Posts made by pcmoor

Hi
another technique would to select a shape say a circle, make the fill transparent by clicking the button in the shape styles, then increasing the stroke by entering say 20 thus creating a doughnut

Hi Tanner,

I made a simple DC to test out the problem you are experiencing, yes its true the imported DC position formulas are over written. To stop this I wrapped the DC required to import in a DC (wrapper)and passed the required copy values through. This works and protects the contents

I attached the simple DC to illustrate this

Cheers
Philip

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the parent

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the child (contained within a DC wrapper)

"his would be THE real game changer for Layout"

I agree

there is a slight over extension of the lug, sketchup has problems with small bits, in this case extrude the lug back a bit, otherwise for small details scaleup, preform the operation then scale back down

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Here is one solution using DC

A cubic with two DC holes (cut2, includes the rim)

As for scaling, one requires the insert point to be on the outside otherwise to hard to calculate, therefore place the surround with toggle to inner (smaller) size, place and scale to suit opening then use interact finger to toggle to outer.

Cheers
Philip

PS
another method using four cubic components, would be to join them without worrying about hidden lines/ faces. But to incorporate a outer shell/ explosion at some point when happy with the object created. Then one can use "cutlist" or other for material takeoff, as shown in some of my other posts.
one can swap the childless component with its original if one need to amend it at some later point.

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Frame Surround.skp

if the geometry is within same group, could use a DC

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opening (1).skp

can you post an example?

one way is to make the first event trigger the second, once a certain condition is met

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Panel2.skp

Hi
the content of text and labels are not dynamically controllable

You can place dimensions to show or hide

or call the alert message box to show data using the interact hand / finger

as per example attached

cheers
Philip

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block 2.skp

"Soften Edges" is probably the tool you need, access either through window or context right click on selection

Hi

some ideas you may consider.

build a template and "factory" so as produce common styled components

use outer-shell and explode to convert multiple components to one for takeoffs and painting

attached a selection of doors that were produced using a factory method. I have not worried about joints, after picking size, can go to the next level and right click, outer shell, right click explode. You are left with external attributes and one solid, Ideal for MDF doors.
The doors should be individually saved to your components library before, then if you need to edit the shell later then swap with same or similar

Added sample file and the process to make doors

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door templates.skp

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scale able version of notched post / rail attached.

amended ends so that is only a half lap if there is no extension

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post & rail.skp

hi
there are two components on the attached drawing, save both to a component folder.

to make a dynamic notched member one needs to connect a number of sub_groups, then use the outer-shell command and explode to make it one after the dynamic changes. The result can be reinstated to be dynamic later if required by swapping it with its original.

the component contains a group(s) that holds the sub_groups. a group at a level (named shell, shell_me) as the point to right click "outer-shell", right click explode

The first one is just a series of cubic that can be clicked into to outer-shell to form a solid lattice.
the second one requires the copy function to be off initially, after changing the attributes go through the rail to its shell point, then outer-shell, explode. then go into the post and do same. now can go pack to front dialog and change copy this to true. this method is to save having to do every rail/post.

You can then swap back to the original if you require any changes.

the component contains only groups so that you don't get residue references as with components
plus it will up date to the outer attributes

hope this helps
Philip

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post & rail.skp

Hi

With my DCs I create a dynamic name that changes with the selected attributes, for example... "820 Bi-fold Door", this can change to any other size depending on the selection. It would be great to have access to different attributes like "name", description" etc.

I have built AutoCAD blocks which have labels which I can vary depending on selection and VBA control, it is extremely advantageous to link data to visible labels

cheers
Philip

If you grouped the house and car instead of making them a component, you will find that the formula works only on the first site after copying and all the car visibility changes.
However if you physically alter some of geometry of one site/house/car then that group will work independently. I would move or swap the car as a further point of randomness to achieve this difference

So copies of DC components will become unique after the change. It was decided by the developers of the DCs. This is inline with the definition of a component.
Does it matter?, only one needs to purge the drawing after any deletes or explosions.

Another idea....you could make the site a group of groups then wrap that into a component ,which you then could explode all after the changes leaving the site groups? Then purge the drawing.

Philip

Hi
could you up load the model and we can check it

i have a rollar door on warehouse you can use and improve, drum rotates, sections hid @ given height.

models under "pcmoor"

philip

Hi David

you probably sorted the concept out by now

however if not...

Each group or component has its own origin axis, usually left bottom side. If you right click on the axis you can change its position, but at this point, probably best to leave it.
if you double click to open a group/component within a group/component you will likely notice a shape defined axis and a dull smaller axis. This gives an idea of the relationship between the two objects.

The formulas and process is similar to a spreadsheet application, you can click the cells in to build the relationships rafter than typing

I find it convenient to build an object with known size and positions then figure first the lengths and then the positions

Philip

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fixed glass

Hi David

you need to build a relationship between position and size as well
example attached

philip

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frame.skp

so chess is 32 bit, that is 16 bits each side, so is Go game 64?,