Beiträge von Rob Cullen

Hi Jason

Yes, that was what I had in mind. However if you use the notch command and position the beam you use to create the notch just 1mm away from the bottom face of the beam which is receiving the notch then I am sure the machine is not going to leave a 1mm sliver.

OK it wont show up in OpenGL, but at least it would get the job done.

I tried using the notch command and increasing the depth in the command by 1mm, but it doesn't work.

Looks like we have another one for the wish list. Have a great weekend.

Rob

Hi Jason

Are you doing these for processing on a machine. If not why don't you just do them as booleans?

Just a thought.....

Rob

Hi Joe

Sorry :oops: :oops: :oops: the texture was metal round and it would only not appear when the hidden option was selected in Open GL.

As you would expect I guess.

Thanks

Rob

I have just noticed that any items with an object item number which is an auxillary item, do not appear in Open GL.

Is this right? Or is it just me!!!??? :?

Cheers

Rob

Hi Jason

If by a #4 process you mean the Notch command then you can do it but it is, like Planer's solution, a bit long winded.

Set the beam creating the notch to 5mm inside the back face of the beam you want the notch in. Create the notch in the usual way, picking an edge on the end of the beam creating the notch.

After the process is created, just edit it and increase its depth to equal the width of the beam. The square hole will then pass all the way through the beam.

Hope this helps

Rob

Hi Jens

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I realised I could do it this way, I just thought it would be useful to be able to define the destination layer within the DLM parameters.

It would just save a job later on.

Cheers

Rob

Thanks Joachim

You are a star.

Cheers

Rob

Hi Everyone

Does anyone know if there will be way to define which layer elements from a DLM are placed in. It would be good if you could send them all to say Layer 15.

Cheers

Rob

Hi everyone

Has anybody noticed a problem out putting to pdf from PlanCAD if you have dotted lines in your drawing.

I have tried with both FreePDF and PDFCreator and neither will convert drawings that have dotted lines.

I don't know if this is pdf problem or a Dietrich's problem - any thoughts?

Cheers

Rob

Jason,

Ahhhhh, the new TFW. I can't wait for that, but I guess it will be a while yet.

Cheers

Rob

Hi Jens

Thanks for that. However, I still think a better measurement would be to the top of the whole roof buildup. Why can this not be included??

Cheers

Rob

Hi Joachim

Ahhhh. In that case it's a translation problem because Option 3 suggests that the measurment is for ALL of the roof build up - at least it does to me!!!

Anyway, I think this is a strange choice. Could it be taken to the TOP of the roof build up - this would be much more useful.

Any chance of this being changed in V6.00 please??

Cheers

Rob

Hi Joachim

If you look at the attached image you will see that the measurement of 4.000 aligns to the top of the slice above slice 0.

However, I set the 4.000 measurement in the profile settings (see image in previous post) to be the top of the roof buildup.

I think something is wrong.

Thanks

Rob

Hi Everyone

I have noticed that when you set a roof profile to have its height measured to the top of the roof buildup, it actually measures it to the top of the slice directly above the rafters and not to the top of the whole roof build up.

I wonder if this will be corrected in V 5.04 or will it wait till v 6.00?

Cheers

Rob

Hi Dev

Welcome to the forum. It's always good to have new English speakers.

I hope you enjoy using Dietrich's and learn a lot from the forum.

Cheers

Rob

Hi Jason

As far as I am aware, within the TFW lintels relate solely to openings and not walls - so if the opening moves, so does the lintel (and cills and cripples, etc)

Within Ground Plan, command 3 - 02 allows walls to change heights and there is a check box asking if the openings are to move (i.e. to remain static relative to the wall edge).

I guess you could set all your walls to the same height, define your openings 38mm down from the edge of the wall, assign a given opening type to your openings (as defined in the TFW) and then adjust the heights of the walls as you wish, rembering to check the box which asks if you want the openings moved.

Hope this helps and apologies if I haven't grasped what it is you want exactly.

Cheers

Rob

Hi Everyone

Problems with PlanCAD today!!

Just tried to import a stored hidded line sketch from Dicam.

I wanted to select a line/2 point to position the image in the view port and this error message popped up.

It only seems to be when you select the line/2 point.

Cheers

Rob

V5.04

Hi Planer

I have just tried your solution but every time I try to edit the list the program crashes (5.04) - Access Violation.

Is this a bug you know about?

Any help out there please.

Cheers

Rob

Hi Planer

Yeah, I figured that would be the workaround - it would be nice to have a bit more control though - within the settings.

Thanks very much

Rob

Hi everyone

I have imported a large roof drawing from DiCAM and requested a timber list. Everything comes in fine, but the list has one very long column and one very short one. Is there any way to rearrange the list into two equally sized lists. I think this would look better and be easier to read.

Does anyone have any thoughts??

Cheers

Rob