How do you construct a roof slab, at say a 25 degree pitch, that is supported/buts up to a curved wall? (Sort of like a garret wall except in the opposite plane). I have thought of ways to do this, such as construct a rectangular slab and then cut it using the scissors tool and remove…
DetailsI have created a single pitched roof for a rectangular 3-level building, but cannot find the right method for connecting the walls to the roof. To make the walls match exactly the bottom part of the roof you must select all the walls and the roof and execute the command Adjust Walls on Roof from the…
DetailsThe vaulted roof method turns the slab into an object – How can you edit it, in terms of creating a garret wall to close off a gable end, and then insert a door or window into that garret wall.? The easiest way to do this is to use the same polygon you used to generate…
DetailsHow do I create a Garret wall that is void below the lower roof and solid above the roof line?
Select the wall and the roof and execute the command Adjust Walls on Roof from the Process menu.
I want my wall to be 100 cm wide at the base, narrowing to 80 cm at the top. It is 150 cm high. How can I draw this lopsided wall? Draw one 80 cm wall and one 20 cm wall. Change the height of one side of the 20 cm wall to 0 (you…
Is it possible not to have walls fuse together? If so, how do you do that? I am thinking of this in terms of making timber beams and rafters with the wall command, but such a way that they don’t fuse but remain as separate elements. Set the Attach Maximum Distance at zero in the Wall…
Are there different types of wall construction, e.g. cavity walls, stud walls etc? You can change the materials of the wall faces, but not the internal structure. To draw very complex walls, it is faster to use Domus.Cad tools. An example of cavity walls follows below. Here is a room with the external part of…
How to make doors transparent.
To make the doors and windows completely transparent chose View -> General view Parameters and click on Transparent door/window opening.
If you want windows and doors to be partially transparent, you must define a partially transparent material and apply this material to the elements.
How can I insert an arched portico into the facade of my building? And how do I do a barrel-vaulted ceiling? For the portico, the simplest way is to insert arched ‘Doors’ into the facade. Here’s how to do the barrel-vault: – draw an Arch, the section of the barrel-vault – select the Arch – choose…
Can you please suggest a way of drawing such that you can have a door and then a window above it in a wall ?. When I try, it won’t allow the insertion of an upper window once a door ( or window ) has been inserted in that wall. Why is it that sometimes I…
