Detailing

[Anonymous]

Following the Step by Step Tutorial book and in reference to detailing: In the book, once the scale factor is changed on the floor plan to create a blow up of a door jamb, more detail shows in the wall/door. This didn't work for me. I have no more detail showing. Do I need to change a setting?

Also, when drawing a detail, (using the line command say) I need to issue the 'rebuild' command after every line drawn or deleted to update the screen to see what's happening. Is this correct, or another setting?

Thanks,

Jason

[Link]

If your door is set to 'Scale Sensitive' (check this in the Door Settings....Parameters>Options>2D Detail Level) then it will auto adjust according to the floor plan scale. If you change between 1/8" scale and 1/4" scale, you will see the door's appearance change in the floor plan, from 'simple' to 'detailed'. The actual cusp is 1:95/1:96, and since 1/8" = 1:96 and 1/4" = 1:48, you see the change between these two scales.

The detail tool is like taking a static 'snapshot'. To rebuild it, right click on the detail in the Navigator and select 'Rebuild from Source View'.

Good luck!

Cheers,
Link.

[Djordje]

jkipfer wrote:
Following the Step by Step Tutorial book and in reference to detailing: In the book, once the scale factor is changed on the floor plan to create a blow up of a door jamb, more detail shows in the wall/door. This didn't work for me. I have no more detail showing. Do I need to change a setting?

This depends on how the door is scripted, meaning ho much detail is put in the script, and which scales trigger the change.

jkipfer wrote:
Also, when drawing a detail, (using the line command say) I need to issue the 'rebuild' command after every line drawn or deleted to update the screen to see what's happening. Is this correct, or another setting?

What is your platform and OS? Seems to me (judging also by the previous question) that your video system might be not 100% suitable for ArchiCAD.

[Anonymous]

I rechecked my settings as per Link's post and I have the correct settings, but I'm not seeing the trim like in the tutorial. I tried several scales and I did note the door itself went from single line to double line. Maybe there was a mistake in the tutorail? There did seem to be a few.

As for the rebuild everytime I draw a line problem: I have XP Home, a Dell Inspiron 8200 (notebook), 20GB free Hard Disk (single drive), 512 MB Ram (my cache is set to 4 times that), a P4 Processor, but only 32MB Nvidia GeForce 2 Go graphics card. Is the graphics card my problem? I have all the latest patches and updates for xp and video driver.

Thanks,

Jason

[Djordje]

jkipfer wrote:
I rechecked my settings as per Link's post and I have the correct settings, but I'm not seeing the trim like in the tutorial.

It might be that the door used in the tutorial and the door in the library are not the same ...

jkipfer wrote:
only 32MB Nvidia GeForce 2 Go graphics card. Is the graphics card my problem? I have all the latest patches and updates for xp and video driver.

32 is the absolute minimum; try to increase it if possible.

Besides, what happened to your 8.1? Why still 8?

[tsturm]

Hey Link

the issue with the changing scale display for the SCALE SENSITIVE, goes back to the U_ and T_ variables. Where the U_ sends back a 48 and T_ is 96.

I found this out by using the Print T_ , U_ in a GDL script. To me, this is not a vary scale sensitive object. There is no trigger to get the really detailed version which is part of the door object.

I would have hoped that GS would have used the A_ and some < and > to control the display of the door's settings.

In the past I have seen some library parts where some one scripted an object to be detailed when within ten feet, less detailed from eleven to thirty and then very basic from that point on. This way in an animation, the parts change and get more or less detailed as the camera gets closer or further from the object. A sure fire way to speed up animation generation. This same thought process could be used to show information on the plans. One frame type for each of three scales, 1/4 or greater, from 1/4 to 1/16 and then from 1/16 to 1/100.

sure this would mean creating three different versions for each library part, but it would help out the rendering process and readibility of drawings without changing library parts out.

HTH