Non-vertical walls

[cliff collins]

Bill,

Agreed! (thus my Max reference in the thread above).

We use 3dsMax Design 2009 and Revit Architecture 2009
in our daily workflow.

We model almost completely in Revit, export FBX, import into Max for rendering/animation.

The reason we model in Revit is to use the power of BIM for our overall project workflow.

I'm hoping we'll get some more powerful/flexible modelling tools in Revit 2010.

cheers...

[Scott Womack]

Cliff,

I agree that we need some more tools. Personally, a higher priority is to fix some of the tools in the package to work better. Also, Adesk changed the renderer in 09, and not much functionality was fixed, or added. They have already shown they are going to revamp the interface in 2010 (wheter it is needed or not), so personally, I doubt much functionality will be added changed in the next release, especially since the large scale lay-offs Adesk had recently.

[cliff collins]

Its amazing to that there is such resistance and post-justification to such a simple, good idea!

Tilt Wall Tool= GOOD

Workaround/bandaid solution= BAD

cheers...

[Wes Macaulay]

Bill -- what situation are you talking about? Even if I make a roof at 1000:12, it maintains its specified thickness.

There are mathematical problems with shape edited roofs/floors on high slopes, and I imagine the Factory is working on that when they have time...

[dpasa]

Its amazing to that there is such resistance and post-justification to such a simple, good idea!

Tilt Wall Tool= GOOD

Workaround/bandaid solution= BAD

cheers...

I think the meaning is that the Tilt wall tool is not enough...

[SupremeTaco]

Bill -- what situation are you talking about? Even if I make a roof at 1000:12, it maintains its specified thickness.

There are mathematical problems with shape edited roofs/floors on high slopes, and I imagine the Factory is working on that when they have time...

Ah, sorry I was thinking the problem was doing something different... it's not the thickness that is incorrect, it's the way it makes the edges of it stick out really far like this picture... can that be stopped?

Thanks, and sorry for hijacking your thread

[cliff collins]

Yes--the amazing "Saw Tool" which I suggested a few years ago...

We already have a "hammer" for demolishing, right?

So, why not a "Saw Tool" which will slice thru any model component
via a reference plane or face of geometry?

Great for snipping off the bottom of your errant roof, or slicing thru an entire project
to cut it up into chunks.....

Oh no--I feel another Poll coming on.................................

cheers...................

PS--all threads are good--just try to stay on the subject of Orig. Post

[cliff collins]

Back on the original subject:

YES= 59
NO= 8

cheers...............

[cliff collins]

See attached image: (from another BIM platform)

cheers...........

[twiceroadsfool]

Ugh, ArchiCAD.... Have fun with that.

Three replies in a row buddy? Youre really going to keep bumping this up until they build the tool? I see this thread getting 60 pages long....