tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14852341055526042882024-02-27T01:07:09.973-08:00William Le Couteur's Autocad BlogAutocad blogWilliam Le Couteurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598156261928306734noreply@blogger.comBlogger127125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485234105552604288.post-38116704655155674602024-01-20T01:15:00.000-08:002024-01-23T23:48:10.791-08:00Autolisp Routines for labelling piping PIDs<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I am now working at a product process consultancy and one of the tasks is to </span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">look at a PID, and work out where the pipes on the diagram go.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Sometimes, there are no line numbers, so to make things easier on me, I decided to give all the pipes line numbers. Normally these look like HW-50-001, ie they give an idea of what is in the pipe, it's size and lastly a number.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In line with my dubious philosophy of keeping life simple, I made a copy of the PID and set about numbering all the pipes with just a simple number , ie 1,2 and so on.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">My cunning plan was to have an Excel spreadsheet with a From/To list, which would have product and size on there instead.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I also set up the 3d drawing of the pipes with a set of layers labelled 1, 2 and so on.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">To save my sanity, I developed several lisp routines to help automate this process as the plant was quite large.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This first one sets up layer numbers in the 3D drawing. It asks you for the first number and the last number. Then it creates all the layers, and makes the colour of the layer to be the colour number. Yes, you are correct....this limits this idea to 250 layers.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I could modify the routine to allow for this at some stage. I did notice that some colours are pretty dark, so this is a drawback that might have to be addressed.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">(defun c:laysnum()</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> (setq startno (getint "/n Start no: "))</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> (setq finishno (getint "/n Finish no: "))</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> (setq thenolayers (- finishno startno))</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> (while (< startno finishno)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> (progn</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> (setq thelayers (itoa startno))</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> (command "-layer" "m" thelayers "c" thelayers "" "")</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> (setq startno (+ startno 1))</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> ) ; end progn</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> ) ; end while</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> (princ)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">)</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The second is for use on the PID and asks the user to select a line, then key in a number, eg 4, and then asks for a text position. The routine changes the layer of the line to 4 and puts the text of "4" above the line.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">All while assuming zero height text of course;)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div>(defun c:CLAT ()</div><div>(setq theent (car (entsel "\nSelect a line: ")))</div><div>(setq layerNumbers (getstring "\nEnter a number (X): "))</div><div>(setq textPosition (getpoint "\nSpecify text position: "))</div><div>(setq edata(entget theent))</div><div>(setq edata (subst (cons 8 layerNumbers) (assoc 8 ed) edata ))</div><div>(entmod edata)</div><div>(command "text" textPosition "" "" layernumbers)</div><div> (princ)</div><div>);end defun</div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The next one does the same, just that it does not ask for a text position-this is for when you have the numbers already on the drawing.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><div>(defun c:zzCLAT ()</div><div>(setq theent (car (entsel "\nSelect a line: ")))</div><div>(setq layerNumbers (getstring "\nEnter a number (X): "))</div><div>(setq edata(entget theent))</div><div>(setq edata (subst (cons 8 layerNumbers) (assoc 8 ed) edata ))</div><div>(entmod edata)</div><div>(princ)</div><div>);end defun</div><div><br /></div><div>This one just puts in numbers only, sequentially.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>(defun C:zzn( / z b x y )</div><div>(setvar "CMDECHO" 0)</div><div>(command "osnap" "none")</div><div>(setq oldsnap (getvar "osmode"))</div><div> (if (equal numberf nil)</div><div> (setq numberf 1)</div><div> )</div><div>(setq numbers (rtos numberf))</div><div>(while (not(equal numbers "299"))</div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(progn</div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(setq x (getpoint "\n Pick Number Position "))</div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(command "Text" x "" "" numbers)</div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> (setq numberf(atof numbers))</div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> (setq numberf (+ numberf 1))</div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> (setq numbers (rtos numberf))</div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>);end progn</div><div>);end while</div><div>(setvar "osmode" oldsnap)</div><div>(setvar "CMDECHO" 1)</div><div> (princ)</div><div>)</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Notice that there is a variable in there called numberf. If you have used the routine once, it will persist and will pick up again where you left off. To start again at a specified number use:</div><div><br /></div><div><div>(defun c:zzNUM()</div><div>(setq numberf (getreal "/nEnter your start number "))</div><div>(princ)</div><div> )</div></div><div><br /></div><div>If all this is confusing, try blecouteur14 the at thing at jeeeeemail, asking me to do a short video.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>William Le Couteurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598156261928306734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485234105552604288.post-31179938193420223272023-06-12T03:18:00.000-07:002023-06-12T03:18:16.231-07:00Drawing a Roof Structure Using Autocad Solids<p><span style="font-family: arial;">Yes, completely mad. I have drawn a rammed earth house roof from whoa to go in 11 x 15 minute videos. I did not design this building.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">These were rendered in Autodesk Showcase, as I had problems bringing it into Twinmotion.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Well, no difficulty, but my way of doing materials did not quite fit with Twinmotion.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">It came into Twinmotion quite nicely, just my materials were not playing nicely.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Not the fault of Twinmotion, which is a very good program. I have used it with Revit on several jobs and it works well.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA5KE4GKgDlmNWWtcLFJyo-thKHFfDtyHnljelrf0SUIoJQ_-GexuRSOMxnCStQY4ZjVjtX_piZdSEcSRSC5HIhsK2t8iDTQAiFWmiL2uXMuZWBaT7fIFL_LFmS13jY33KJL4I01V4v2X8eg5pVCbRNHb9f4TXhd391NCTmw55FwthhFxCzAIg9s_LFg/s1920/rb3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1015" data-original-width="1920" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA5KE4GKgDlmNWWtcLFJyo-thKHFfDtyHnljelrf0SUIoJQ_-GexuRSOMxnCStQY4ZjVjtX_piZdSEcSRSC5HIhsK2t8iDTQAiFWmiL2uXMuZWBaT7fIFL_LFmS13jY33KJL4I01V4v2X8eg5pVCbRNHb9f4TXhd391NCTmw55FwthhFxCzAIg9s_LFg/s320/rb3.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0QSZtBgP82YmbIO5mKtLP1IRFpwfNF0d0-fc9YMiysq53W5qpkDFF1b8gwS07s247-s_puOAV-CoxbaHL7Nx3yedpXVnc3SJOASgffITMdUFcvMtu7FX-YyhYsAT2iWLzhUOSv6DxFdtBTEKZfyPksSTlNTM4AJKTzwaCKUemYfZQHFbooUIWb2F0Rg/s1920/rb2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1015" data-original-width="1920" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0QSZtBgP82YmbIO5mKtLP1IRFpwfNF0d0-fc9YMiysq53W5qpkDFF1b8gwS07s247-s_puOAV-CoxbaHL7Nx3yedpXVnc3SJOASgffITMdUFcvMtu7FX-YyhYsAT2iWLzhUOSv6DxFdtBTEKZfyPksSTlNTM4AJKTzwaCKUemYfZQHFbooUIWb2F0Rg/s320/rb2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6SED4C4hq7KIFogDwIch7Ex8qiDrw6GBXawVM3onGb5U_Ldoy-LSFIsGG9j9umtBFdAqhuWVNS2qN_B08N9mgFSsYCT2Oo69ywKv3hbSNaKjylJUFhBQvcKnzIGBn1VvPg1jNtbTqShjJhpe8CRTn3MBsBeO-qigIuqK4dVl8gQQgirHi_e8vJSn5Pg/s1920/rb1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1015" data-original-width="1920" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6SED4C4hq7KIFogDwIch7Ex8qiDrw6GBXawVM3onGb5U_Ldoy-LSFIsGG9j9umtBFdAqhuWVNS2qN_B08N9mgFSsYCT2Oo69ywKv3hbSNaKjylJUFhBQvcKnzIGBn1VvPg1jNtbTqShjJhpe8CRTn3MBsBeO-qigIuqK4dVl8gQQgirHi_e8vJSn5Pg/s320/rb1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">You can see video 1 of 11 at:</span></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vEf8vWkF9U" style="font-family: arial;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vEf8vWkF9U</a></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I have gone on about this idea in previous posts. The nice thing about using Autocad this way is that you have complete control over what is modelled. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This job had timber windows and it just so happened that I had made a lisp routine to draw a window in 3D solids some time ago. This was a bit of a time saver, but even so I still took 2 and 1/2 hours for the videos and around another 2.5 hours for off camera stuff, so around 5 hours all up.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I have an idea that if I had a timber window family organised,it would have taken less time in Revit. Designing one that had wall thickness as a parameter might have been tricky.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Possibly a private hell I should put myself through?</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p>William Le Couteurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598156261928306734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485234105552604288.post-68163978528661868602023-04-11T20:09:00.002-07:002023-04-11T20:09:39.921-07:00Using ChatGPT as an Autocad help<p> Interested in such things, I logged on when I had a problem recently.</p><p>I had a 3D model and in wireframe mode all the solids showed up. Switching to Conceptual mode and one of them disappeared.</p><p>I checked all the usual things, still no good.</p><p>So I asked ChatGPT. I got a very good answer, but unfortunately none of it's suggestions worked.</p><p>I was impressed though.</p><p>My solution involved hiding a 2d block that I had in the drawing, and all was good!</p><p>Apparently you can ask it to write scripts, macros and autolisp, so that might be fun to try out.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>William Le Couteurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598156261928306734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485234105552604288.post-83786590375105665952021-12-18T12:10:00.002-08:002023-07-23T19:45:24.087-07:00The Angry Draftsman and a Door Plan View Never Seen Before on the Internet!<p> Maybe it is because I have just spent 77 hours on a framing job (3 different houses, one set of drawings) that ended up with about 62 panels drawn.</p><p>One thing as an architectural draftsman I would do when drawing interior doors would be to just slam them in the corner of a room, with no precision about 100mm away from the framing, not bothering to show the door frame details at all. Which works out ok as the precut man will put things in to make it work in reality.</p><p>The problem was: now I was that man! The drawings I received, were done by someone, who like me, lived in a little drafting la la land.....so we have cupboard doors that are much narrower. Doors that will not fit in the available corridor space......so how to get a bed into the bedroom?</p><p>Which is fine, who cares? Except when you need to put a hot water cylinder in.....or get a bed in a bedroom...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLtSj1Zogm9toLjo8X4uW8qTKwXv6CO8J0O-qMs_v5uFwbRv3D5CZGROUXyOd27s2fVSbEJQ6MrzGEp0_ebLWnihWNoPD_gRTZzsCM_L9kC6ifeoKFeffFXLGg0HXTmPcpVQUxg5LebSUouz9m6ZbG7nvta5j3yv6JZSNlT8n5M4t_FdLgm4tokX8zNg=s890" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="890" data-original-width="299" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLtSj1Zogm9toLjo8X4uW8qTKwXv6CO8J0O-qMs_v5uFwbRv3D5CZGROUXyOd27s2fVSbEJQ6MrzGEp0_ebLWnihWNoPD_gRTZzsCM_L9kC6ifeoKFeffFXLGg0HXTmPcpVQUxg5LebSUouz9m6ZbG7nvta5j3yv6JZSNlT8n5M4t_FdLgm4tokX8zNg=w216-h640" width="216" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjq748PTw8kNBBIPQZvDQUHcWA3nN_q12Q6TNMWc9uuYSmFqU7oSMwQuZl1-ZI71KZLz3eon1Nm7UmTmAQJvo3Hx3vNNJnVgxT_tY53dGRIAx2VkIBi01fTiK6EmMBs7si46eWUamr2zVWOUDt_98v936QFQ5yhP4-5KfILLaocl9dd-89l6KR18teueQ=s1403" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="789" data-original-width="1403" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjq748PTw8kNBBIPQZvDQUHcWA3nN_q12Q6TNMWc9uuYSmFqU7oSMwQuZl1-ZI71KZLz3eon1Nm7UmTmAQJvo3Hx3vNNJnVgxT_tY53dGRIAx2VkIBi01fTiK6EmMBs7si46eWUamr2zVWOUDt_98v936QFQ5yhP4-5KfILLaocl9dd-89l6KR18teueQ=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>The thing which I never really took on board is that to have a door, you need a lintel. This needs 2 studs, one to go from top to bottom, and one to support the lintel, that is if this wall needs to butt into another one. So the soonest the gap can start is 45 + 45 away from the other wall, ie 90mm. Then you have the door frame to consider and a gap at the other end.</p><p>>>>>>July 2024 note: see below, the 90mm can be 45mm<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<</p><p>Easy, I thought, just go on the net and look up door manufacturers. The number of different door frame options out there is eye watering. No nice plan views as shown here though. Hence the anger.</p><p>If you can see anything obvious wrong, please comment.</p><p>In my early architectural drawings I always made all doors the same size, 760mm. After about 5 drawings the architect noticed this and informed me that bathrooms and toilets were supposed to be 710mm. </p><p>NEW NOTES MADE 24 JULY 2023.</p><p>I have had occasion today to make a lisp routine to insert doors and revisited the dimensions given above.</p><p>I found a firm called J & G Doors Ltd, at <a href="https://jgdoors.co.nz/technical-info/">https://jgdoors.co.nz/technical-info/</a></p><p>and their figuring is at odds with mine. Seeing as that is their business to make doors, I have to </p><p>bow to their superior wisdom. So the above sketches should appear as revised below:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXb1Ra_97x3p6FhJdvR9AQdRZiu3FV-z6u4nTL73uTkrvTKEP61khgAatJuPy3b2OYqcxzmH5lEZuWb7Im5QFj98cvgLIJzEKR2h7iByvJyU_Tv0Ymt0mC-sG3bQYdYLrj3Ks4P3A3DRLMuSMmiiZ1gIrP825FQDqAfNXogChUXZTCy8rB3_LJT9ma8fLy/s1432/Plan%20View%20Standard%20Interior%20Door%2010mm%20Gap%20J%20&%20G%20Doors.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="836" data-original-width="1432" height="369" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXb1Ra_97x3p6FhJdvR9AQdRZiu3FV-z6u4nTL73uTkrvTKEP61khgAatJuPy3b2OYqcxzmH5lEZuWb7Im5QFj98cvgLIJzEKR2h7iByvJyU_Tv0Ymt0mC-sG3bQYdYLrj3Ks4P3A3DRLMuSMmiiZ1gIrP825FQDqAfNXogChUXZTCy8rB3_LJT9ma8fLy/w632-h369/Plan%20View%20Standard%20Interior%20Door%2010mm%20Gap%20J%20&%20G%20Doors.PNG" width="632" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy4WejzNrtY6egPOkaQABwvDnR3OmmpsCjZYAo6fKlDdElP6D-RnMAoyc40AQTQeNEOgLEg1o3tdw4X6KxuLEzbxrD35R9lYmtQjllsnwz5GGUkS3i2xlrJbrZowNNkAHBfchCuEd117NaqIA07J4Q1VhKWK9q8eT7KPH2_3WtMcz57RvTfHmhWb4I0MC9/s827/Section%20Height%20View%20Standard%20Interior%20Door%2010mm%20Gap%20option%20J%20&%20G%20Doors.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="827" data-original-width="389" height="590" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy4WejzNrtY6egPOkaQABwvDnR3OmmpsCjZYAo6fKlDdElP6D-RnMAoyc40AQTQeNEOgLEg1o3tdw4X6KxuLEzbxrD35R9lYmtQjllsnwz5GGUkS3i2xlrJbrZowNNkAHBfchCuEd117NaqIA07J4Q1VhKWK9q8eT7KPH2_3WtMcz57RvTfHmhWb4I0MC9/w278-h590/Section%20Height%20View%20Standard%20Interior%20Door%2010mm%20Gap%20option%20J%20&%20G%20Doors.PNG" width="278" /></a></div><br /><p>Just to add to the confusion, the apartment where I live has dimensions where 70 shown above</p><p>turns out to be 85-90mm, so the jury is still out! It seems common practice to just have 1 x 90x45</p><p>against the adjacent wall, so the idea of 2 45x90's promoted above is probably suspect as well!</p><p>From here on I am working on 45mm only not 90mm.</p><p>My comment when asked to do some pre-cut drawings was: "How hard could it be?"</p><p>Turns out, hard work. Little things like where do you put the first stud? No books to guide me I settled eventually on 610mm, on the grounds that you need to allow for the gib on the adjoining wall. Fingers crossed this is ok!</p><p>Regarding angry draftsmen, I have noticed that Architects and Architectural Draftsmen are quite often grumpy people. Maybe it is dealing with clients and council that brings this on. Or is it that drawing houses is rife with things that are plainly a silly way to do things, for instance, every one has a different set of drawn details. Still, maybe it keeps us all in a job?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>William Le Couteurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598156261928306734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485234105552604288.post-24714118378107513712021-09-04T23:20:00.000-07:002021-09-04T23:20:13.935-07:00Down Autocad memory Lane<p><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: arial;">Around 1991, I remember spending $2400 on an AT, IBM clone, it had a 80286 processor and probably 1k of ram....My daughter and and I used to play Captain Comic on it.</span></p><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: arial;">It had a 14" Colour monitor, not flat screen but cathode ray tube.</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: arial;">About 1993, </span><span style="font-family: arial;">I decided to go contract drafting and bought a copy of Autocad 12 for NZ$6500. I got a man to upgrade it to an 80386, still with </span><span style="font-family: arial;">not much ram. </span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">I could draw things ok, but a bunch of 2D pipes in a factory, and it would give up.</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: arial;">One of my first jobs was for an engineering consultancy specializing in rendering.</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">No, not as in producing pretty pictures, but dealing with slaughtered animal wastes.</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Everything was all 2D, as the computers then did not have the power to do 3D.</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Release 14 which came out in 1997 had some handy 3D capability, just as computers became more powerful, and I became more convinced and proficient with 3D.</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">What followed was a succession of contracts here and there, which were all good learning experiences, until I ended up at a large factory where I more or less stayed until I retired.</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">With a few breaks to work on other things.</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Autocad 2007 I remember as the really ground breaking release, for the extra 3D pieces which it had in it.</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>William Le Couteurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598156261928306734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485234105552604288.post-51226173081947081262020-09-10T02:58:00.000-07:002020-09-10T03:06:53.402-07:00Housing Crisis? <span style="font-family: "arial";">Housing seems to cost a lot. At least it does in New Zealand, where I live.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I thought it might be fun to design a cheap way of building, using commonly available products.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">This represents the minimum size possible. Hey, it keeps the rain out!</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeKWr1cp2350pU4YvgDeQh0VaP1hLqlgOSevUsFi3fF3KdUnbvBFpq72lvNMht1W2m2Y4iO_Jjby2dgwjwqWLxeBjwDpzSmJsnF9ZGkvBX1vntBSHyBvU4FmkkqTTYyzbe-L41GtzmMcnx/s1078/Baby3.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="752" data-original-width="1078" height="349" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeKWr1cp2350pU4YvgDeQh0VaP1hLqlgOSevUsFi3fF3KdUnbvBFpq72lvNMht1W2m2Y4iO_Jjby2dgwjwqWLxeBjwDpzSmJsnF9ZGkvBX1vntBSHyBvU4FmkkqTTYyzbe-L41GtzmMcnx/w500-h349/Baby3.PNG" width="500" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">You can check out the video I made, link is below:</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa3qyEqtHrg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa3qyEqtHrg</a></div>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial";">This system just needs some young person with access to a shed, along with some basic tools. More sophisticated manufacturing systems could be added if you were successful. </span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial";"> This one is 3.6m x 7.2m long, and includes a bathroom/laundry. The materials cost is around NZ$15,000, so even if the labour costs were another $15,000, it would still be a cheap house.
The hardest part would be the dealing with all the rule makers....in NZ you cannot build a building unless you are a Licensed Building Professional.
The other hard part is this is not architecturally designed-yes it does look like a shack. But it would do the job.
Speed of build would be very quick, as the walls just lock together.
Nothing in here is patented, and better designs for locking mechanisms could be done.
The prices are straight from retail outfits in New Zealand, so further reductions in prices would be certain.
In NZ today, and average 3 bedroom house(no land) would be around
$300,0000. They are obviously a lot bigger!
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial";">The strange part is the land would be the biggest cost. </span></span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial";">In the following costings, I do not include electrical,plumbing or the special fixing system.</span></span><br />
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 589px;">
<colgroup><col style="mso-width-alt: 12617; mso-width-source: userset; width: 259pt;" width="345"></col>
<col style="mso-width-alt: 3254; mso-width-source: userset; width: 67pt;" width="89"></col>
<col style="mso-width-alt: 1243; mso-width-source: userset; width: 26pt;" width="34"></col>
<col style="mso-width-alt: 4425; mso-width-source: userset; width: 91pt;" width="121"></col>
</colgroup><tbody>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 259pt;" width="345">Item</td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 67pt;" width="89">Price each</td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 26pt;" width="34">Qty</td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 91pt;" width="121">Extd</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Module1 1200x2400 Exterior</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$304.45</td>
<td align="right">7</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$2,131.15</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Module1 1110x2400 Exterior</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$302.66</td>
<td align="right">4</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$1,210.64</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Module3 1200x2400 Interior</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$115.45</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$115.45</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Module5
1200x2400 Interior with door</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$276.46</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$276.46</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Module6 998x2400 Interior</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$111.42</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$111.42</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Module7 1200x2400 Exterior with
1175hx1010w window</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$1,458.85</td>
<td align="right">2</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$2,917.70</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Module8 1200x2400 Exterior with front
door</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$420.45</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$420.45</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Module9 1110x2400 Exterior with
1175hx400w window</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$847.85</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$847.85</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Particle Board 20x1200x3600 </td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$165.00</td>
<td align="right">6</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$990.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Gib for Ceiling 13 x 1200 x 2400</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$31.56</td>
<td align="right">9</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$284.04</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Truss</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$62.13</td>
<td align="right">9</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$559.13</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Purlins</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$276.40</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$276.40</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Ceiling Battens</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$259.12</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$259.12</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Fascia</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$339.23</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$339.23</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Guttering</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$195.46</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$195.46</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Barge Flashing</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$493.00</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$493.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Soffit</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$222.00</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$222.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Ceiling Batts 3.6x7.2=26, 3 packs at
8.4sqm</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$76.50</td>
<td align="right">3</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$229.50</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Sub Floor Timber</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$1,345.33</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$1,345.33</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Downpipe</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$29.00</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$29.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Roofing Iron</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$70.00</td>
<td align="right">11</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$770.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Toilet Mondella </td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$289.00</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$289.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Handbasin Roccoco</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$109.00</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$109.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Shower-lining</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$270.00</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$270.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Shower-door</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$305.00</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$305.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Shower-base</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$200.00</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$200.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Shower-support for lining</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$200.00</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$200.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Shower-tap</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$100.00</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$100.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Shower-plumbing waste</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$159.00</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$159.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Laundry Tub with tap</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$400.00</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$400.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Mirror</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$100.00</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$100.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Kitchen-Kaboodle-Bunnings</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$1,753.00</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$1,753.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Stove/Oven</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$779.00</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$779.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Kitchen sink</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$100.00</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66">$100.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
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<td height="28" style="height: 21.0pt;"></td>
<td></td>
<td class="xl67">Total</td>
<td align="right" class="xl68">$15,196.33</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
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This overall costing uses the modules costed below:<br />
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<col style="mso-width-alt: 2962; mso-width-source: userset; width: 61pt;" width="81"></col>
<col span="4" style="width: 48pt;" width="64"></col>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl69" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 218pt;" width="290">Item</td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: none; width: 61pt;" width="81">Price-each</td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: none; width: 48pt;" width="64">Price/m</td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: none; width: 48pt;" width="64">Length</td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: none; width: 48pt;" width="64">Qty</td>
<td class="xl69" style="border-left: none; width: 48pt;" width="64">Extd</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Module1 1200x2400 Exterior</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Shadowclad 12x1200x2440</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$162.00</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$162.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Gib 10x1200x2400</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$24.00</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$24.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Top 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">1.2</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$6.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Bottom 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">1.2</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$6.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Stud 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">2.32</td>
<td align="right">3</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$34.80</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Nog 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">0.5325</td>
<td align="right">4</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$10.65</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Nails</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$10.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Batts R3.6, 3 sq m at $17/ sq m</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$51.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Clips</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Paint</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Total</td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl68">$304.45</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Module2 1110x2400 Exterior</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Shadowclad 12x1200x2440</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$162.00</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$162.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Gib 10x1200x2400</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$24.00</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$24.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Top 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">1.11</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.55</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Bottom 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">1.11</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.55</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Stud 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">2.32</td>
<td align="right">3</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$34.80</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Nog 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">0.5325</td>
<td align="right">2</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.33</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Nog 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">0.4435</td>
<td align="right">2</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$4.44</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Nails</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$10.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Batts R3.6, 3 sq m at $17/ sq m</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$51.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Clips</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Paint</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Total</td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl68">$302.66</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Module3 1200x2400 Interior</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Gib 10x1200x2400</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$24.00</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right">2</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$48.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Top 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">1.2</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$6.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Bottom 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">1.2</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$6.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Stud 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">2.32</td>
<td align="right">3</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$34.80</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Nog 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">0.5325</td>
<td align="right">4</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$10.65</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Nails</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$10.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Clips</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Paint</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Total</td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl68">$115.45</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Module5 1200x2400 Interior with door</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Gib 10x1200x2400</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$24.00</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right">2</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$48.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Top 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">1.2</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$6.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Bottom 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">0.445</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$2.23</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Bottom 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">0.09</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$0.45</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Stud 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">2.32</td>
<td align="right">3</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$34.80</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Nog 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">0.5325</td>
<td align="right">3</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$7.99</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Door</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$100.00</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$100.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Door Handle</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$50.00</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$50.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Nails</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$10.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Batts R3.6, 1 sq m at $17/ sq m</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$17.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Clips</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Paint</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Total</td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl68">$276.46</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Module6 998x2400 Interior</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Gib 10x1200x2400</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$24.00</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right">2</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$48.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Top 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">0.998</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$4.99</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Bottom 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">0.998</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$4.99</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Stud 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">2.32</td>
<td align="right">3</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$34.80</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Nog 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">0.432</td>
<td align="right">4</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$8.64</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Nails</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$10.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Clips</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Paint</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Total</td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl68">$111.42</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Module7 1200x2400 Exterior
with 1175hx1010w window</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Shadowclad 12x1200x2440</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$162.00</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$162.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Gib 10x1200x2400</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$24.00</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$24.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Top 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">1.2</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$6.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Bottom 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">1.2</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$6.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Stud 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">2.32</td>
<td align="right">2</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$23.20</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Nog 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">0.5325</td>
<td align="right">4</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$10.65</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Glass-1275x1110x18</td>
<td></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$200.00</td>
<td align="right">1.4</td>
<td align="right">4</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$1,120.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Gasket</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$10.00</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$10.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Frame</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$10.00</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$10.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Window clips</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right">12</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$60.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Nails</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$10.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Batts R3.6, 1 sq m at $17/ sq m</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$17.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Clips</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Paint</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Total</td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl68">$1,458.85</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Module8 1200x2400 Exterior
with front door</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Shadowclad 12x1200x2440</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$162.00</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$162.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Gib 10x1200x2400</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$24.00</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$24.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Top 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">1.2</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$6.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Bottom 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">1.2</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$6.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Stud 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">2.32</td>
<td align="right">3</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$34.80</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Nog 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">0.5325</td>
<td align="right">4</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$10.65</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Door</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$100.00</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$100.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Door Handle</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$50.00</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$50.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Nails</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$10.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Batts R3.6, 1 sq m at $17/ sq m</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$17.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Clips</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Paint</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Total</td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl68">$420.45</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Module9 1110x2400 Exterior
with 1175hx400w window</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Shadowclad 12x1200x2440</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$162.00</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$162.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Gib 10x1200x2400</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$24.00</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$24.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Top 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">1.2</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$6.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Bottom 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">1.2</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$6.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Stud 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">2.32</td>
<td align="right">2</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$23.20</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Nog 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">0.5325</td>
<td align="right">4</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$10.65</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Glass-1275x500x18</td>
<td></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$200.00</td>
<td align="right">0.64</td>
<td align="right">4</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$512.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Gasket</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$10.00</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$10.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Frame</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$10.00</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$10.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Window clips</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right">8</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$40.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Nails</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$10.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Batts R3.6, 2 sq m at $17/ sq m</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$34.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Clips</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Paint</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Total</td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl68">$847.85</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Truss</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Top 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">4.6</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$23.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Bottom 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">3.6</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$18.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Vertical 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">0.545</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$2.73</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Vertical 90x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">0.28</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$1.40</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Nail Plates</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$1.40</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right">5</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$7.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Nails</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$10.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Total</td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl68">$62.13</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Purlins</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">70x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$4.00</td>
<td align="right">7.4</td>
<td align="right">9</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$266.40</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Nails</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$10.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Total</td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl68">$276.40</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Ceiling Battens</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">70x45</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$4.00</td>
<td align="right">6.92</td>
<td align="right">9</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$249.12</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Nails</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$10.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Total</td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl68">$259.12</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Fascia</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">180x18</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$15.00</td>
<td align="right">7.4</td>
<td align="right">2</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$222.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">135x18</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$11.17</td>
<td align="right">4.8</td>
<td align="right">2</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$107.23</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Paint</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Nails</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$10.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Total</td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl68">$339.23</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Gutter</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Gutter-Marley Stormcloud 5 m length</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$60.57</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right">2</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$121.14</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Gutter-Marley Stormcloud Joiner</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$3.25</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$3.25</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Gutter-Marley Stormcloud Outlet</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$30.49</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$30.49</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Gutter-Marley Stormcloud ends</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$4.85</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right">2</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$9.70</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Gutter Clips</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$2.61</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td></td>
<td align="right">8</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$20.88</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Nails</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$10.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Total</td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl68">$195.46</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Soffit</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">400x4.5</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$15.00</td>
<td align="right">7.4</td>
<td align="right">2</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$222.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">100x3.5</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$11.17</td>
<td align="right">4.8</td>
<td align="right">2</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$107.23</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Paint</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Nails</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$10.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Total</td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl68">$339.23</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Barge Flashing</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Long side-top</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$29.00</td>
<td align="right">7.4</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$214.60</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Sides</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$29.00</td>
<td align="right">4.8</td>
<td align="right">2</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$278.40</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Total</td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl68">$493.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl70" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Sub Floor Timber</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">140x45 Joists</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$11.00</td>
<td align="right">3.51</td>
<td align="right">19</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$733.59</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">90x45 Bearers</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$5.00</td>
<td align="right">7.2</td>
<td align="right">6</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$216.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Wire Dogs</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$0.43</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td></td>
<td align="right">34</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$14.62</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">Joist Hangers</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$4.36</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td></td>
<td align="right">30</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$130.80</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">125x125 Piles - $24/1.2m so $20/m,
ie $10 for 0.5m</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$10.00</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td align="right">21</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$210.00</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Concrete-pad is 0.0064 cu m</td>
<td></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$300.00</td>
<td align="right">0.0064</td>
<td align="right">21</td>
<td align="right" class="xl65">$40.32</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Total</td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td class="xl67"></td>
<td align="right" class="xl68">$1,345.33</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
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William Le Couteurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598156261928306734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485234105552604288.post-1571832507041658692020-01-19T11:51:00.002-08:002020-01-19T11:51:46.327-08:00Rectangle Listing AutolispCode as below-see<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lus7WLJ2wJQ&feature=youtu.be">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lus7WLJ2wJQ&feature=youtu.be</a><br />
<br />
It numbers rectangles and then lists their coordintes in a comma delimited file, ie .csv<br />
<br />
;Program written by Bill Le Couteur<br />
;Auckland NZ<br />
;Rev 0 date 29/11/17<br />
;This program selects rectangles and labels them with coordinates,length, width and area<br />
;<br />
;<br />
<br />
(defun c:LR()<br />
;(setvar "CMDECHO" 0)<br />
(setq oldsnapmode (getvar "osmode"))<br />
(setvar "osmode" 0)<br />
(command "ucs" "w")<br />
(setq the_count "500"); just a dummy so the while loop keeps going unless user escapes!<br />
(setq count 0)<br />
(setq SerialNo 1)<br />
(setq SerialNos (itoa SerialNo))<br />
(setq the_drg_path (getvar "DWGPREFIX"))<br />
(setq the_file_name (getstring "/nEnter the file name, no prefixes or suffixes: "))<br />
(setq the_text_height (getreal "/nEnter the text height needed: "))<br />
<br />
<br />
(setq full_file_name (strcat the_drg_path the_file_name ".csv"))<br />
<br />
;this makes sure the file is empty if first used!<br />
(if (not(equal beenthere T))<br />
(close (open full_file_name "w"))<br />
)<br />
<br />
<br />
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;WHILE LOOP TO GO PICK RECTANGLES ONE BY ONE;;;;;;;;;;;;<br />
<br />
(while (not(equal the_count "1000"))<br />
(progn<br />
<br />
(prompt "/npick the rectangle")<br />
(setq edata(entget(car(entsel)))) ;getting the pline's data<br />
(setq ename (cdr(assoc -1 edata)))<br />
(setq the_item (cdr (assoc 0 edata)))<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>;IF THE USER PICKS A CIRCLE, IT IS A SIGN TO STOP NOW, IE CLOSE THE FILE<br />
;(if (eq "CIRCLE" the_item)<br />
;<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(progn<br />
;<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(print "now closing")<br />
;<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(close fp)<br />
;<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(exit)<br />
;<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>)progn<br />
;);end if<br />
<br />
(print edata)<br />
;you can see the points in the edata list- they are the dotted pairs that start with 10.<br />
<br />
(foreach thing edata<br />
(progn<br />
(if(eq (car thing) 10 ); -ie only interested in the points<br />
(progn;if progn<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(print thing)<br />
(if (eq count 0)(setq the_point0 thing))<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(if (eq count 1)(setq the_point1 thing))<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(if (eq count 2)(setq the_point2 thing))<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(if (eq count 3)(setq the_point3 thing))<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(setq count (+ count 1))<br />
<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> );end progn<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>);end if<br />
);end foreach progn<br />
);end foreach<br />
<br />
(setq xvalue1 (nth 1 the_point0))<br />
(setq xvalue1s (rtos xvalue1 2 4))<br />
(setq yvalue1 (nth 2 the_point0))<br />
(setq yvalue1s (rtos yvalue1 2 4))<br />
(setq coordsA (strcat xvalue1s "," yvalue1s))<br />
<br />
(setq xvalue2 (nth 1 the_point1))<br />
(setq xvalue2s (rtos xvalue2 2 4))<br />
(setq yvalue2 (nth 2 the_point1))<br />
(setq yvalue2s (rtos yvalue2 2 4))<br />
(setq coordsB (strcat xvalue2s "," yvalue2s))<br />
<br />
(setq xvalue3 (nth 1 the_point2))<br />
(setq xvalue3s (rtos xvalue3 2 4))<br />
(setq yvalue3 (nth 2 the_point2))<br />
(setq yvalue3s (rtos yvalue3 2 4))<br />
(setq coordsC (strcat xvalue3s "," yvalue3s))<br />
<br />
(setq xvalue4 (nth 1 the_point3))<br />
(setq xvalue4s (rtos xvalue4 2 4))<br />
(setq yvalue4 (nth 2 the_point3))<br />
(setq yvalue4s (rtos yvalue4 2 4))<br />
(setq coordsD (strcat xvalue4s "," yvalue4s))<br />
<br />
<br />
(setq header_line "Sn,Ax,Ay,Bx,By,Cx,Cy,Dx,Dy,Length,Area")<br />
(setq the_length (- xvalue2 xvalue1))<br />
<br />
<br />
;;;;;;;;;FOR A NORMAL RECTANGLE;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;<br />
(if (> the_length 0)<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(progn<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(setq the_lengths (rtos the_length 2 4))<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(setq the_width (- yvalue3 yvalue1))<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(setq insert_pointx (+ xvalue1 (/ the_length 2)))<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(setq insert_pointy (+ yvalue1 (/ the_width 2)))<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(setq insert_point (list insert_pointx insert_pointy))<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>);end if progn<br />
);end if<br />
;;;;;;;;END OF FOR A NORMAL RECTANGLE;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;<br />
<br />
<br />
;;;;;;;;;FOR A REVERSE RECTANGLE;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;<br />
(if (< the_length 0)<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(progn<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(print "hello")<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(setq the_length (* the_length -1))<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(setq the_lengths (rtos the_length 2 4))<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(setq the_width (- yvalue3 yvalue1))<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(setq insert_pointx (- xvalue1 (/ the_length 2)))<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(setq insert_pointy (+ yvalue1 (/ the_width 2)))<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(setq insert_point (list insert_pointx insert_pointy))<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>);end if progn<br />
);end if<br />
;;;;;;;;END OF FOR A REVERSE RECTANGLE;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;<br />
<br />
<br />
(if (< the_width 0)(setq the_width (* the_width -1)))<br />
(setq the_area (* the_length the_width))<br />
(setq the_areas (rtos the_area))<br />
<br />
(setq the_line (strcat SerialNos "," CoordsA "," CoordsB "," CoordsC "," CoordsD "," the_lengths "," the_areas))<br />
<br />
<br />
(setq the_text_height 300)<br />
<br />
<br />
(setq fp (open full_file_name "a"))<br />
(if (not(equal beenthere2 T)) (write-line header_line fp))<br />
(write-line the_line fp)<br />
(command "text" "j" "m" insert_point the_text_height 0 SerialNos)<br />
<br />
(setq SerialNo (+ SerialNo 1))<br />
(setq SerialNos (itoa SerialNo))<br />
<br />
(setq beenthere2 T)<br />
<br />
(setq count 0)<br />
<br />
);END OF WHILE PROGN<br />
);END OF WHILE<br />
<br />
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;END OF WHILE LOOP TO GO PICK RECTANGLES ONE BY ONE;;;;;;;;;;;;<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
(close fp)<br />
(setq beenthere T)<br />
<br />
<br />
(command "ucs" "w")<br />
;(setvar "CMDECHO" 1)<br />
(setvar "osmode" oldsnapmode)<br />
(princ)<br />
)<br />
<br />
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William Le Couteurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598156261928306734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485234105552604288.post-37904964497507323192019-10-08T19:12:00.001-07:002019-10-08T19:12:23.664-07:00Finally retired?Maybe. I have been doing domestic stuff , and in between times entering competitions on Freelancer.<br />
<br />
My designs are OK, but there is always some genius out there who usually trumps me at the last minute - and especially when the job needs an artistic sense, it seems I am not in the game.<br />
<br />
For things like phone holders and so on I am using a combination of Autocad and Showcase to do my entries, so I cannot blame the tools.<br />
<br />
This is the phone holder:<br />
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<br />
The Mall Kiosk:<br />
<br />
<br />
:<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvEZIQXrmM08FCL_ZY8cI1efq_g2O_GxfvLPNbDhHp_USJFVnDN0GGi6eE-Jwb-3LSCn1zgsVcSd9USPaIoxjtCK20ui94XYkRJaJfZIRX2bVR-uWMmj1rQBPTYod4TOmBAshaNmVABGo-/s1600/Mall+Kiosk4.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvEZIQXrmM08FCL_ZY8cI1efq_g2O_GxfvLPNbDhHp_USJFVnDN0GGi6eE-Jwb-3LSCn1zgsVcSd9USPaIoxjtCK20ui94XYkRJaJfZIRX2bVR-uWMmj1rQBPTYod4TOmBAshaNmVABGo-/s320/Mall+Kiosk4.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />
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<br />
A kitchen bin:<br />
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<br />
As the saying goes: "Don't give up your day job!"<br />
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<br />William Le Couteurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598156261928306734noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485234105552604288.post-12259875593807772019-04-19T02:24:00.001-07:002019-04-19T02:24:34.066-07:00The Old DraftsmanOnce Upon a Time, a young engineer went for a walk in the forest.<br />
He came upon an old man, sitting on a tree stump, staring into space.<br />
<br />
"Hello," he said, "What are you doing here?"<br />
"Ah," said the old man, "I used to be a draftsman, but then I went mad, so they sent me here."<br />
"Oh? Why did you go mad?" said the young engineer.<br />
"It does not matter now, " the old draftsman replied, "but it was something about drawings that had to be changed,<br />
and then they wanted me to draw a diagram of the Hazardous Areas in the plant, anyway, I see you are an engineer."<br />
<br />
"How did you pick that?"<br />
"Well, it's easy. You have in your hand a bunch of drawings that are printed out with grey lines instead of black."<br />
"Oh that....Well I just get into Autocad and hit the Print button and that's what I get."<br />
<br />
A glimmer of hope entered the old draftsman's eye and he said:<br />
"You know, you don't have to do that. It is very simple not to, can I explain how to do it?"<br />
"Noooooo!" wailed the young engineer, "I'm an engineer, I don't have to know that stuff!"<br />
<br />
"Please!" entreated the old draftsman, falling to his knees and tugging on the young engineer's sleeve,"you can do it!<br />
After all, you must be reasonably clever just to do those Engineer's Exams?"<br />
<br />
"Well...I suppose so." he answered.<br />
<br />
"OK," said the old draftsman "it goes like this: Once upon a time in a land far away and long ago,two elves were designing Autocad."<br />
One turned to the other and said: "How are we going to get thick and thin lines to come out?"<br />
To which the other replied "I know, let's make it one colour for thin lines and another for thick lines."<br />
Then the other said: "How can we make the computer remember which colours are related to which fat or thin lines?"<br />
"That's easy," replied the other, "we can store the values in a separate file,let's call the file extension .ctb,<br />
which stands for colour table....hmm dunno what the b stands for but we have to have 3 letters so there you go."<br />
<br />
The old draftsman, sighed, and said:<br />
"Well that's all there is to it: Just hit the print button and in the top right hand corner of the dialog box<br />
there is a selection of ctb files to choose from. I'd suggest you choose the one your draftsman seems to use-<br />
you can spot it right away usually,because it is right at the bottom of the list, called something like 'Freds.ctb'."<br />
<br />
The young engineer lived happily ever after.William Le Couteurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598156261928306734noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485234105552604288.post-86404769320898539132018-12-13T11:11:00.001-08:002018-12-13T11:11:03.679-08:00Hardware and Software for CADI must be nuts! Writing on 3 CAD blogs?<br />
Autocad <br />
Revit<br />
Sketchup<br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Software: </span></b><br />
Not such an easy question to answer, mine at the moment is swinging towards using Autocad 3D solids to model houses. This after a brief foray into the land of Sketchup. Revit I find wonderful and maddening in equal measure, and will probably end up going down that rabbit hole.<br />
<br />
Common to all of these is you have to have a suitable computer to run any of them.<br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Hardware:</span></b><br />
My computer is getting on a bit now (like me) and just lately has started freeze up crashes that are only fixed by disconnecting the power.<br />
<br />
So my options are:<br />
<br />
1. Replace the hard drive in my existing Z230 with a new SSD for around NZ$150. My wife would certainly see that one as a no-brainer. The Z230 has had it's original K2000 graphics card replaced with a P2000 Quadro, which gives life to the old girl. Using Enscape on it is a delight. but paying for Enscape, not quite so much fun.<br />
<br />
2.Buy a new computer. Immediately there is a choice: Workstation or PC? A man who started work with me, suggested the following PC:<br />
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CPU - Intel i7-8700k<span style="mso-tab-count: 7;"> </span>$659.00</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Silver AS5-3.5G Thermal
Compound 3.5<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>$20.00<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Cooler Master Hyper H411R CPU Cooler with 92mm White LED PWM
Fan$44.00<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
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Motherboard - Gigabyte Z390 I AORUS PRO WIFI ITX<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>$401.00</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
"Hard drive - Samsung 970 Evo M.2 (2280),NVMe SSD
R/W(Max)</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
3,400MB/s/2,300MB/s"<span style="mso-tab-count: 7;"> </span>$228.00</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Memory - G.SKILL Trident Z Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4
3200Mhz CL16<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>$616.00</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Power Supply Unit - Cooler Master MWE Gold 650W 80Plus Gold
Full</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Modular Power Supply<span style="mso-tab-count: 7;"> </span>$162.00</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Case - Cooler Master Elite 130 Ultra Compact Mini-ITX USB3.0<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>$79.35</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
"Monitor - Philips BDM4350UC/75 43"" 4K"<span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>$885.00</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Mouse - LG Wired<span style="mso-tab-count: 7;"> </span>$109.00</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Mouse mat<span style="mso-tab-count: 7;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>$26.00</div>
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Keyboard - Mechanical (cherry brown) (PB Tech G413</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Mechanical Backlit gaming-carbon)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>$148.00</div>
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CD/DVD Writer <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(PB
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2. The other option is a high spec HP Workstation, which has a supposedly better graphics card in the P4000, namely a<span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span style="font-size: small;">HP Z6 G4 3FF57PA</span></span><br />
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<span class="pj-ui-product-core-properties--property">Processor model: Intel Xeon Silver 4116</span><span class="pj-ui-product-core-properties--property">RAM size: 32 GB </span><span class="pj-ui-product-core-properties--property">Graphics processor: Quadro P4000 </span><span class="pj-ui-product-core-properties--property">Type of chassis: Miditower</span><span class="pj-ui-product-core-properties--property">Flash/SSD</span></div>
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<span class="pj-ui-product-core-properties--property">One of these is around NZ$7000, so unless you had huge amounts of highly paid work in front of you, is probably a bit on the high side. </span></div>
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<span class="pj-ui-product-core-properties--property">A friend has pointed me in the direction of some articles, which can be found on the Cadalyst site:</span></div>
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<span class="pj-ui-product-core-properties--property">http://www.cadalyst.com/hardware/workstations.</span></div>
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<span class="pj-ui-product-core-properties--property">Just to make things even more painful, I am still running with Autocad 2016, which may or may not run 4K nicely, should I go completely mad and get a 43" 4K monitor. It may run, but with a bit of tweaking.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">After several rebuffs, I got the message: "We don't want to know."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Sadly, I found this solitary fact about humans: They do not want to know about doing things more efficiently.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">It is almost as if they have learnt for themselves some stupid technique, and because they have done this, they own it. That means any other way must be rejected.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">I myself am not immune to this process, but if the correct way and reasons for it are placed in front of me, I have on occasion changed my method.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">My latest project is a case in point. As an architectural draftsman, one of the more annoying parts of drawing a house is the assembling of the details. For an ordinary house, this might come to around twenty A3 sheets, with as much as four details per sheet.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Drafting drudgery! Surely it would be quick an easy to whip up a program to do this?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Using Autolisp was not an option as we are using Autocad LT. in the past I have used Microsoft Visual Basic to serve as a means to generate an Autocad script, so I decided to go down this rabbit hole.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Three months of weekends and nights slaving over something a real programmer would see as a trivial job, I finished it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">A very simple one form program, all it presents is a list of details on a panel which you choose from. Once chosen, a preview appears. Pressing another button copies the file name to another panel. Once you have a list, next press another button to generate an Autocad script.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Running the script in Autocad inserts new layouts and viewports. In model space a set of reference bubbles is found which you then put on your elevation.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">The ethical consideration of letting a thing like this loose could be concerning.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Instead of spending say one hour inserting details you might spend five minutes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Less work for draftsmen. On the other hand, if I don't do it, someone else will.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Which leads me to the strange system of architectural drafting that is the standard at the moment, which is that every drawing office has it's stock of details which it inserts in the set of building consent drawings.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">This to me, is nuts!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">What is to stop the government from issuing a book of standard details to every builder? Then all the architect need do is refer to this book in his drawings?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Of course, not all would be covered, but for an ordinary house they would be.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">Anyway, check out my video on YouTube at:</span></div>
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William Le Couteurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598156261928306734noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485234105552604288.post-37214191224509774572018-01-18T09:49:00.000-08:002018-01-18T09:49:14.281-08:00I did it myyyyy way!Which, sometimes, is not everyone else's way! Recently the boss got me onto a duplex. The source was a drawing already done by an architect in cad, as a PDF file.<br />
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Oh goody, I thought, I can try out the 2017 Autocad LT command PDF import. It seemed to do an excellent job on it, so I scaled it up and away I went, being Mr Efficiency, converting all the layers to our ones. What I did not take on board, was that the boss, as an owner of the business, wanted things like windows to have a consistent look, and I appreciate that now.<br />
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What also proved annoying was the appearance of inaccuracy, namely walls that were not 90.000, but 90.200. Some were, some were not, so everything had to be checked, which makes me think it would have been faster to draw it from scratch.<br />
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Then my co-worker mentioned that she found layers named "gf New dim" annoying. Why not just name them "gf dim"? Well I said that is my doing, because I wanted to have a constant layer set across all jobs, ie residential, commercial and renovation, so I can use my scripts to change colours of layers so I can see what layers I am on. Currently we only use three colours, so you never quite know what layer an item is. Needless to say I have a script button that changes all my multicoloured stuff back to good ole red and white!<br />
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I am supposedly retiring end of March, and propose to work from home an a contract basis, so it appears I am more wedded to my work than I thought I was.<br />
<br />William Le Couteurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598156261928306734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485234105552604288.post-84681942597755817532017-12-02T16:38:00.002-08:002017-12-18T18:21:34.298-08:00Modelling a Cleaner's TrolleyFor the last week and a half, I have been laid off work (boss overloaded), so I have been keeping myself busy by entering competitions. Be warned, these do not pay very much, and if you do not win, you get nothing for all your work.<br />
Still, it seems I have to be cadding along somehow. One of the competitions was for a motorised version of a cleaner's trolley. I was quite disappointed when the number of stars I got was 3, and other entries which were just hand sketches got 4 stars. Oh well, this is life! I put quite a lot of consideration into exactly what was going into the trolley, and how it was to be accessed. The more highly rated did not seem to even consider the items to go inside.<br />
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Here is my entry, modelled in Autocad 3D solids, and rendered in Showcase:<br />
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<br />William Le Couteurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598156261928306734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485234105552604288.post-80351239166043074322017-11-04T21:00:00.002-07:002017-11-04T21:00:21.012-07:00Drawing a Roof Structure Using 3D solids in AutocadWhere I work as an architectural draftsman, I recently had to draw a renovation that had a nasty roof on it. Not that nasty, but the question was, if a wall was removed, will the roof fall down?<br />
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By drawing in 2D you can make a few close guesses, so on the weekend I cranked up dear old Autocad to see what it would be in 3D.<br />
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The underlying drawing was not accurate, which accounts at least for some of the shoddy drafting!<br />
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More of an attempt to understand the structure. <br />
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Last thought....how much of a drama to produce this in Revit?<br />
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The positions of the rafters were found from a set of solid planes that were representative of the purlins layer, not drawn as individual purlins, but as a set of intersecting planes. <br />
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<br />William Le Couteurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598156261928306734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485234105552604288.post-86279822784460924042017-08-18T06:09:00.001-07:002017-08-18T06:09:05.327-07:00Drawing sections and elevations in the same placeContinued.<br />
I have to admit defeat on this one. Apparently on a recent job we had a coved ceiling on the elevation, and naughty me drew a standard section, using my separate is good technique, leading my boss to point out that had I combined the two, I would not have made that error. The builder coped somehow.<br />
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Score one for the boss. He also said my technique of separating out the building plan from the site plan was annoying for others who wanted to work on one of my drawings. So can I please put the eggs an ham in the same frying pan? <br />
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So, ok, I will just have to cope somehow, taking a productivity hit. Every time I open up Revit and work in 3D, it just feels a lot nicer way of working anyway.<br />
<br />William Le Couteurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598156261928306734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485234105552604288.post-44103422465421192382017-07-07T01:56:00.001-07:002017-07-07T01:56:29.584-07:00Mired in laziness<h3>
<u> Layers</u></h3>
A few things are niggling me. One is layers. Seems like they multiply like rabbits. If you are drawing a single level house it is nice to have a certain set of layers. If you are doing a reno, yet another set. Don't get me started about a 2 storey house because that is yet another set.<br />
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Oh yeah, what about that 3 level mansion? How about commercial stuff?<br />
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My dubious approach has been to run with what has gone before. Which is find a drawing that is nearest to what you are going to work on and do a save as of that. Trouble is, every time you do a drawing you have to insert blocks, and here they all come: the rogue layers!<br />
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Before you can blink, seems like just too many layers. My layer management system is very crude- I have scripts that work on the idea that anything on the ground floor is labelled something like<br />
GF-DIM. Which begs the question: why have one layer for dimensions and one for text? Seems crazy to me.<br />
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I would love to have a couple of days to sort them out, but too busy working. One thing I am trying though is a scheme where all layers are the same, across all types of work. To this end you end up with layers like GF-NEW EXT WALL, which is pretty plain in it's meaning. This would enable me to use the same scripts for all work.<br />
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The problem can come when you want say a drainage stack to appear on say the second floor framing plan and the ground floor as well. Which can be got around in the script, but it means that layer must exist or the script crashes. I have started work on a script that blasts the drawing with all the layers I want in the colours I want.<br />
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<u> Working Styles</u></h3>
I am slowly evolving a work style that is supposedly working smarter, but was probably the lazy me thinking of the easy way out without giving things too much thought. <br />
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My technique is to have a plan view in the middle of the drawing, which has all the building stuff on it, no site stuff. Above this, but lined up with it is one of elevations, upside down of course, then the site with the house outline on it.<br />
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You might say not a good plan as the outlines now have to be updated each time something changes.<br />
True, but if you ever reuse that building for a different site it makes it a straight forward job. Which you could counter which: No, it is better to have the site mixed in with the building and just manage your layers better. To which I say: It is better to get into model space and get on with the job, and not horse around with layers.<br />
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Same with sections: No, to having them plastered on your elevations! Just gets tedious filtering layers endlessly every time you want to work on something. <br />
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<u><b>Using Autocad LT to draw houses</b></u></h3>
You may be aware that I have a copy of Revit, and have been trying to come up to speed with that, which is a bigger task than you might think. Any fool, (includes me!) can leap onto Revit and produce a sort of a drawing of a house. The fun begins when you find you want a window with a brick sill, and you cannot find one in Revit City.<br />
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Recently we had a job where the plan of the house was in the shape of an S. Which in Autocad LT meant hours of me tediously drawing windows which were oblique to the view. In Revit, no worries, just insert them in the wall and the go choose your view . Hmmf! Not to mention the lack of real customer engagement as any nicely drawn elevation is all very professional looking, but as far as I can see does not get the customer to appreciate what the house will look like in reality.<br />
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So, what is the answer? As usual, a lemon.<br />
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That Revit is where it at, is further enhanced by an add-on for Revit called Enscape, which allows real time rendering, as well as being easy to use. Yes, you can do renders in Revit, but the sky always looks unconvincing. Trouble is, it costs $45.00 per month.<br />
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<br />William Le Couteurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598156261928306734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485234105552604288.post-65587331951665644962017-04-16T14:57:00.000-07:002017-07-07T01:08:46.145-07:00To 2D or 3D for an architectural detailFirst of all, this is not my design.<br />
I am still at a learning stage when it comes to special details such a this one.<br />
The job is a re-clad, and this little area turned out a bit of a challenge.<br />
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At work, I did this in 2D, and this is the result:<span id="goog_1331648208"></span><br />
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<span id="goog_1331648207"></span>William Le Couteurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598156261928306734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485234105552604288.post-32432317261016363592016-12-14T00:24:00.001-08:002016-12-14T00:24:55.415-08:00How it goes...Just need to revise these drawings....just need a gas bottle on the plan view.<br />
....just need an easement boundary on the site plan of that one.<br />
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In my mind: This should only take about 10 minutes. Wait, I'm always out, so<br />
multiply by the "Bill Factor" This is about 3 usually, so say 30 minutes.<br />
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Decision: I need the following:<br />
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1. A <b>button that inserts a revision triangle</b><br />
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2. A <b>button that inserts a polyline </b>across the whole drawing and is on the<br />
defpoints layer so it does not print but anyone looking through the layout tabs<br />
can quickly tell which layout tabs were revised. So they do not get confused the<br />
next time the drawing set gets revised ;)<br />
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3. A <b>button that puts a draft stamp on the drawing</b>.<br />
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An hour later, done.<br />
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All this fiddling around with buttons adds another 15 minutes to that hour.<br />
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Previously I had some of these several mouse clicks away in a menu pull down.<br />
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So why are these not a built in part of Autocad? Even if it was just a<br />
ctrl key + letter?<br />
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Another thing missing: Automatic bubble inserting, eg, you have bracing which needs<br />
a series of sequential numbers in little circles.<br />
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We have LT, so I had to get creative here - no lisp on LT.<br />
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What I did it was create 24 little blocks each with a circle and a number.<br />
Then a macro that inserted them one after the other, something along the lines<br />
of -insert;"c:/cad/library/bubbles/bubble1.dwg";\;1;1;0; repeated 24 times.<br />
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Again, how come we do not have this sort of thing built in?<br />
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William Le Couteurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598156261928306734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485234105552604288.post-32567294839532681392016-09-06T12:49:00.000-07:002016-09-06T12:49:16.545-07:00A cautionary tale.....While seemingly not related to Autocad, it actually is.<br />
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Every sensible person knows that if you use a computer, you should do a backup now and then in case all turns sour.<br />
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I thought that I had been a good boy in this department, but it turns out, not so good.<br />
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One of my recent jobs was a set of apartment houses and as such kept a pretty good backup.<br />
Of my lisp routines....maybe not so good!<br />
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So when my operating system finally kicked the bucket (Windows 10? who knows?), I took it to the man, thinking he might be able to resurrect it with some magic tricks.<br />
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But no. All too difficult it seemed, so it was decided he was able to save the data on the hard drive and reinstall Windows 7 ("your computer is maybe not geared up for Windows 10"...)<br />
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Ok then. Well it would have been, but he only copied what was in Documents, deleting the other gazillion gigabytes on the rest of the drive!<br />
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So....take a look at your storage, and over do the backups!<br />
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I have found a system of backwards date names for the files is good, for instance:<br />
20160907 Backup, which means done in 2016, 09 means September and 07 is the day.<br />
When you have a lot of these folders, they will sort themselves in date order in Windows Explorer.<br />
<br />William Le Couteurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598156261928306734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485234105552604288.post-19202594489999460002016-07-18T17:37:00.001-07:002016-09-06T12:51:19.320-07:00Them there pesky contours...You have a site plan, onto which you have put spot levels obtained from a field trip to the farm. <br />
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The need now, is to convert these to contours. To do this accurately, you have to calculate the distance between two spot levels and then calculate from them, and the level information. <br />
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Which is a lot of calculation and fiddling around.<br />
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So, another lost weekend later I have a lisp routine that does this. No doubt someone has already done something similar, but at least I can say I did it my way!<span id="goog_1948745223"></span><br />
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In the pic below you can see the spot levels in grey, and the contour text in red-in NZ we do them every half a metre.<br />
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Of course, you have to draw in the contour lines in afterwards, but the points are accurate, not guesses.<br />
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The next routine that flows from is where you pick two spot points, and then a third point, and the elevation of that third point is marked with an X and it's elevation put on the defpoints layer.<br />
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You can see the demo at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F8ke6Ogw7o">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F8ke6Ogw7o</a>William Le Couteurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598156261928306734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485234105552604288.post-29665924272348596322016-06-04T18:44:00.004-07:002016-06-04T18:45:10.386-07:00Setting up an Architectural Drawing.....Fast!This is an add on to the last post, showing on Youtube a video of my Detail Monkey in action.<br />
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Needless to say, the first time used in anger, resulted in the boss complaining that we always do our floor plan on sheet 11! (Not sheet 15). <br />
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So back to the drawing board to make it so.<br />
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Which is a bit depressing because the shortcomings of such a system became evident, namely that this results in some sheets appearing with not a lot on them. Not a huge problem as you can easily cut and paste from layout to layout. Still, a realisation that this is not the final solution!<br />
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In the mean time, I have been like a little bee, checking out Chief Architect, Archicad and Revit in the search for the best 3D residential home design package. This is quite hard, because if you look on the internet, really good appraisals of each are not easy to come by. <br />
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Still have the nagging feeling that I could maybe design one based on Autocad 3D solids. I would need to be able to draw individual bricks, which means using surfaces, and last time I mixed solids and surfaces the results were not good. That was about 15 years ago! So it might be worth a try now.William Le Couteurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598156261928306734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485234105552604288.post-6906945061551313362016-05-18T00:56:00.003-07:002016-05-18T01:12:25.310-07:00Meanwhile, back in the real world.....<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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Details. Yurgh! Maybe there are some strange draftees love doing these.</div>
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What irritates me about architectural drafting is the endless details to be done.</div>
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Not only done, but cross referenced back to a plan/elevation or section. Seems like the same</div>
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ones come up time after time, but each drawing is different.</div>
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So,then I had<b> <i><u>the usual rush of blood to the head</u></i>: </b>what if you kept a strict numbering system?</div>
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Such that you would always know that for instance, a concrete rib raft foundation with bricks is ALWAYS on tab 51?</div>
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Then, just to really amp things up, have a VB program that offers the person starting a drawing a series of choices: 1 storey or 2? Brick or Weatherboard? and so on, which would be used to generate an Autocad Script.</div>
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You start with a base drawing that has 0-Cover Sheet (list of all the drawings) 1-Site (because all drawings have a site plan) 2-Site notes (You always should have these!).</div>
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The VB program generates an Autocad script (we use LT here), to consult the godzilla drawing file that has around 60 tabs on it, and insert the relevant tab into the base drawing.</div>
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1. Run the program, the user clicks on radio buttons, choosing what is relevant to the building he wants to draw.</div>
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2. Drag this script into a drawing that has only 3 tabs in it.</div>
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Not only that, but I have done proof of principle for the idea that if you choose say a concrete foundation with a brick wall, then the reference bubble is automatically put into the foundation plan, referencing the detail.</div>
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To do all the rest of the reference bubbles might take a while. Depends if my work wants to use the idea. Or if anyone reading this wants to part with some dosh! </div>
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This is the listing of the template drawing that has all the possible tabs on it, (excuse the lousy formatting). It looks like there is room for more details, but I may be getting near the limit for the number of tabs.</div>
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<td>Site Plan</td>
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<td>Earthworks Plan</td>
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<td>Existing Ground Floor Plan</td>
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<td>Foundation Plan</td>
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<td>Eave/Verge Detail-Trapeziodal Tin with Brick</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">66</td>
<td>Eave/Verge Detail-Trapeziodal Tin with Shiplap WB</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">67</td>
<td>Eave/Verge Detail-Trapeziodal Tin with Rusticated WB</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">68</td>
<td>Eave/Verge Detail-Trapeziodal Tin with Brick/ Bevel Backed WB</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">69</td>
<td>Eave/Verge Detail-Metal Tile with Brick</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">70</td>
<td>Eave/Verge Detail-Metal Tile with
Bevel Backed WB</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">71</td>
<td>Eave/Verge Detail-Metal Tile with
Shiplap WB</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">72</td>
<td>Eave/Verge Detail-Metal Tile with
Rusticated WB</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">73</td>
<td>Eave/Verge Detail-Metal Tile with Brick/ Bevel Backed WB</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">74</td>
<td>Eave/Verge Detail-Shingles with Brick</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">75</td>
<td>Eave/Verge Detail-Shingles with
Bevel Backed WB</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">76</td>
<td>Eave/Verge Detail-Shingles with
Shiplap WB</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">77</td>
<td>Eave/Verge Detail-Shingles with
Rusticated WB</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">78</td>
<td>Eave/Verge Detail-Shingles with Brick/ Bevel Backed WB</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">79</td>
<td>Eave/Verge Detail-Flat Roof with Bevel Backed WB</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">80</td>
<td>Concrete Tile Detail - Ridge and Valley</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">81</td>
<td>Trapeziodal Roof Detail - Ridge and Valley</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">82</td>
<td>Metal Tile Detail - Ridge and Valley</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">83</td>
<td>Timber Floor Details</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">84</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">85</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">86</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">87</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">88</td>
<td></td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">89</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">90</td>
<td></td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">91</td>
<td></td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">92</td>
<td></td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">93</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">94</td>
<td></td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">95</td>
<td></td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">96</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">97</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">98</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">99</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">100</td>
<td>Durability Notes</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">101</td>
<td>Lumberlok Details 1</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">102</td>
<td>Lumberlok Details 2</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">103</td>
<td>GIB shower-Tiled Walls and Base/Bath Tiled Upstand</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">104</td>
<td>GIB shower-Acrylic Shower</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">105</td>
<td>Common Details</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">106</td>
<td></td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">107</td>
<td></td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">108</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">109</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">110</td>
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The results are:<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Autocad LT : 2.5 hours</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Revit: 1.5 hours</span></b><br />
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Proof can be viewed at.<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCnowQThv4s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCnowQThv4s</a><br />
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I came across as a bit of a novice user occasionally, so in the hands of an experienced user, you would expect an even quicker time.<br />
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Still, drafting is not all about creation of geometry, as I am finding in my job that the focus is not so much on the drawing as on the annotations. I would prefer Autocad to do 2D annotations, but this could be my lack of familiarity with the Revit detailing options, which do have all sorts of nick nacks, for example to draw insulation, you just pick two points and there it is.<br />
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<br />William Le Couteurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598156261928306734noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485234105552604288.post-73015132994505503892016-03-08T01:09:00.000-08:002016-03-08T01:09:33.357-08:00So.....which is faster, Autocad or Revit?I have just spent most of the weekend producing 10 videos, uploaded to Youtube, for the Autocad section of this test. Just a bog standard NZ house, single level, part brick and weatherboard.<br />
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Plan, elevations, and 2 sections: 2 and 1/2 hours, which is not too bad I thought. So why have I just spent 6 hours at work, just altering a house that was already drawn? Not sure really- could be that I am still feeling my way with how things are done. For example: with a roof plan layout, you do not normally show the internal walls, unless they are load bearing. Plus if you have land that is on a slope and you have to do a sectional view, all bets are off, as you have to massage a site plan to be acceptable.<br />
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Here is the link to the first of the 10:<br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_273861645"><br /></a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieMeaGc8pDU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieMeaGc8pDU</a><br />
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I am hoping to do the identical plan in Revit, which may cause skewed results because I am not a long time Revit user, but I will get a bit of practice in beforehand, next weekend.<br />
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It could be argued I do things the slow way, but I have tried my reasonable best to think of quicker ways of doing things. <br />
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About half my time was spent organizing blocks and a pull down menu. I tried to do a few screen shots, but you cannot hold a pull down menu down and then use the snipping tool. If you watch the videos, you will see this in action - albeit with some blocks not coming in because their name was not quite right!<br />
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Pull down menus are really easy to make, and if someone else on the network wants it, it takes 2 minutes to install it for them.<br />
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This is the format to use:<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">***MENUGROUP=GMB</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">***POP18</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">[Details 2D]</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">[->Decks-Joining to House]</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>[Weather boards]-insert;"C:/CAD/GB/Details-2D/Decks-joining to house/DTH-150X50 Joists-to Weatherboards.dwg";\1;1;0;</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>[Bricks]-insert;"C:/CAD/GB/Details-2D/Decks-joining to house/DTH-150X50 Joists-to Weatherboards-to Existing Lower Brick Wall.dwg";\1;1;0;</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>[<-butynol ecks-joining="" etails-2d="" font="" house.dwg="" house="" insert="" joists-deck="" sloping="" to="" towards=""><!---butynol--></-butynol></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">[->Decks-outer edge]</span><br />
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You just make this using Notepad, then in Autocad use customise user interface, to insert it.<br />
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There are no doubt really good explanations on how to do this on the internet.<br />
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One of my ones I was was quite proud of was an inserted window block in plan, which brought in it's elevation at the same time. Another time saver was the one to insert whole rooms at once, eg bathroom, toilet and so on. The block for doors was not wonderful, and a bit clunky to use. Could have been a dynamic block. <br />
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Here is the final result:<br />
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<br />William Le Couteurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598156261928306734noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485234105552604288.post-38139231669620053472016-02-15T00:38:00.001-08:002016-02-15T00:38:26.245-08:00New ways of using AutocadMy new job has offered up some different ways of doing things.<br />
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1. You work "in the viewport", from paperspace. You can do this because the viewport's property is "locked". Very disconcerting for an aged draftee used to doing most things in model space.<br />
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2. Using "layer filters". I have not totally mastered the use of these yet but am making some progress.<br />
The idea is you set up a filter, say "GF*" and it will ignore all else and show only layers that begin with GF, eg GF interior wall.<br />
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3. They use lots of layers. This takes a bit of getting used to. No rigid "color by layer" rules. Same with linetypes- some by layer, some not. Only the first 8 colours are used, so it is hard to know which layer you are on unless you keep an eye on the layer box display.<br />
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4. My worst trick is to be on say the foundation layer, nip into the ground floor viewport and start drawing, only to find nothing appears. Because it is frozen in the viewport, dumbo!<br />
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5, Using a Sheet Set to control the title block. The title is not a block actually, just some lines and a few text fields. These are controlled by the Sheet Set. Each new job has to have a dst file copied across to the directory.<br />
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6. Everything is drawn on top of each other. Seems a good idea for sections with elevations, but plan views get very messy looking in model space.<br />
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I set up buttons to show for example, only the ground floor stuff. This worked fine, until I opened up a different drawing only to find the layer names were not consistent. So the button approach was a waste of time, until I realised a "negative" system would work: just get a button to do the following:<br />
-layer;f;GF*;; This means freeze all the layers that start with GF. The ; is autocad macro language for the enter key. <br />
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The catch with this is you have to just keep pruning away until you have what you want, without coming across the famous "cannot freeze the current layer" dialog. Got around by setting the layer you want before pressing the button.<br />
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