Do you know how to Lock doors in BIMx?

[JaredBanks]

Here's a blog post that explains how.

http://www.shoegnome.com/?p=552

[Karl Ottenstein]

Great tip, Jared!

I was thinking about this problem yesterday in relation to comparing BIMx and iVisit 3D for presenting a single room, or perhaps just a group of interior rooms (as in a tenant improvement) to a client.

If all you have modeled is a room (or a few rooms) and there really is no building, you probably don't want the client walking out the doors and looking at the strange massing you created just to enable them to see the interior spaces.

In Artlantis iVisit, it's easy, since you only see the panoramas you've chosen to render - the interiors - and there is no way to see anything else anyway.

In BIMx, as long as the user doesn't enter Fly mode, your trick is an easy solution to control which doors people can get through.

Cheers,
Karl

[Fabrizio Diodati]

It's a great tip,
Anyway if you zoom in you can go through the wall...

[Anonymous]

There is also the option of using an element such as a slab or mesh to set the accessible 'envelope' of the BIMx file - create it in archicad with the ID 'ZLIMITS' - as per Karl's comment though, if user engages Fly Mode, the camera will go through the envelope.

Just checking the user guide for v15, seems this is not included in there. I've attached excerpt from old zermatt manual. I've just checked and it still works in V15.

[Karl Ottenstein]

kombibob wrote:
There is also the option of using an element such as a slab or mesh to set the accessible 'envelope' of the BIMx file - create it in archicad with the ID 'ZLIMITS' - as per Karl's comment though, if user engages Fly Mode, the camera will go through the envelope.

Just checking the user guide for v15, seems this is not included in there. I've attached excerpt from old zermatt manual. I've just checked and it still works in V15.

Very nice. Yes, too bad that if you engage 'fly' mode you can go right through the slab-box ... but when it works, it is nice:

I like that you can limit movement even within a space - you can walk right up to the invisible ZLIMITS 'wall' and no further, allowing a view into the next room, for example, but not full exploration (in case the room is not fully modeled, e.g.)

The box is a bit strange if you do fly outside of it though: the 'outside' is a solid / opaque textured mass. You can walk around once you're outside, but cannot see into the box. When you are inside the box, the surfaces are fully transparent, so you can look out.

Interesting.

Thanks!
Karl

[Anonymous]

Hi. Not easier to use "zones" in the 3D-window?