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| Posted by Keet at May 22, 2024, 8:01:48 AM |
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Re: Exact Wall Alignment Issues I want to draw a floor plan from scratch for a house I bought but where no real plan exists. So I want to start with the outer walls and I would like them to start at 0.0, not at -0.20 because the walls are 40 cm thick. Is there by now an option to do that or do I need to live with starting with an offset? Walls have a thickness so no matter how you look at it you will always have an offset. Start what part at 0.0? The outside top corner of the wall? The inside top corner? If you start a side of the wall at 0 then the other side has an offset as the wall thickness. So you always have two numbers. The way walls are calculated with the center you only have to deal with two X,Y values for a wall, not four.What is the importance of starting the first wall at 0.0? There's very little to gain for adding the other walls. I usually try to set 0.0 as the center of the house. Now THAT has some advantages with alignment, mirroring, and rotating if the house is symmetrical. With 0.0 at the center you can draw the top horizontal wall, copy, unselect, paste, and change the negative Y values to the same positive values and you have an exact copy as the bottom wall. That system works for everything in your plan that has a mirrored object on the other side of 0.0. You could select the two walls, copy, unselect, paste, and rotate 90° and you have a square of walls and you only drew a single wall to get there. Of course most houses are not square but it explains why setting 0.0 as the center of the house is more convenient than starting the first wall at 0.0. Just last week questioned were answered concerning the placement of walls: https://www.sweethome3d.com/support/forum/viewthread_thread,13158#62386 and this excellent explanation from Dorin: https://www.sweethome3d.com/support/forum/viewthread_thread,9807#46003 ---------------------------------------- Dodecagon.nl 1300+ 3D models, manuals, and projects |
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