Thank you all for responding and happy to provide further information which may help me/you as follows:-
I am of vintage age ( 73 ) been in office & shopfitting for 30years and up todate have engaged the services of Interior designers to
undertake my design work, but have always had the desire to undertake "hands on" aspect of design & documentation myself and
having a background in building construction complements this strategy.
Recently have been successful in the office fitout side, producing quality 3D documentation in corporate fitouts using CA, but this is
primarily due to the fact that a lot of the fitout components lend itself to CA, such as partitions, ceilings, office furniture, seating etc etc.
and in addition to the above, have also produced some good 3D documentation for residential renovations. Hopefully I can resolve
some of the issues below, before I start exploring other CAD products to supplement CA,
On the shopfitting side, there is much more 3D detail to be developed from scratch and hence my plea for help and attached a floor plan
of a shop that I am using as an example and comment with regards to several components as follows:-
I created a tiered magazine gondola display in the centre of the floor as an extrusion, saved it as a symbol which required only one view
which I did in a "cross section", but have yet to mount this on a drawer fixture. I know this can be developed from or CA's standard
cabinet unit so all good there, it can be stretched to any length as well.
I have also created "slatwall" paneling which is wall mounted and basically is a timber panel with aluminium inserts for mounting display
fixtures, again have saved this to my library as a symbol and it can be stretched either end to suit any length.
Where I have come to a brick wall is a section of slatwall paneling required at each end of the above magazine gondola where I need to
edit an object on several faces. Initially I started in a "cross section" view and built the panel as an extrusion, but once saved as a polyline
solid, the ability to edit other faces is not available. Even if you start with the face panel and save it as a "polyline solid", then the end
section can't be edited, ie you only have one face available, is this correct??.
Have attached the Shop plan which shows the tiered magazine gondola and the slatwall panel destined to be at each end of the gondola.
Hoping the above info is sufficient, but let me know if you require any further info,
Regards NeilofOz
Newsagency Plan.plan
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