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Some background....
I have a restoration/extension idea for my small home here in the UK. Having been retired for a few years now my only possibility to get the plans approved and build what they will show is to both draw and build it nearly entirely by myself - good fun!!
Anyway, having been familiar with MS Excel in the "rat race" I decided to scale my survey measurements (1:50 & 1:100) for the required Planning Service / Building Control drawings and draw the required 2D lines, one line at a time, in an MS Excel chartsheet - I knew that I could then get them printed correctly to paper A2/A3 as is still required here by the relevant authorities (although Planning are going soft copy online imminently).
The property site has quite a slope and the 1958 build is a bit tricky too - being cavity wall the external DPC is OK (generally level throughout and around the required 150mm above external ground highpoint. The internal DPC (of the inner leaf of the external wall) is at around level to the external ground highpoint. The rooms are a mix of suspended wooden floors and concrete (around 50mm thick) laid directly on soil. The internal interface walls between the suspended and concrete floor rooms contain two DPC's - one at the level of the external leaf of the external wall and one at the level of the inner leaf of the external wall
Yawn
the point is that my, hopefully, clever tanking slurry solution idea to make the proposed works conform to the relevant standards must be well depicted for Building Control.
After having produced reasonable external planning elevations in Excel it became apparent (a bit too late) just how horrendously complicated the task of producing a series of vertical sections within Excel would be.
In search for assistance I recently came across an excellent article (called "Small house design workflow with Open Source software (work in progress)" (by moniker bitacovir). Assuming that same moniker at this forum I was led to the post in this topic I (hope) this is now a reply to.
So, with a little initial experimentation, I am just starting to form an inkling that (with a lot more investigation) I just might be able to use Sweet Home 3D to extract the required series of vertical sections.
My question, for now, is to see if there could be an easy "nice to have" as follows:
In the attached thumbnail (parallel projection vertical section) the "side view" image of the vertical section displays the outside half of the walls in dark grey and the inside half in light grey - is there any way that I can make each half whatever colour I wish (e.g. black)?
PS
Many thanks to Puybaret for developing such an amazing piece of software and to the other contributors for adding significantly to it
