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Architectural Design Fundamental tools

Rakela Raul
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in my humble opinion, you should focus on tools or enhancements that are fundamentals for architectural design only, and make sure that ac provides you with those, in full....in the arch design i would name walls, roofs, stairs, windows and the like: for this scenario i wd require from gs to give me a stair tool that is fully flexible so i could design freely, including usa hc codes for handrials, also i wd need a roof tool 100% perfect, for example i need an automatic creation of trusses to represent what the truss manufactures really do (please review shop dwgs) and when thats fulfill and only then, i wd go to production for example and i wd think it is fundamental to be able to copy+rotate+etc in elevation, section views, then, when i have all that, i wd tackle details/wishes/frustrations for the sons and daughters of my kids...and again, in my humble opinion.
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aahatimo
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Rakela wrote:
in my humble opinion, you should focus on tools or enhancements that are fundamentals for architectural design only,
rakela,
could this be expanded to include 'and construction documentation' also? if so i agree.
tim hanagan
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Rakela Raul
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thx, i'm with you
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Rakela Raul
Participant
one tool i forgot and it is part of architectural design fundamental, to me at least is 'footings' of course, and this tool seems forgotten
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Anonymous
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Rakela wrote:
one tool i forgot and it is part of architectural design fundamental, to me at least is 'footings' of course, and this tool seems forgotten
Footings are easily accomplished with walls or slabs (depending on one's preferences - I like slabs). I'm not convinced we need a separate tool for this. Is there something you need for footings that is not already available?

I can see a use for a simple add on that could place footings at the bottoms of selected foundation walls, but I'm noot sure it would really save me that much time.
Rakela Raul
Participant
you can also use profiler, and if you want to do it properly, read the handbook "Project FrameWork" for ac8.1....All of the above, including your solution is considered a 'workaround'.....not acceptable to me

footings support the whole structure above, deserve a little more attention and automation....at least, let me input the minimum dimensions required by building codes.

it is normal to get use to workarounds
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Karl Ottenstein
Moderator
Matthew wrote:
I can see a use for a simple add on that could place footings at the bottoms of selected foundation walls, but I'm noot sure it would really save me that much time.
Here's an example from a limited market that is otherwise quite time-consuming: stepped footings on highly sloped lots. All of our projects are on steep, irregular terrain. We model the site mesh from survey data. It would be pretty cool if there was a way to specify the frost-free depth (generally 3'-0" here), stem wall/footing params, and step limits and have the stepped foundation built to follow terrain.

Hmm. Since ArchiTerra already does walls following terrain, maybe this is something Fabrizio would be interested in adding there...

Karl
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Stephen Dolbee
Booster
Karl wrote:
Here's an example from a limited market that is otherwise quite time-consuming: stepped footings on highly sloped lots. All of our projects are on steep, irregular terrain. We model the site mesh from survey data. It would be pretty cool if there was a way to specify the frost-free depth (generally 3'-0" here), stem wall/footing params, and step limits and have the stepped foundation built to follow terrain.

Hmm. Since ArchiTerra already does walls following terrain, maybe this is something Fabrizio would be interested in adding there...
When I lived in FL, this was never a concern. In western NC most of our jobs are on steep, irregular terrain as well. That would be cool, indeed!

Steve
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Rakela Raul
Participant
whoever voted 'average' is saying that the fundamental architectural tools are not first priority in the software....that maybe, interface, rendering engine, icon colors, others; are more important.
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Rakela Raul
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in the improved wish list still dont see anybody wanting a better stair tool,,,,i hope i missd it. 10/26/04
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