How do you do your Details?

[nsinha73]

1. Do you construct the model precisely and use "EDIT CUT PROFILE" to carve out Details?
2. Do you just use Drafting Views and Draft the Details from scratch, using detail Components?

[Jun Austria]

1. Do you construct the model precisely and use "EDIT CUT PROFILE" to carve out Details?
2. Do you just use Drafting Views and Draft the Details from scratch, using detail Components?

Its been a combination of the two. Always.

[iankids]

As with Jun, I would do both on pretty much all jobs. I find that the lower the scale, (say 1:10 or 1:5) the more line work, detail components etc, but at the more regular 1:50 or 1:20 a lot more general modelling rather than masking regions. detail components etc.

Cheers,


Ian

[clog boy]

As with Jun, I would do both on pretty much all jobs. I find that the lower the scale, (say 1:10 or 1:5) the more line work, detail components etc, but at the more regular 1:50 or 1:20 a lot more general modelling rather than masking regions. detail components etc.

Cheers,


Ian

I would use detail components, even if to re-use the same sealing rubber or woodlining over and over again. Parametric detail components are much like dynamic blocks if you ask me. You can also use them to 'dress' your section.

[Scott Womack]

1. Do you construct the model precisely and use "EDIT CUT PROFILE" to carve out Details?

We use this method if it is a detail tat is specific to a project, such as how a wall finish material turns around a column, then meets a window or curtainwall. We do place 2D drafting components over the vast majority of each detail.


2. Do you just use Drafting Views and Draft the Details from scratch, using detail Components?

We use this method for head/ jamb/ sill details, roofing details, typical flashing details, wall coping details, equipment mounting details etc., where there is a much higher likely hood of wanting to reuse that detail on another project, with only minor changes.

[ray salmon]

i just use cross sections so far
most of the work has already been done in the model
when changes are made the detail also is updated
the only thing i don't like is putting the "X" un the cut lumber.

r

[clog boy]

i just use cross sections so far
most of the work has already been done in the model
when changes are made the detail also is updated
the only thing i don't like is putting the "X" un the cut lumber.

r

Sections are a good starting point, but there's no way it completely matches up with a real detail. Some folks I know would simply place detail items over it, fill in the blanks and hide the model... though details are usually a starting point for us to work with.