Beiträge von Thorvald

Yes exactly - I have new elements in both places, so I probably need to use 4-0 data exchange.

I guess, that I will get the problem, that the material database from the one computer, will overwrite the material database on the computer it is copied to...?

Hi. I think I have thins question somewhere, but I am not sure. But how to copy material database from one computer to another? Is it the HRB library?

Do I just define the holes with coordinates, as if they where a single section - and then the program automatic understand that this is a hole in the section??

Hi - and happy New Year!

Is it possible to define a section in material database like a concrete hollow core slab?? How to tell the material database, that I want these holes / channels in the slab? see also attached picture, where the holes are made by using intersecting volumes.

Depending on what kind of board you want at the inside, you can also use "post" to put in the boards as if they were wall timber. This is convenient if you want a wood board of some sort. You can also use material auxilaries like t.ex. #OSB = OSB material texture. The # means that you are now using an auxilary.

I have made materials with the color ral7023, I think this will do for my purpose - maybe in next house I will change it to the concrete texture to see what I like most.

Ok - but we are not using small panels. We use OSB boards as under-roof, wind stop etc. so here the roof is much like walls. Even if you have more complicated roofs, each roof surface or part of the roof, could be seen as a "wall", where you can put your boards. One option is maybe that I put the boards as rafters, with a OSB auxilary.

But is there any place where I can read about this in details?

I tried but I don´t think it worked out. Why it is not made in the same way as in wall and ceiling design, where you directly can put osb boards of sizes you define??? Why make it so complicated in roof design??

I don't use the automatic Dietrichs project folder - I make my own folder outside the C-drive. And if you have one HDD for C-drive and other drives for data, this solution is of course good, if the C-drive crash or you have to format it because of virus or other reasons. I don't really make back-up files frequently, but one idea could be to take a simple copy of the project folder for the actual projects - on another harddrive, or just another place, a CD or whatever. Or maybe make a ZD-file, compressed project and copy it somewhere else.

I am using Dietrichs 6.02 on Windows Vista. To my opinion 6.02 is a bit more unstable than 5.04, but I don't know if it is because of Vista or what. See also my other thread. in general it is going very well. I don't know if it is faster than on XP, because I have not tried on this computer because it is quite new computer, and I got version 6.02 because of this new computer.

Good you found out! I was not completely sure what you wanted to do. :oops:

Maybe you can mirror the two beams. Or you can copy the beams and for origin point choose a point on one beam and as position point choose the "same" point at the other beam.
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Would it be possible to split layer 0 in two layers, t.ex. layer 0 and 1 - where layer 0 is wood and layer 1 is steel. But the steel layer is in the same position in the wall as the wood???

No one knows???

Hi.

I was thinking that if I had a profiled steel beam and perhaps some auxilaries in steel, in a wall element, then when I put the drawing in PlanCad - the profiled beams and steel aux, would be in independent layers, so I could easily turn of all steel t.ex.

But it seems not to work like that???

Aaa ok, but how are textures made then?? If you look at the textures in Dietrischs they also repeats with intervals. So what one could say is, that the bigger picture I take of a surface the better it would work as a texture?

Yeeah, I was thinking about that possibility, but I did not have the time to go further with it. Maybe in the next house I will do it, to see wich variant I like. If I remember correct, it is also possible to put your textures?? T.ex. if I go out and take a picture of a concrete element covering 1 m2 or so??

I was thinking about to use concrete aux. in panel settings, but it is not possible to choose #Concrete. So until further notice I just leave the material field empty, and then the elements have a grey surface, that is acceptable as concrete. Real concrete is not so dark and rough as the concrete material. But it is quite good to show that this is concrete.

Hello!

What do you do, if making flat roofs? Are you using ceilings or roofs? When using roofs, you cannot put an angle less than 2 degrees.