topic Re: Zones in Modeling

Zones

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:11:01 GMT

How can i adjust the Zones without using the wall to wall tool? Lets say i just wanted to choose a small area in a room, how can i grab the corners of my zone stamp and add, subtract, or stretch....? Is there a way to turn on hotspots for the zone tool? I cant seem to find it?

Re: Zones

Link — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:06:59 GMT

You can edit a zone the same way you can edit a slab or any of the other polygonal tools. Select it, click on the edge or corner and use the pet palette to reshape it.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Zones

vfrontiers — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:11:24 GMT

Make sure your SET MODEL VIEW options are showing the ZONE FILLS... Note that you can also change the MODE of the zone from LIMITED BY WALLS to POLYGONAL.

Re: Zones

Link — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:22:02 GMT

vfrontiers wrote:
Make sure your SET MODEL VIEW options are showing the ZONE FILLS... Note that you can also change the MODE of the zone from LIMITED BY WALLS to POLYGONAL.

Although this is outdated advice for AC11...

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Zones

vfrontiers — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:30:24 GMT

Link wrote:
vfrontiers wrote:
Make sure your SET MODEL VIEW options are showing the ZONE FILLS... Note that you can also change the MODE of the zone from LIMITED BY WALLS to POLYGONAL.
Although this is outdated advice for AC11...

Cheers,
Link.

I suppose it is time for me to retire.

Re: Zones

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:10:00 GMT

In other files, i've had no problem grabing the edges, but with this new project, for some reason, it wont let me grab the edges of the zone stamp, only the name marker.... I tried turning on zones in the model view, but that didnt change anything...there are no hot spots on the edges to grab....

Re: Zones

TomWaltz — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:31:17 GMT

Thy this:
1) select the Zone stamp
2) zoom extents

Do you see a different room highlighted?

Re: Zones

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:39:15 GMT

What is Zoom Extents? Is that fit to window? because that didnt do anything..the same zone is still selected..

Re: Zones

TomWaltz — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:18:19 GMT

naddlles wrote:
What is Zoom Extents? Is that fit to window? because that didnt do anything..the same zone is still selected..

sorry, I was channeling Autocad for a second. Yes, it's fit to window.

I know the same Zone Stamp is selected... my question was if the Zone was maybe covering a different room than you expect. It's possible the Zone is either covering a really small area that you are not seeing or that the Zone Stamp is far removed from the room it applies to.

Re: Zones

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:29:50 GMT

no, I have an open floor plan, so it pretty much covered most of the floor, and I used the split tool to cut up the zone into different areas... but the problem is still that i have not place to grab the edges of each zone. Their where I want them, but if I wanted to add, or manipulate the zone I cant.

Re: Zones

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:35:38 GMT

Did you check and make sure you are using an 11 zone and it didnt get linked back to a 10 zone maybe?

Re: Zones

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:41:34 GMT

well our latest version is 10, not 11. How would I check that anyway?

Re: Zones

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:51:14 GMT

Hmmm. If you are using 10 then i believe will have to set your Model View Option - Zone Background - Category Color. I think that is what I use to be able to change the zone once I placed it in. Also you can try changing the whole Model View to the predefined Presentation View. One other thing when you created it did you do the Manual or the Inner Edge? If you did the Inner Edge then all you really need to do is to Update the Zone - Design menu - Update Zone - Update all zones. If you did it as a Manual then try changing the Model View Option.