Angled walls.

    Good morning! :smiling_face: Hope you had a nice Easter. There is one thing that I am beginning to miss in Dietrich - the possibility to make angled walls. Here Dietrichs is a bit old fashioned, since walls are vertical and that's it - but in modern architecture you can find angled walls, columns etc. Of course Dietrichs is mainly meant to be for wooden buildings - but of course the program can be used for anything. Markus have had the pleasure :wink: to see one of my engineering works of art :wink: where I have combined wood elements, steel frames, steel beams, concrete walls, concrete hollow core slabs, railings with glass, tension rods... in one house. :smiling_face:


    The angled glass facade you see at attached concrete building is made by making the glass facade vertical and then rotate it in D-cam. When it comes to this glass facade it is ok that it is not completely accurate, because another supplier is going to deliver it. But it is a good example.


    Now I am going to make tension rods behind this glass facade for the sake of stability. To make an accurate model of this - because these tension rods will be fastened to the concrete elements - it would have been nice to be able to work with angled walls in ground-plan. But for now I will probably have to do this in the same way as the glass facade.


    So this could be a point for the wish list.

    Sincerely Yours. M. Sc. E. Thorvald, Denmark
    (Dietrichs version 7.03).

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    It is not the reason of being old fashioned or that wooden walls normaly are vertical but it is technical problem. Our walls are not just vertical volumes. They connect to each other and they connect to the roof faces and they connect to ceilings. A wall can have a lot of slices which are built automaticaly.
    There are a lot of automatical reactions which come with the walls. This is the reason why we are not able to allow angled walls very easyly. We have to do some work to allow this but actualy we have a lot of other things to do.

    Viele Grüße,
    Joachim Neumann (Dietrich's AG) :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:
    Software für den Holzbau, Abbund, Holzrahmenbau, Blockbau, Ingenieurholzbau und für die Fertighausindustrie


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    Yeah - I see. Of course Dietrichs is not "old fashioned" in general - it is one of the best 3D software on the market. One way that may be possible, could be to make it possible to rotate wall volumes in D-Cam? And / or maybe to make a type of wall that does not connect to each other (is already possible), and does not connect to roof and ceilings.

    Sincerely Yours. M. Sc. E. Thorvald, Denmark
    (Dietrichs version 7.03).

    Hi Thorvald, just wanted to add to Planer's comment. The truss module would work so nicely for creating the glass wall you show in your attached picture. You could position all the framing as beams and the glass as a panel. You can use the truss module similar to creating a wall except you can shape the outline any way you like and include any angle you like.

    Der_Planer: I does not have version 8, and since feature 1-2-8 i optional it isn't sure that I would get that feature, even if I got version 8. So I cannot know what this feature is.


    Jason: Truss module? As in roof trusses, girder beams etc.? But these can be made in wall design - but it seems that this truss module have more features than wall design?

    Sincerely Yours. M. Sc. E. Thorvald, Denmark
    (Dietrichs version 7.03).

    Because I am not sitting on the money. :smiling_face: If I was, i would upgrade the same day as the new version is released (if I was sitting on a lot of money... :smiling_face: ). And unfortunately we did not make an support and upgrade contract from the beginning. But I will have a look at Dietrichs homepage.

    Sincerely Yours. M. Sc. E. Thorvald, Denmark
    (Dietrichs version 7.03).