I didn't mean to disparage textures and renders, just looking for something else. It's certainly a matter of taste and fitness to the task at hand. These shots are of a home renovation, the production docs of which I am trying to produce with SU/F. Problematic to be sure, and perhaps a mistake, but I am well on my way just the same.
The furniture works OK for me as the stair down that back way will be rarely used.
Thanks much for your input.
This thread is intended to be concerned with the underlying design and its modeling, unobscured by post-production and graphisizing, if you will. I find precious little of that kind of thing around here and so am left a bit curious and hungry as I love architecture, which for me is really the bones more than the frosting. I prefer not much frosting on my bones, you see. I know there are worlds of fine work going on out there and am sad none of it gets posted here. So please post some if you have it and want to share, regardless of flavor; bits and pieces are good, partial or unfinished, as they make up the whole; with or without explanation. Personally, I don't have much to offer, but am happy like most to be making some progress.
When using the tape (measure) tool, ordinary SU snaps and inferences are active and helpful and they can be forced with the arrow or shift keys. These seem to be very limited in dimensioning.
If the tape can measure it, SU should be willing to dimension it, for free.
Thanks, Jean.
Since it took me two tries to get it, I post this pic.
Red is broken assoc dim; success in black is edited as shown.
They often have the same effect on me. Perhaps you got some help which helped. If not, witness, if you like, another's peeves:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=27431
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=27274
I think the scene and style managers are due some serious surgery.
Thanks.
I may well be confusing another text thing with this, perhaps regarding the automatic text input for groups or components.
I read but have unable to find a tip about adding info to an associative dimension which doesn't interfere with the associativity.
It doesn't seem to be to enclose them with either '(info)' or '[info]'.
I do but I'm less adept than the more efficient, all shortcut users. I think it helps keep one's memory fresh to have the icons hanging around for a good while, esp. as the set grows and grows with plugs you want to learn to use.
For me moving to a two monitor setup was much more relevant to the issue of freeing real estate and being productive.
When circles are placed on a face through explosions of other entities (they themselves are not exploded), sometimes they intersect properly with the face on which they are coincident, often not. SU behaves oddly with regard to them. If I try to explicitly intersect the entities so as to be able to delete an unwanted face of the circle, the operation fails to intersect but doesn't return an error msg. If I redraw the circle nearby and move to the same problem location, it usually results in the circle face being distinct as I want it, but if I copy/move it does not (the face is whole across the circle edges)!!!
I apologize for not explaining the images in detail but I thought it likely that experienced users are well familiar with this phenomenon. I'll get back if that is not the case.
Thanks, I'll try to remember these tips.
@tig said:
Making the profiles [and rails], each with the same number of segments gives best results in EEbyRails - to weld complex sets of arcs/edges into one curve first select all and explode back to plain edges - they stay selected then use 'weld' to join them...
Nice look to the water, esp. reflections visible at top and distortions/refractions of the block wall through the water body, and also very magical forces applied which produce the narrowing of the flow.
@massimo said:
@unknownuser said:
...but soap timeouts (Timelimit finished!)
You can download a new version that works until 10. October 2010.
Thank you. I needed a translation!
You work cheap, and fast, and well, Gai...
Thanks for being here.
Trying to do it myself produces nil.
Weld to make a continuous curve is inconsistent but works on parts, either quarter, half, or whole without the crossing ribs, but soap timeouts (Timelimit finished!)!
No, I made a mistake. Undoing it all revealed I did scale my change, in spite of thinking I had surely, surely, surely learned that one.
Beg pardon.
@unknownuser said:
That should usually work. Unless you scaled the post-component itself instead of the geometry within the post-component...
Yes, thanks, I have fallen for that one often enough, and so was careful this time to bust in and move edges rather than scale.
I'm trying to get up to speed with efficient component nesting.... at a very basic level:
Several handrail component assemblies (e.g., corner termination, corner pass through, end, etc.) have within them components (e.g., vertical post, horizontal cables, bracket, etc.). So the vertical post, for instance, is contained in all three examples. I decided the post needed to be shorter, so I proceed to edit the component within one of the assemblies but the edited version did not pass to the other assemblies, only other instances of that exact component. When I select all instances they are all correctly selected but they are now actually different (as edited) even though the have the same component name!!!
Tips appreciated on how to accomplish what I am trying to do: update components nested in mother components globally.
Guide says this is as it should be (?):
@unknownuser said:
You can edit the component as a whole or edit individual entities within a component. Editing or modifying the component instance as a whole affects only the component instance, not the component definition or other instances.
Phantastico!
I will show to my 9 year old son, Phineas, who shares a similar vision.
Thank you, TIG. Having battled so well SU's limitations in this area, your work-arounds are no doubt old-hat and reflexive to you. I'm still trying to squeeze that turnip, though, and don't want to do as much as you suggest, even if it is the only and/or best way. Drawing extra, otherwise unneeded lines (guides) to place text is just not right, as stupid AND true as that judgment may be.
