Tutorials related to houses

pbacot

Is there or will someone make a tutorial on producing a second story.

xilix brought up one problem that is helped by groups. Still once you've done grouping etc. you end up with lines on the outside of the house at floor level etc. I can work out ways to fix this. Who knows the BEST way to approach these steps with minimal fixing-up afterward, so that one can have clean surfaces to work with inside and out, well intersecting ceilings and walls etc.

I noted that trying to add a ceiling by drawing a rectangle over the exterior wall lines would not work. drawing inside the exterior walls did. Things like that, not clear to a beginner are helpful to demonstrate.

Does anyone have a method of resizing a window ... Edit: Doh! Now I know how to do it. With Sticky technology. Just select the edges on one side of the object (no groups) and move perpendicularly...

Thanks,

I'll keep an eye on the Tutorials.

remus

I dont think it matters too much, as you easily turn the bold lines off (view->edge style->profiles.)

pbacot

Ok, so build the two story shell before you do the interior walls and floors--Instead of building platform style. Does it matter in grouping these different parts that you have the bold line intersections at (interior views) floor and ceiling (or to the molding when you get that far)?

I suppose it never shows in rendering, but if you like a SU view, it would detract?

Thanks for the links. I checked out Kris's tutorials. Very good. He seemed to stop before the second story. So I was laying floor slab on top of the walls and then dealing with lines appearing on exterior walls, disappearing ceilings, interior wall lines crawling up with extruded walls etc.

Attached is a simple massing "study" I've done for a two story addition to a humble abode. The owner wants more height in rooms and an attic space. See the building grow as you flip thru the pdf pages. I hope he decides not to go too high! In this case I did just do the outside shell in fact it is only one surface. Just thought the unintended page-flip animation was interesting.

Fisher.pdf

pbacot

OH, I thought that was only the overall object profile! Thanks.
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