, and Windows Vista.

Hello.

On my desktop computer I get a problem with OpenGl. It is probably when the project reach a certain size. But I need to be able to do these big projects. When I open openGL in wall design or D-Cam I get a black screen.

A little about my computer:
Windows XP Pro sp2
Pentium 4, 3,2 GHz
2 GB Ram
Graphic card is Radeon 9550

So what could improve my work on this computer? Is it a new graphic card? More ram?

What about "reflex silver"... ???

Hmm., then our architect is crazy?? But ok - I knew that already.... :lol:

Hi.

It seems like there is missing a color under "colors" in texturesets. That is RAL9000, light grey.

Hello.

I have discovered something amd I am wondering if it is a new feature or maybe an unknown side effect of software programming.

You have al wall with door or window, you put gypsum at the wooden structure, that are automatically cut around the opening. Then you change the door window to another size and / or move it. The cut in the gypsum are automatically updated!!????

This is quite amazing!

Aaaaah - this tip is very nice. I didn't reqognize that. Is there a similar possibility in wall design??

When you look after a notebook avoid those with graphic cards with shared memory. If you still have a problem to find a notebook, tell me what screen size you would like and maybe I can give you examples of good notebooks.

Seems like I might stand alone with these problems??

Hello. I think it would be nice if the numbering system from ground plan, also was inoperated in ceiling areas. So that it would be possible to change the order of ceiling areas. When working with concrete elements, it is convenient to have a ceiling area for each concrete slab.

I have a small wish for the wish-list: The possibility to simply change a wall number and all walls with numbers after this walls goes a number up. Now you have to renumber all walls untill you reach the wall you want to renumber...