Beiträge von Thorvald

From wall drawings it is very easy to get sections into the drawing - but from ceiling designs it seems to be only the plans - and I can't use that for my purpose. Is it possible to store section drawings from ceiling designs - or do I have to draw them manually??

I would like ceiling design and roof design to be more like wall design - wall design is so nice and easy to work with. But the way that roof design works is too complicated for element production.

In PlanCad I have a list of up to 6 drawings, and it says "other drawings" if I want to open drawing no. 7 etc. Is it possible to expand that list to cover t.ex. 15 drawings?

Is it possible to rename a drawing?

Der_Planer: Exactly!!

Jim Rogers: Is there a texture called road? Well I will see. What about a bitumen texture?

Ahaaa - NOTEX = no texture.... I thought it was just a name.... :roll:

Zitat von Der_Planner

the grass area cannot be devided into several parts, because there are some edges that prevent the division. So shorten the grass area about 10 cm, then do the hard-soft-cutting, and then lengthen again. Delete the separated inside part.

Ah, yea, yea - stupid me. I tried and tried, without succes, until I remember you say: delete the unwanted part... :roll:

Zitat von Der_planner

It doesn't look like grass: mouse middle click, volume info, change the texture to grass.
For further buildings, change the preferences in building data, they are really "grey".

Ok, I found out now.

Meanwhile I have another question: I wanted to show a road - and it is there, but it doesn't show up in OpenGL. How could that be?

Ok - thanks for your answers - I will see later if I can make it work. I have finished the house for presentation (using ceiling areas for the grass etc.). I am going to make more versions of it so here I could delete just the slanting part and try again in D-cam.

Thank you Der_planner, I will possibly try to use your texture.

Zitat von Jim Rogers

You can make the entire grass area and then do a hard soft cutting to remove the house footprint from the grass areas....

It doesn't work and the grass don't look like grass - what is going wrong??

That is also one way to do it - with many horizontal "plates". I was thinking about that also - maybe later I will do it in that way, if I am asked to make detailed 3D models.

One thing I could ask about: How in Dietrisch to make a model with more than one house? Normally there is only one house in each position.

I can't find where in the program I can put staircases???

But the advantage of using ceiling is, that the ground is cut correctly around the house. If having many different slopes - yes it is a great disadvantage, that the slopes are set to 0 if the building is recalculated.

Ok - I think I found out now - I can make the areas as ceiling areas and afterwards I can rotate it in D-Cam. Or I can define areas in D-cam as well as "constant sections" and rotate them.

But - I cannot see the houses in DiCam - they are only shell models without timbers inside.

.... Oooooh yes I can see the house also in D-Cam, I just have to check slice panels and wall volumes on in "Display Style".

Ok - so far so good. How did you make your grass "boards"? As ceiling calculation or?

On a model of a house I would like to show the ground. That could I easy do with a ceiling with grass texture.

But in this case the ground has a slope. So how to do that? The model of the house is only a model - no timbers inside walls etc.

Maybe I could use roof calculation? But then the "roof" would cut the bottom of my walls in the basement...

Ok - now it is how I wanted it to be. I think a problem was also that my eave heigth was wrong - but now it works!!

Thank's for all your help!

Like these settings (see pictures), but it does not help??

I don't understand what I am supposed to do here:

I don't understand this: ...and set other line definitions (offsets) for roof slice +3 How to do that?

Ooh, I can not open your version of the house, because your software version is newer than mine. But that's ok - I know now what to change. Thank's again. So now I don't need to stop smoking strange tobaco - because that was not the reason..... :lol:

Eeiiiih - I made wrong definition of slices ...2, 1, 0, -1, -2..., that never happened to me before... :oops: #-o And I understand what you mean with walls that are only above cutting slice of roof.

Thank you, very, very much for your excellent help!! :applause:

Oh yes - I can also upload files - good idea - I was not thinking about that... :oops: