topic Re: Cover fill in Modeling

Cover fill

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:38:28 GMT

Cover fill for a ceiling grid - why can't you snap to it to locate light fittings?

Re: Cover fill

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:42:34 GMT

In that case it would be nice, but imagine trying to pick something out of the sea of hotspots that would be created by other fills. It would have to be something you could turn on only when desired.

Re: Cover fill

Laura Yanoviak — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:25:56 GMT

Matthew wrote:
In that case it would be nice, but imagine trying to pick something out of the sea of hotspots that would be created by other fills.

This was a frustration in ACAD.

meapl: Just set the Rotated Grid to the origin of the fill (and the grid snap to the grid spacing (e.g. 2'-0" x 4'-0" for 2x4 ceiling tile).

Re: Cover fill

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:45:25 GMT

You could accomplish the desired snap by setting you user origin to the same location as the cover fill origin. Then use Archicad's snap feature with a 2'x2' grid (or whatever corresponds to your cover fill)

Re: Cover fill

Laura Yanoviak — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:10:21 GMT

Dom wrote:
You could accomplish the desired snap by setting you user origin to the same location as the cover fill origin. Then use Archicad's snap feature with a 2'x2' grid (or whatever corresponds to your cover fill)

True. I guess I'm not used to working on orthogonal buildings...

Re: Cover fill

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:38:43 GMT

Same concept except yours would apply to all situations - so it's the better response. The important thing to note here is that there's often a method to achieve the functionality you might be looking for (ie snap to a ceiling cover fill) but it might require some creativity and using all the of the tools available to you.

Re: Cover fill

__archiben — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:17:48 GMT

Laura wrote:
True. I guess I'm not used to working on orthogonal buildings...

then you are clearly your own worst enemy!

(rotate your grid . . . )

~/archiben

Re: Cover fill

Laura Yanoviak — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:25:46 GMT

~/archiben wrote:
then you are clearly your own worst enemy!

I didn't say I designed the buildings...

~/archiben wrote:
(rotate your grid . . . )

Oh, I rotate my grid quite often!
Does moving the user origin move the origin of the grid snap? I thought you needed to set the [rotated] grid in order to do that?

Re: Cover fill

__archiben — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:30:50 GMT

Laura wrote:
I thought you needed to set the [rotated] grid in order to do that?

you do . . . and i should have read further up the thread and seen that you already recommended it. thought you were in need of an answer . . . my bad!

~/ben