Putting together different drawings
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I'm going to have students working in teams to create the different areas of a building and I want them to be able to a) show me their homework on it everyday and b)be able to join their parts together to form a whole building. How can this be done?
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Using components. Please, find a zip archive attached. Inside, there is a model called "Building". It has a first floor, a second floor and a roof. These parts are also added as skp files.
Now the method is this: in the main, "Building" component, you can right click on any of these components and "Save as..." a separate skp file. Then you can elaborate that file, work on it opening separately, just do not change the axes or make it of some other size.
After saving these part-models, you can go back to the master model (Building), right click on the respective part-component and "reload".
In your particular case, the most convenient way would be to start with something as simple (but already built) components as in my example model (mine must be completely out of scale though) so that you can make sure that the parts fit together. And only hand out the individual parts for further tweaking. This way you can give the students some boundaries within which they can work.
If needed, you can colour a few faces indicating that they will be attached to other faces (say two, neighbouring apartments on the same floor) so that they won't put windows there for instance (looking into the neighbour's kitchen)
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As long as all the students' various sections are all related to each other by means of a common reference point (preferably located at the origin) you should be able to import/reload them as Gaius suggests...or even open each individual one to check it over, then select and copy it. Then Paste in Place in the master model file.
That common reference point can be created by starting with a single, coherent base model, as Gaius suggests or, if you really want to test their accuracy, by getting them to model their sections from scratch, located by careful trigonometry.
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