Hi Amo,

have a look at the attached file. What I've done is nest components within components within components. It's a bit messy in that you end up with a whole lot of similar components but it seems to work really well. The end result is scale-able and rotate-able.

Note the way the orgin of each nested component moves and the rotation instead of being 90 deg is x 2 to make it 180 deg (effectively facing it the opposite direction)

Hope helps

bi-fold doors.skp

Hi Amo,

I found that you need to change the origin of the 2nd door component so that it rotates around the correct corner.

Hope that makes sense.

Hi Dyppmo,

I do a similar thing for the company I work for, through our area of work is indoor corporate events. I use SU to visualise site lines and give a sense of the space that a 2D plan doesn't do.

I agree with Solo about charging at an hourly rate but I guess you have to work out how much time it's going to take you to do the inital drawings and what that time is worth to you.

Some cash is better than no cash.

Next step is to work out a way of making it add doors automaticlly as the length of the opening changes.

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the reply. It was busting my head trying to work out the cos and tan. I had a brain wave over the weekend though and managed to do it with nested components. This also had the advantage of scaleability. Some weirdness with scale going on when setting up the individual components but a whole lot easier to setup and understand IMHO.

Cheers
Huw

sliding door DC example.skp

Hi Remus,

I'm hoping you can help me as this DC stuff is causing my brain to overload. I want to create a folding wall similar to your sliding door DC but with about 10 sections. I've had a play around with your example about but I just can't get the 3rd (or 4th etc) section of door to fold properly.

Could you please point me in the right direction.

Thanks
Huw

I'm also wondering about this. When printing to .pdf is there a way to print as vector file rather thank dots?

Thanks

Hmmm. I must be just special.

Will have to explore more.

Thanks

Just to clarify. It's the Face Style that changes. The components I modeled were saved with the face style set to "shaded with texture" but when I'm working on a new drawing I'll generally have the face style set to "hidden line" to make thing run smoother.

As I drop in a component the face style switches to shaded with textures.

Hi Peoples,

When I'm doing a drawing as I add components they change the current style settings to whatever the style setting were when the component was made. Very frustrating!

Is there a way to stop this from happening??

Thanks