i MUST CREATE FINISHED ELEVATION OF MY BUILDING IN A 2D LINE DRAWING FORMAT. tHIS IS STANDARD WHEREVER i GO AS THE RENDERINGS WON'T PRINT WELL ON MANY MACHINES AND ARE NOT MADE FOR WORKING DRAWINGS AS TOO MUCH WORK IS REQUIRED WHEN THE CAD FILE IS STANDARD. So....
Because of issues here is what I have to do to create an elevation.
1. Create my Building View (Works fine however items like roof valleys don't show)
2. Save to another file (Called Drawing File which references the Buildling View of My Model)
3. "Save As" to another file (Same name in different folder) With Switches set supplsedly merged lines show up better.. I also merge everything to create a good 2d file |ssues I have are joints like Valleys don't show and there are many ghost lines. This is because Unify does not always work and NEVER works with PCS items.
4. Open the Drawing View
5. Reference the 2d Merged veriion
6. display off the Drawing View
7. Pattern based upon hte 2d Merved file as you cannot pattern an elevation based upon a drawing view
8. Basically redraw alot of the elevation as there are many gaps that are made in the drawing view
9. Now finish patterning
10. Add weights to things like overhangs and where buliding are out in front of other parts of the buildings
11. Add dashed elements like where stairs are and where each floor is
12. Display off the 2d Merged file and Display on the Building View
NOW make a single change to the model and the Building View is updated but everythgin else must now be modified.
1. Open the Building View
2. Move all the stuff drawn on top of the refererenced files (up 100')
3. Resave the file overwriting the Mered 2d file
4. Open the merged 2d file and remove those patterns and lines that were moved in the Drawing file
5. Open the Drawing file and move the annotation and patterns down 100'
6. Make changes
NOW make a change like correcting one slab and.....
WHY NOT ADD PATTERNING TO FORMS IN FORWARD AND REFLECTIVE VIEW.
The problem is stil the same - NO PATTERNED ELEVATIONS
Is using DEM a workaround for some of the issues like "ghosting " that dot't allow you to hatch a wall.
In DEM I still get gaps and I still have to redaw that elevation everytime there is a change.
Since DEM was never complete as far as elevations are Building Views to be a fix or just another way to do something not fully there until something else gets developed?
Ustn since 1988SS4 - i7-3.45Ghz-16 Gb-250/1Tb/1Tb-Win8.1-64bEric D. MilbergerArchitect + Master Planner + BIMSenior Master Planner NASA - Marshall Space Flight CenterThe Milberger Architectural Group, llc
I agree. the greatest benefit and time saver though is the ability to now make changes to the model no matter where you are in your drawings as EVERYTHING is a view of that model. On an elevation make a change. Don;t worry about going back to here, extracting there, checking that extraction, and going back again.
My ititial problem is ghosting of element that are not there but seen with your mouse. These effect functions such as flood slab, and pattern elevation.
Second is the exclusion of some lines. I'm currently playing wiht the resolution to see if that help. Yoda says, "But out of the box this should be."