Medeek Floor
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Version 0.9.7 - 09.23.2024
- Updated the SUBTRACT feature with three other options.
- Added seven advanced options in the Floor tab of the Global Settings.
- Added metal bridging to the Draw and Edit menus.
- Added solid blocking (Lumber and I-Joist) to the Draw and Edit menus.
- Fixed minor bugs in the HTML menus and preset system.
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Tutorial 3 - Metal Bridging and Blocking (10:28 min.)
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Version 0.9.8 - 09.27.2024
- Made the polyline/face icon (draw mode) in the draw menu clickable.
- Added a joist direction toggle button/icon to the draw and edit menus.
- Added a stagger joist option to the Draw and Edit menus.
- Updated the insulation, blocking, metal bridging and hanger modules to accommodate staggered joists.
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So yes, staggered joist present a few issues. For example if the blocking doesn't land in the lapped region of the joist layout you end up with this:
Right at the moment I'm not sure how to address this or actually determine when the blocking lands in the non-lapped sections of the layout. The easy way out would be to do a boolean subtraction using the joists themselves, but then I would need to separate the resulting (multi-body) group into a bunch of groups/solids, this one is a bit of headache.
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With staggered joists I am tracking how many rows of joists I need, the joist length and lapped length, so given that information (three variables) I can then run a quick check on each blocking row to see how it pencils out. This little block of code does the trick:
if @Spanno < 2 stoffset = 'NEG' else lapcount = 1 for lapi in @Stjarray if (distx > lapi[0]) && (distx < lapi[1]) stoffset = 'LAP' break elsif distx < lapi[0] if lapcount.odd? stoffset = 'NEG' else stoffset = 'POS' end break elsif (distx > lapi[1]) && (lapcount == (@Spanno - 1)) if lapcount.odd? stoffset = 'POS' else stoffset = 'NEG' end break end lapcount = lapcount + 1 end end
As one can see there are really only three possibilities for the blocking: Lapped, Positive or Negative.
The end result is this:
Problem solved. Now I just need to apply this same logic to the metal bracing and implement it. Insulation is somewhat different so I still don’t have a good solution for that one just yet. -
After another three hours of some productive thought and hacking away at some rather large blocks of code (and a few choice words) I managed to pull together a fairly efficient and robust algorithm for the cavity insulation between those irregular joists.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you “Batt Insulation with Staggered Joists”:
I’m exhausted, tomorrow I might take a small break.
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what if i want them staggered the other way? LOL J.K. nicely done!
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First look at skewed hangers with staggered joists:
A little bit more complicated than regular joists due to the offsets but overall its pretty much the same routine. Pretty excited that I actually can get this to work, at first I wasn't really sure if it was even feasible.
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Version 0.9.9 - 10.01.2024
- Further updated the insulation, blocking, metal bridging and hanger modules to accommodate staggered joists.
- Added skewed hanger options into the Floor tab of the Global Settings.
- Added skewed hangers to the Draw and Edit menus.
- Added the following skewed (45 degree) Simpson hangers into the built-in library: SUL24, SUL26, SUL210, SUL214, SUL1819, SUL18111, SUL18114, SUL2069, SUL20611, SUL20614, SUR24, SUR26, SUR210, SUR214, SUR1819, SUR18111, SUR18114, SUR2069, SUR20611, SUR20614
- Updated and added a new subtraction mode to the SUBTRACT feature: SUBTRACT_JOIST
- Added Subtractive Geometry (Joist) in the General tab of the Global Settings.
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Version 0.9.9b - 10.01.2024
- Updated the Floor tab of the Global Settings with additional parameters for joist construction.
- Fixed a minor bug with the hanger module for double ply staggered studs.
- Fixed a bug in the Draw and Edit menus so that all hangers in the library are properly displayed.
- Added the following skewed (45 degree) Simpson hangers into the built-in library (skew_hangers): SUL410, SUL414, SUL214_2, SUL210_2, SUL26_2, SUR410, SUR414, SUR214_2, SUR210_2, SUR26_2
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Version 0.9.9c - 10.03.2024
- Enabled diagonal deck boards with the addition of a Board rotation parameter.
- Enabled 2-Ply rim joists with our without an air gap.
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Version 0.9.9d - 10.03.2024
- Fixed critical bugs with saving of floor presets.
- Improved robustness of floor attribute library and data lookup methods.
Some incremental improvements but necessary.
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Note that the last few updates prior to this update introduced a number of new features that effectively disabled the saving of floor presets. Please download this latest update to restore the ability to save floor presets. -
Double rim joists with air gap, lapped and extended:
A quick test of the non-orthogonal floor types shows that the algorithm holds up as it should:
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Version 0.9.9e - 10.04.2024
- Updated 2-Ply rim joists with air gap to extend joists that are in a lapped configuration.
- Updated the Floor tab of the Global Settings with even more parameters for joist construction.
- Added the following face mount Simpson hangers into the built-in library: MIU1819, MIU18111, MIU18114, MIU18116, MIU18118.
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Tutorial #4: Deck Boards (6:42 min.)
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Tutorial 5 - Rim Joists and Sill Plates (5:47 min.)
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Tutorial 6 - Skewed Joist Hangers (5:03 min.)
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Tutorial 7 - Subtractive Geometry (10:57 min.)
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Tutorial 8 - Staggered Joists (5:06 min.)
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One additional parameter for removing specific rim boards:
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