Hello all,
First post! I work a lot with urban planning adding simple, mass produced units to a 3d plan. They can be VERY large areas with hundreds of units, so of course any shortcuts with copying the buildings in are more than welcome.
These plans always come imported from autoCAD so I know the best solution is of course to have the building footprints themselves made as blocks, making them components as soon as they're imported in.
However unfortunately this isn't always the case as it has come from another Architect who I didn't have the chance to tell them to make it as a block and instead they're simply lines. Here's an example below.
So the linework is imported and it was easy enough to make the faces, and there is the unit as a component. There are several plugins that allow copying of components to every cpoint or face etc, in this case I use Chris Fullmers components to faces.
Unfortunately this is more of a tool for copying trees/people or ofc units that are in-line with eachother (grid layout would be fine) But for plans like the ones I work with we have many different angles in the layout and the result doesn't help, having to manually rotate every building.
So are there any ideas? How can I get these units copied in line with the footprints?
Many thanks in advance,
Joey