Arch. Modelling from 2D: Optimizing Tools

iam_doss

Hope that helps some people. See this video (Flash - 7'30")

http://www.dossoftware.com/userdata/documentos/formacion/sketchup/0-Demo%20Arch%20para%20forums/TutVideo.html

Basic steps in this sample:

Walls

Select layer
Grouping
- "repair_broken_lines.rb" THANKS Carlo Roosen
- "makefaces.rb" THANKS Todd Burch
PushPulling
Rectangles. Cut & Paste in place into the group
- "pushpull_tool.rb" THANKS Didier Bur
- "deletecoplanaredges.rb" (2 or 3 times) THANKS Jack Dolabany & Carlos António dos Santos Falé
Orient faces

Floor

Copy from group & Paste in place
Close floor
Grouping & erase
Pushpulling
Move blue

Roof

Rectangle
Pushpulling
Rectangle & move blue (ridge)
Grouping
Copy from group & Paste in place into the group
Pushpulling
Intersecting
Erasing upper walls
Cleaning (some oops...)
-...and so on (next is for you)...

mike mead

Terrific!
Millón de gracias

kwistenbiebel

And now if someone would make a user interface for this with all the needed rubies, we have the 'architectural plugin' we talked about. (maybe with some extra stuff included?)

It would take one of the ruby heroes to make a GUI for it....

kwick7

Wow. Will definitely have to try this tonight - this could save me a lot of time!

swedishnitro

I noticed that the cursor has the axes following it, how do I switch this on?

Gaieus

On Windows OS it is window (menu) > Preferences > Drawing > Miscalleanous > Display crosshair. (funny, under "miscalleanous" one would expect more than one item...)

Mac should have something similar in this case I guess...

dazza

@kwistenbiebel said:

And now if someone would make a user interface for this with all the needed rubies, we have the 'architectural plugin' we talked about. (maybe with some extra stuff included?)

It would take one of the ruby heroes to make a GUI for it....

Yes Please, that would be awesome!!!