Beiträge von Rob Cullen

Hi Everyone

For some reason I can no longer put two cuts on the same end of a beam in D-CAM. Don't ask me why or how - it just started happening.

Very weird. I can do it in single beam info but not using the cut commands.

When I put the second cut on the beam the first one is removed (in sigle bean also)

Has this happened to anyone else (5.04)

How can I correct it????

Cheers

Rob

Thanks Jens

Thank you Master of P10+ - I am sorry cannot help me - maybe someone else will.

Cheers

Rob

Hi

Does anyone have any experience of using the Stromab CT600 with Dietrichs.

I have some problems and hope someone can help.

Cheers

Rob

PS I have also posted this in the English section

Hi

Does anyone have any experience of using the Stromab CT600 with Dietrichs.

I have some problems and hope someone can help.

Cheers

Rob

PS I will also post this in the German section

Hi Thorvald

All main I beem manufacturers have their I beams already defined in the masterial database - Agepan, Finn Forrest, TJI, etc

Cheers

Rob

Hi Thorvald

You will find all the I beams you need already defined in the material database, and it is very easy to add boards or panels of any size and thickness and you can assign what ever name you wish.

These can then be added to your walls in wall design.

HTH

Rob

Hi Thorvald

In Groundplan, you can cut a wall back to a line (3-4) and then add a new wall next to the wall you have just cut

So in one length, you can have two or more walls if you wish.

Ideally this should be done before you put the timbers in, but you can reassign them using the Building MOS if you wish.

One useful feature of the Building MOS whic you may not know about is the preview option - see picture attached.

If the preview button is depressed, then when any item in the list is highlighted, all the elements that are in then MOS are turned green so you can see exactly what is in each MOS.

I don't know if this helpful to you.

Cheers

Hi Florian

I am using 5.04 and in order to rotate an existing building have had to mirror it twice. Once along a 45 degree axis and then again along a 90 degree axis.

Because of this the bottom left hand corner of the building, (which was at 0,0,0) is now at 0,5.486,0.

Of course I can move the building along the Y axis by 5.486m, but it would be much quicker to just move the global UCS to a new point.

Markus tells me that in version 6 we will be able to rotate buildings as well as mirror them. Will we also have the option to either keep or remove the building we want to mirror or copy?

Cheers

Rob

Can anyone tell me how you shift the global UCS (0,0,0) to a new point.

Cheers

Rob

Hi Thorvald

You said that you had no timbers in the walls, so the HRB editor is not important at this point.

If you right click on a wall in the Ground Plan module a menu pops up and the top item is Properties.

If you adjust the thickness of the core slice (or any slice for that matter) it will change the overall thickness of the wall by increasing the thickness of the slice (or slices) you have amended.

You are asked what line you want to keep and the the adjustment is made accordingly. So you can make the adjustment from the centre of the wall, the outside face, the inside face or the reference axis.

If you use menu item 3-01 in Ground Plan you can change the properties of many walls at the same time, as long as the all have the same properties to start off with.

HTH

Rob

Zitat

it would also be useful, when you save a new picture, the program creates automaticly a new number for the picture

Hi Doug

Absolutely....I don't know why this stoage is not handled in the same way as any other storage, with the next sequential number being used and all previoulsy used ones being shown in the dialogue box.

Rob

Hi Thorvald

The picture is always saved, as you say as a png, and is always located in the particular project directory you are working in.

I agree it would be useful to be able to chose what format the picture is. It would also be useful to see what images have already been saved when you create a new one.

I hope this will be part of a future update............Joachim.........???

Cheers

Rob

Hi Thorvald

Really within the PROJEKT directory you should have a sub directory for each of your projects, otherwise this will get very confusing for you when you have many different projects. You can create new directories either within Windows or within the Dietrich's main menu.

Cheers

Rob

Hi Thorvald

I know what you mean, but I actually thinki it is an advantage not being able to open files directly from Windows as it avoids many potential problems.

Anyway, to your question. After you finish every session in Dietrich's you should always close the project and return to the main memu screen.

Within each project, there are a number of positions - as we discussed in one of your previous posts. If you highlight one of these positions and right click, a sub memu pops up and one of the options on this is to Pack . This will compress the position and enable you to copy it on to a CD etc and put it on another machine. Here you can use Windows and these packed up files have a .zgb file extension.

If you place the packed up file in the correct directory on the secondary computer you can unpack the position in the same way as you packed it - via the main menu. When you are finished on the second machine, simply repeat the whole process and unpack the revised position on your main machine.

Exacty the same process works for entire projects. This will pack up all the positions and, if you select the option to do so, all the drawings, lists, databases as well and these files have a .zd file extension.

I hope this clears it up a bit for you.

Cheers

Rob

Hi Thorvald

First question:

Wall properties relate to the wall volume and the slices that make it up - not to the timber components within it. So if, for example, you have a wall with a Slice 0 (the core slice) with a thickness of 150mm. You can easily update this property to have a Slice 0 with a thickness of 200mm, but this will not change any timber components within that slice. That would have to be done by applying a different HRB definition to the wall - this can get a bit tricky. Does that help? I'm not sure I have fully understood your question.

Second question:

The way to do this is to create all your variations in one project and have all the differennt variations as different positions within that project. So, for example save your first variation as position 001. Then create a new position (002) and when creating it base it on position 001 by hitting the Copy button and then selection position 001 as the reference. See the attached screenshot.

That way you get an exact copy of postion 001 and can change only the bits you need for your next variant.

HTH

Cheers

Rob

Hi Jason

That's interesting, I've never checked that box before. The amount you see (on a test I just ran) is actually exactly 500mm from the top of the wall selected.

I can only guess that this is some sort of internal preset. I am sure Joachim will tell us.

Rob

Hi Chiddicks

Thanks for that really comprehensive reply. Should be very useful for everyone who looks on here.

As it happens, I have already ordered a machine. The laptop I currently use is getting increasingly flakey, so I had no time to lose as I can't afford to be without a machine.

Interestingly the spec I have been advised to go with is not a million miles from you are suggesting:-

Intel Pentium D 3.4 GHz

2 x 1GB DDR2 ECC

160 GB SATA II

ATI Fire GLV3100 128 PCIe

The only thing missing is the RAID drive, but with the laptop in reserve and a regularly backed up external hard drive I hope I will be OK without this. I guess it could always be added later.

Thanks again for you help.

Cheers

Rob

Hi everyone

I am about to spend a lot of my hard earned money on a new computer and would like to find out what people think about:-

AMD v. Intel
P4 v. Xeon
Dual core v. Single core

ATI v. nVidea

....and any other useful bits of advice/experiences

I know the usual answer is to spend as much as you can afford, but I hope I can get at least a bit of feedback on the above questions.

Thanks very much

Rob

Thanks Mammut

There is also a way of doing it using Tools/Drilling/Perp to side (3-04-5) which is what I had used before and have forgotten, but I guess if you visualise the axis of the beam then this is the best way.

Thanks again and greetings from England (possibly hotter than Italy at the moment!!!)

Rob

I don't know why, but I have a complete mental block on how to put a drilling in the end of a beam (at its axis infact).

Would somebody be kind enough to post a screen shot of the settings because it's giving me a headache. :? :? :?

Cheers

Rob : :roll: : : :roll: :