Section Views of Half Log Siding

[Anonymous]

We are using composite fills to represent half-log siding on a stud wall and it looks spectacular in Plan view.

For 3D views, we make the wall a log wall, with flats on the inside - add the log material to the outside and the painted wall to the inside. The exterior views look excellent.

Section views suck.

For those of yuo who have used the log feature and have used the flattened side log, you know that it leaves a niche in the wall at the stack height. This is not good.

I need a better idea of how to represent half log siding that looks good in ALL views.

We WERE using a seperate log wall on the outsuide of an acutal stud wall, but the windows don't cut through BOTH walls so we are stuck putting in dozens of 'empty' windows. This, (short of further adjsutments) causes problems with edits, moves, fine tuning, and of course - window schedules.

So who can give me a better way of representing half log siding in ALL views. A material won't cut it because it will show flat in section and in elevation.

Please post ANY ideas that you may have in hopes of getting this to work better. Thanks.

[David Pacifico]

Another possiblity. Not perfect, but it does do half log siding with extensions.


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[Thomas Holm]

Simply wrong. You can't build a log house like that! Every other wall has to be 1/2 log adjusted in height. If not, the tail chain will simply fall off.

On the other hand, if you model this realistically, it shouldn't be a big problem. No doors will ever start from the bottom of the wall/first log, because that would just cut the whole wall off.

[David Pacifico]

Your right of course.
Second parameter is: Start with a half log

[Thomas Holm]

Fine! But the you should change that picture, if you're selling the software.

[Anonymous]

Why dont you try to use prfile-manager?

[Anonymous]

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"Why dont you try to use prfile-manager?"

Because the profile manager only allows for perfectly straight walls. It only puts a contour on that face. What I need is to jog into the log. What happens is we notch the log so we have 1' tails. Then we saw the log in half from the other end up to the middle of the notch. Once this is complete we cut half of the log off so you end up with something like

TOP VIEW
____________
|____i-----------' <----Cut throught the log
^..........^--------Interior (framed wall not shown)
Full log tail

Intersecting another at 90 degrees using only two walls is what I am attempting to do.

I might have to face the truth that it is not possible to do this with just two intersecting walls.

[Anonymous]

You dont need to use wall by profile-manager consequently.
You can use thie programmed wall just where you need as wall or as beam etc.
For the round wall we must use profiler or sometihing like that.
It is very sad story.

[Anonymous]

I guess my real problem is that I cannot place windows and doors into an object. I have created exactly what I need in GDL but when saved as an object, even though it was made using the Xwall command, You cannot place window or doors in it. Is there a file extension or a way to save a GDL created wall so one could place windows and doors in it? I'm thinking that would have to be done by editing the actual wall tool itself which I have no desire to do. Thanks for any help once again.

[Djordje]

Demetious wrote:
I guess my real problem is that I cannot place windows and doors into an object. I have created exactly what I need in GDL but when saved as an object, even though it was made using the Xwall command, You cannot place window or doors in it. Is there a file extension or a way to save a GDL created wall so one could place windows and doors in it? I'm thinking that would have to be done by editing the actual wall tool itself which I have no desire to do. Thanks for any help once again.

No way.

Except: make the walls the exact size as your doors and windows, so that only doors and windows show, and subtract them from the object using SEO.