Board and batten siding.

[Tom Krowka]

Anybody have a recommendation for creating actual vertical board and batten siding, other than a picture of it to use with a material. I thought something like this might be in wall accessories, but no go. Found one on Objects Online, but for version 9. Perhaps something more current?

[Dwight]

You can essentially make one module of the polygonal wall/batten, add them together to make up the length you need and use the polygon grow method to unify the wall - this saves drafting. Once you have a really long wall, place it like it was an object and split off the excess.

[Anonymous]

Make it like shown in the pictures!
For longer walls use Dwight's advice!
For the windows do as Laura says!

Polygonal wall cannot be made Composite! There are two choices:
1. Make two walls, put the window into one of them and an empty opening into the other. If you change the window you will have to change the opening too.
2. Make a single wall and graw the layers with fills and lines.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for elaborating the process Kliment, Laura & Dwight. Very much appreciated. The image helped a lot

The good thing with this technique is that you can readily change your empty openings to match the size and location of the real window. Using SEOs.....I have to remember to switch the layer on so that I could make the change.

Good to know that there are several ways to achieve board & batten using AC alone.... and severals ways to achieve it using add-ons/plug-ins...

[vfrontiers]

The only thing I might add is that if you create a FILL that has the REVERSE board and batten, you can SUBTRACT (as kliment is doing with the lines) as many little sections as required for long walls.

So...
1. Create Reverse Board and Batten as fill (essentially like an SEO operater).
2. Place one at the start point of the b&b
3. Drag as many copies of this as needed to fill your wall surface
4. Using the new FILL CONSOLIDATION, you can merge them all together into ONE fill.
5. Use this to subtract from your polywall.

[James Murray]

This is just an object, and it seems almost quaint compared to some of these solutions, but if it helps anyone then good: http://www.onland.info/archives/2008/05/battens_jm11.php

[Karl Ottenstein]

James wrote:
This is just an object, and it seems almost quaint compared to some of these solutions, but if it helps anyone then good: http://www.onland.info/archives/2008/05/battens_jm11.php

Nice, James. Thanks for posting!

Karl

[Anonymous]

Hello,
I like Kliment's method for making board and batten siding.
Because they are walls, openings are not a problem,
they clean up with each other and ordinary walls and,
they appear correctly in plan.
The problem is all that drafting so it occurred to me to write
a library part that did all the drafting.

All this lib part does is draw straight lines for the board exposure
and the batten for straight walls and draws corresponding arcs and lines
for curved walls. To use this part, set the parameters, place an instance
in the plan, and with the line tool, polyline tool, and circle tool complete
a polygon with the lib part forming one edge. Explode the lib part into
grouped lines and arcs and use the magic wand with the polywall tool
active to create a polywall with battens on it's surface.
Peter Devlin