Cassidi Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 Hi everyone, I am a new user and have successfully created a 3 story commercial/residential building. Now I need to design the exterior... With commercial stucco panels and a mix of stone and lap. I can do the lap and stone, but can't figure out how to make customized panels... I can't even get break wall to work properly. Is there anyway that I can create custom panels in orthographic view? See attached pic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRAWZILLA Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 Try to use material regions for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRAWZILLA Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 I figured, not much of a corner on the photo so it could work for him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiefer Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 3 hours ago, Cassidi said: Hi everyone, I am a new user and have successfully created a 3 story commercial/residential building. Now I need to design the exterior... With commercial stucco panels and a mix of stone and lap. I can do the lap and stone, but can't figure out how to make customized panels... I can't even get break wall to work properly. Is there anyway that I can create custom panels in orthographic view? See attached pic. Try this: joints.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 3 hours ago, solver said: Material regions don't wrap corners well so I might use a solid. They could be blocked once they are drawn on one wall, then copied and placed elsewhere. A trick i do that does work on the corners is to make a new wall type with the added thickness of the panel, and then use material regions for the relief and align at the corners and it will cut. Its very effective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassidi Posted October 5, 2017 Author Share Posted October 5, 2017 Thank you everyone for the advice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRAWZILLA Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 Nice one Johnny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassidi Posted October 17, 2017 Author Share Posted October 17, 2017 Hey everyone. I don't know if this was super dumb of me or not, but this is what I did... I created a polyline solid, and made it the thickness I wanted, then copied and pasted every single one and matched them up. I'm slowly learning, but am still a little confused as to the shortcuts. I'm not really sure what you meant by material regions for the relief Johnny On 2017-10-04 at 7:49 PM, johnny said: A trick i do that does work on the corners is to make a new wall type with the added thickness of the panel, and then use material regions for the relief and align at the corners and it will cut. Its very effective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kbird1 Posted October 17, 2017 Share Posted October 17, 2017 Johnny was suggesting using Materials Regions as the Joints , as a Material Region is capable of cutting into it's Parent Object, giving you the needed inset at each joint. It cuts to the Framing Layer ( Main Layer) so you need to make the Joint thick enough to allow for the plywood, rainscreen and 1/16th of the HardiPanel (eg about 7/8 or 15/16th), so you don't see the Building Wrap/Paper etc in the Joints. You may also need to add a Rain screen layer ( use an extra framing layer) which isn't in any of Chief Wall types too. Here is the Play Plan for the image below.... Hardi+Material Region Joints Plan.plan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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