Earth fill

How do I go about modelling earth fill on a site that is sloping and has sand added to make a level building area? The floor/roof slab command has only one set thickness. I suppose I could do it as a very wide wall. What do you think about it I suggest to use “zero thickness…

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How to use specular color and coefficient?

How to use specular color and coefficient? All materials have a diffuse color and a specular color, which can be different. If so, the color of the material changes depending on the position of the light. The specular coefficient changes the aspect of the material, giving it a more plastic or metallic appearance. With RayShade an…

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Hatchings

How do you create new hatching or change the color of standard hatching ? The easiest way is to draw it on a layer and import the layer into the tile. Diagonal and bitmap hatching can be created inside the Fills window. Bitmap hatching takes on the same color as the element containing it, while…

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Add a texture to the texture list

How to add a texture to the texture list? In your Domus,Cad folder you should have a DOMUS-Cad Texture folder. On Windows the Texture folder is inside the Domus.Cad Data folder, on Macintosh there is an alias on the Domus.Cad folder Any image added to this folder will be accessible via the internal texture menu in…

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Textures

I would like to add texture to a 3D perspective, but when I “paste” a fill to the floor, it is visible only in 2D. In the 3D view you can use photorealistic textures. Go to the Colors parameters, associate a texture to a color, activate the texture check box on the color parameters dialog…

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Sun blinds

How can I draw trapezial sun blinds ?

If your blinds are vertical, you can use the Slab elements. Simply draw a slab with the section of one element of the blinds. After, duplicate the element with the right offset.

Furnitures

I want to design a hexagonal apartment starting from its inhabitants and the furniture, then defining the walls. I’d like to do the geometric transformation afterwards. First choose your furniture from DomusCad Folder ->Object Libraries->3D (or 2D) Libraries->Furniture and place it where you wish inside the hexagon. If you want to transform any furniture elements,…

How to use the scissors

How to use the scissors? Some general principles regarding the Scissors tool: – The Scissor applies only to the current element. For example, if the current active element is Segments, the scissors only cut segments. – You don’t have to select anything. The command is applied to all elements in the current layer and the current…

Transparency artefacts

If I make the white background transparent, part of the white elements of construction also become transparent…and you can see cloudy bits through certain parts of the building.
Can this be avoided?

In this case place a little white rectangle between the background and the rendered image.

Pictures scale and re-size

How to configure the photo to have it in scale when used?

I have a similar problem with a vehicle that I managed to download – can’t get it to scale…so it’s unusable!

You can select it and rescale with the Deformation command from the Process menu.