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Vertical Compound Wall

December 6, 2009 in AutoCAD, CAD, Revit

in shaded view We have defined the wall structure horizontally. Now we are going to make another wall type that define how is the wall defined vertically.
Activate wall tool. We are going to make some modification to wall type we created in this tutorial.
We are going to make a different type of wall for them. With those walls selected, click element properties > type properties. Let’s create another duplicate for the brick wall type. Click duplicate and give the type name: ‘vertical compound brick wall’.
Click edit button next to structure parameter. These steps are exactly the same like what we did before. But this time, we are going to work by looking at the section view, not floor plan. Change the view from floor plan to section. It’s at the bottom of this dialog box.
view section

You will see the preview become like this. You can zoom and pan the preview just like in your model. Use scroll button to zoom and mid button to pan the view. Alternatively, you can use the steering wheel by clicking the magnifier button at the left bottom of this dialog. Zoom until you see the wall layers and the wall bottom.
steering wheel
In the right bottom of this dialog, the’ modify vertical structure’ tools are now active. Click split region.
modify vertical structure
In the preview dialog box, move your pointer until you see the tool tip showing layer 1: exterior finish. You should split it 1000mm from the wall base.
split wall
Click to split it.
You can select the split line and adjust the height by activating modify tool. You can press [tab] several times to cycle between overlapping objects.
Now on the wall layers list, click the exterior finish to select it. Click insert to add one more layer. With the new layer selected, click assign layers in modify vertical structure group.
What are we going to do is to assign the new layer to the bottom part of the exterior layer. Click the bottom layer.
click to assign layer
You should see the color is now different. Now change the layer function to finish 1 [4] and the material to a new material. Use one of an existing stone rendering material. Don’t forget to make a duplicate first.
final layers
Now we have defined different materials for exterior finish. Now we are going to add a sweep and a couple of reveals.
Click sweeps from modify vertical structure tool group. Click ‘add’ to add a new sweep. Download this file. It contain sweep and reveal profile. Click load profile then open wall sweep.rfa.
Change the profile to wall sweep: wall sweep. Change the material as necessary. Change the distance value to 1000. Change the ‘from’ field to base. The last one, make sure the side field is set to exterior side.
sweeps
Click OK. Review your wall sweep. It’s the rectangle 1000mm above wall base.
sweep
Now we will add some reveals. Click reveals button.
Load the wall reveal.rfa for our reveals. Click add, and set these properties:

  1. Profile: wall reveal : wall reveal
  2. Distance: 1200
  3. From: base
  4. Side: exterior

We’ve just added one reveal. Click duplicate twice to add two more reveals. Change the distance to 1350 and 1500 consecutively. Click OK. Review your wall. Close all the dialogs and review your wall in 3D view.

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Manufacturing is changing in the United States

December 6, 2009 in CAD, Kubotek

We all know that recessions can be devastating to companies and more so to the people, but there are some good things that come out of it as well.

  • Businesses become more creative and efficient
  • People become more creative and efficient
  • New opportunities appear
  • Survival mode kicks in and we make it past the tough times

Manufacturing in the United States has seen plenty of devastating events during this recession, but I see some hope.  There are new companies sprouting up in the manufacturing world that are taking advantage of our strengths.  Much like the wave of micro brewers, we are seeing micro manufacturing companies.  Check out this company (www.local-motors.com), they have the right idea.  Of course, I think they should use our KeyCreator 3D Direct CAD software and other engineering tools, but that’s not my point.

I see a great future for manufacturing in this country, but we need to work real hard to get there.  Let’s fight our way outside the normal business habits of today and inspire new and better ways of doing things.  Here’s a hint, think about humanity and not about profits, and a better world will follow.

Don’t forget to come visit us at www.kubotekusa.com and we’ll show you some engineering software that will blow you away!

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Let your skin glow

November 8, 2009 in CAD, IntelliCAD, progeADD-ons, progecad

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Precise Input: Using AccuSnap

November 7, 2009 in AutoCAD, CAD, Revit

clip_image001When we place drawing elements, we need to reference to an existing point. We need to place a point exactly at the end of a line, midpoint of a line, center point of a circle, et cetera. In MicroStation, we use AccuSnap to do this. You have used AccuSnap for snapping your data point to a line end before, now let’s get to know it better.

AccuSnap only active when MicroStation is asking you for a data point. It means when you need to place a drawing elements or define a data point during modify or manipulate your drawing elements. When MicroStation doesn’t ask you for data point, AccuSnap is not active.

By default, the AccuSnap mode is set to find key points. Key points are different for each object type. For example, key points for lines are the end points and mid point. Key points for circle are at its octants (every 45 deg) and its center point.

Open a new drawing, create several objects in it. Rectangle, lines, circle, arc, et cetera. Don’t worry about their size. We just use it to understand the AccuSnap behavior. We will do a drawing exercise on the next tutorial.

Try to activate a drawing tools. Let’s use Place SmartLine. Move your pointer close to those objects and see when and where the AccuSnap appear.

Overriding Snap Mode

During the design, we need to use more snap tools than just the key points. Don’t worry, MicroStation has enough snap tools you can use. You can override the default snap mode by clicking the AccuSnap button on status bar.

accusnap menu

Or if you feel more comfortable with toolbar, you can show the button bar. Click the AccuSnap button and select button bar.

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How come the toolbar only showing a few snap mode, not as many as in snap menu? Right click on the toolbar, and activate other mode you may need. Or, simply click show all. There you go; you have the entire snap mode you can use!

Active Snap and Default Snap

How do we know which snap mode is active? Active snap is shown as a pushed button. When you see the center point button is pushed, then the active snap is center point. But there is more.

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See the key point snap button? It’s also pushed, and it’s shown in gray. The grayed button means it’s the default snap mode.

Activate Place SmartLine. Try to override the snap mode to center point. Click on a circle to snap to its center. After defining a data point, the key point will be back as the active snap mode. This is very useful if you only need to change the snap mode for a point, and still want the key point as default snap mode.

On the snap menu, the default snap mode will have a blank circle on the left of it. While the active snap mode have a filled circle.

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If you need to change the default snap mode, you can do one of these:

  1. Double click on a button in snap toolbar
  2. Click the snap button on status bar, hold [shift] and click on a snap mode you want.

If you have finished playing around with the default snap mode, make sure to switch it back to key point.

Tentative Snap

Do you remember which button is the tentative snap button? Yes, press the left and right button together. I know some of you may not feel comfortable with it. I will show you how you can choose another button for at the end of this post. Let’s just use the default for now.

If you move your pointer close enough to a key point, you will see this point.

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It’s almost like the snap point, but it’s not yellow. It’s a dashed cross. If you move your pointer closer to that point, then it will change to snap point.

Let’s move your pointer until you see the tentative point. Click the tentative button. MicroStation will show you which point you are attempt to snap. The tentative point becomes a large white cross, and MicroStation highlight the object. If you see it is snapping to correct point, click data point to accept it.

This is important if you have a lot of objects in your drawing. You can review whether you are snapping to correct object or not. If it’s not, click reset (right click) to cancel it, and try it again.

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Changing the Tentative Snap Button Assignment

If you still feel uncomfortable with clicking two buttons at once, you can change the button assignment.

Access MicroStation menu: Workspace>Button Assignments… MicroStation will open a dialog box. Click Remap Buttons.

In button mappings dialog box, select the tentative button. As you can see, currently it’s invoked by left button – right button chord. Move your pointer to button definition area. Click any button you want to assign a new button.

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Many MicroStation users use mid button as tentative point. It’s a long story :) You will lose the pan functionality from the mid button. But you still can use pan scroll by pressing [shift] + data point. It’s not exactly the same with pan view. If you don’t like the pan scroll, you can change the button assignment from pan scroll to pan view. It’s your choice!

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Precise Input: Using AccuDraw

November 7, 2009 in AutoCAD, CAD, Revit

AccuDraw AccuDraw is your ultimate weapon to place drawing elements in your design files. AccuDraw can help you to place elements precisely, effectively, and efficient.

Since this tutorial is about 2D drawing, you will only see X axis and Y axis. But when you create a 3D drawing, you will see one more axis: Z axis.

You can find AccuDraw above status bar. You can tear it off and make it floats like image in this tutorial. It’s your choice.

If you’ve been playing with MicroStation for a while, you might have close AccuDraw by accident, and now wondering how you can turn it on again. I did it before :)   You can turn it on/off by clicking Toggle AccuDraw on Primary Tools bar.

Toggle AccuDraw 

Let’s get started. Create a new file, and open it.

Rectangular Coordinate

place smartline

Activate Place SmartLine by clicking the button on task navigation. Click anywhere on your drawing area. You will see AccuDraw compass on your pointer.

AccuDraw Coordinate

Try to move your mouse pointer around. You will see the X and Y value changing. Move it to the right or left of your compass. You will see the field focus is on X field. We can tell where the focus is by the highlighted field. Now move your pointer up and down near the compass. You will see the highlighted field now on Y.

The AccuDraw focus will move to field with higher value.

Now move your pointer near to X or Y axis. You will see the line is thicker and sticky to the axis. We call it indexed. Indexing will help you to draw lines parallel to X or Y axis.

indexed

Move your pointer to the right, make sure X field get the focus. Type 2 then [enter]. You will see the X is pressed down, it means that the X value is locked. The AccuDraw focus automatically switched to Y value. Now we can change the Y value. Since we want to create a horizontal line, type 0, then [enter] again. Both of you X and Y value is now locked. Click your mouse left button to define the data point. Remember, MicroStation users call the left button mouse as data point. You will see the SmartLine placed.

Now move your pointer up until Y field get the focus. Type 4 then [enter]. Move your pointer until it’s indexed to Y axis. This will change the X value to 0. No need to lock it, click data point.

You may need to zoom out to see all your drawing. Scroll your mouse, until you see what you want.

Move your pointer to the left. Pay attention that AccuDraw now have focus on Y, not X. Isn’t X axis is parallel to horizontal axis? AccuDraw compass will be rotated and follow the previous data points orientation. Don’t worry about this now. You just need to move your pointer to get the correct focus.

Move it to the left, make sure it’s indexed. Press [enter]. This will activate SmartLock. SmartLock will lock the horizontal value, which is Y value now. Move your pointer to the first data point you defined. It’s the starting point of this line. Wait until you see the yellow X symbol, and click on it. It was the snap tool. Snap tool will ensure your data point ‘snapped’ to a certain point. We have a horizontal line now.

snap

The last line, should be a vertical line to our starting point. Snap, and click on it again. There you go! You’ve just created a rectangle with size 2×4 mm.

Using AccuDraw

Polar Coordinate

During the design process, you may need to use other method to input your object. Not by X and Y value, but using distance and angle. This is known as polar coordinate. How can we use polar coordinate in MicroStation?

Easy, when AccuDraw get the focus, press [space] to change it to polar coordinate. You will see the X and Y now is changed to distance and angle.

polar-rectangular

If you need to change it back to X and Y, simply press [space] again.

AccuDraw Challenge

Here is a little challenge for you. Can you create a profile like this image below?

accudraw challenge

Tips:

As mentioned previously, AccuDraw compass follows the previous data points orientation. When you get to point (1), you need to reset the compass orientation. Press V to reset the compass to view orientation. More explanation on this later.

view rotation 

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Using Mouse and Controlling View

November 2, 2009 in AutoCAD, CAD, Revit

mouseMouse as a pointing device has become indispensable in design applications. Each applications may have unique function on mouse buttons. We will discuss about it here.

View control also have important role. You will do a lot of zooming out, zooming in, panning, and other control during the design. Let’s make you comfortable with it before we continue further.


Mouse Button Function

mouse button

  1. Left button (1) is called data point (DP) in MicroStation. When we place an object, we will need to define a data point. Either a start point, center point, next point… any kind of points! We can define it by clicking the left mouse. I guess that’s why they call it data point. We can also use data point to activate tools from task navigation and as OK/accept button.
  2. Right button (2) is called as Reset. Since MicroStation V8 XM, we can choose not to use it as reset button. But let’s just use it as reset button first. Reset is used to cancel a running process or finish using a tool.
  3. Tentative button is when you press both left (1) and right (2) button at the same time. We use this for temporary snap.
  4. X Button is your mouse mid button. It’s only available for 3 button mouse. But I guess no body using CAD still using 2 button mouse anyway :)
    • Clicking this button will activate/deactivate pan (no need to hold it).
    • Clicking it twice will activate fit view. MicroStation rescale your view to show every objects in your drawing.
    • Scrolling this button will zoom in/zoom out the drawing area.

When the first time you use Reset button, you may see this dialog. MicroStation will ask you whether you want to use right click for Reset or pop up menus. I suggest you to leave the default value: use it as reset button.

first reset confirmation

That’s the basic. We can combine the mouse button with [ctrl], [shift], and/or [alt]. You can see all this mouse function from MicroStation menu Worskpace>Button Assignment… Don’t try to change anything yet. Just take a look for what you can do with them.

other mouse function

View Control

view control

You can find view control toolbar under each view. If you are familiar with Windows applications, it shouldn’t be hard. We will discuss most used tools first, and the others later. Not all of them available for 2D drawings, so you might not see some of them.

zoom in-zoom out

The magnifier button with the + is zoom in. Clicking it will enlarge your drawing, just like you move your eyes closer to your paper to get a better look.

window area

We can use window area to magnify selected area in our drawing. You need to define two data points when you use this tool.

Fit View

Fit view will adjust the drawing view scale automatically until you can see all of your object. Alternatively, you can double click your X-button.

Pan View

Pan view is used to pan or move your drawing area. Just like you move your paper around to see another part of your drawing. Activate it, and click your data point to pan view. Alternatively, you can press your X-button.

View Previous - View Next

These are just like back and forth button. Just like undo and redo. But only for view control tools.

Hint: If you use AutoCAD, undo and redo will also affect the view control. But not in MicroStation.

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l discuss more about view control later.

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Creating Schedule from Revit Model

November 2, 2009 in AutoCAD, CAD, Revit

schedule tableCreating schedule from your Revit model basically is just the same. You can count any data from your model. It can be door/window schedule, where you can show how many doors/windows. Or it can be wall schedule, to show wall length, wall area, or wall volume. You can also showing rooms area in your design. Almost everything! In this tutorial, we will create a door schedule. You can try to create different type of schedule later. They’re all just the same steps!

If you haven’t open your Revit model, open it now.

Schedule basically is also a view. So you can find the schedule tool in View tab, create panel.

schedules

Click on schedules, you will see several tools related to creating schedules. Let’s just select schedule/quantities.

A new schedule dialog box will open. There are many categories you can select in this dialog. Because we are going to create a door schedule, select door from category. Click OK.

new schedule

On the next dialog, Revit will ask you which fields you want to include in your schedule. Add these fields:

  • Level
  • Family type
  • Count
  • Cost

You may add several more if you wanted to. You can add them by selecting them then click Add –>. You can arrange their order by clicking move up/move down.

You should already see your schedule. Before we continue tweaking this schedule, input the door cost. You can change it directly on the schedule table cells. Revit will ask you a confirmation, whether you want to change all cost for the same family and type. Click OK.

confirmation 

Now you will see your schedule like this.

 door schedule raw

Every door instance is reported here. Our schedule hasn’t group and sum the same item yet. We will fix this. Right click on your table, select view properties.

Revit will open a dialog box. Find sorting/grouping under Other category, and click edit… button right next to it.

  • Let’s sort our schedule. Select sort by Level for the first category. Check blank line option for this category.
  • And then for 2nd category, select then by family and type.
  • Uncheck Itemize every instance to deactivate it. Don’t click OK. We haven’t finished yet!

Now let’s move to formatting tab. Select count field. Then check calculate totals to activate it. Why not, we want to see total number of our doors! Do the same for cost. Our schedule should show the total cost, isn’t it?

Click OK. You should see your schedule now grouped nicely like this.

schedule final

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Working With Workspace and Design Files

October 22, 2009 in AutoCAD, CAD, Revit

microstation file When you start a Windows application, most of them will create and open a new file. But not MicroStation. MicroStation have two types of file: 2D DGN and 3D DGN. DGN is stand for design file. Not limited to DGN, you can also create a new DWG file. If you are not familiar with this file type, it’s AutoCAD file. We will discuss how you can create your own workspace, create new files; and save file and settings.


Creating Workspace

You can create multiple workspaces in MicroStation. If you need to design different drawings for different industries, you can set each of them in a separate workspace. This will avoid you to arrange tools and interface each time you need to create drawings in different industry. You can also use workspace if you have multiple users working on the same workstation.

Let’s create a new workspace that you will use for this tutorial until the end. Open your MicroStation. If you already open it, close your file. You will see MicroStation Manager.

From user option list, select new…

user setting 

MicroStation will ask you to give description for this user configuration. Type MicroStation tutorial then click OK.

create ucf

We have defined a user configuration for this tutorial. Now let’s create a new project.

From project option list, select new. Give name for this project: MicroStation Tutorial Files. And give description: Tutorial files from www.cad-notes.com. Of course, you can use your own description :)

project

MicroStation will create a folder at this location (for Windows Vista):

C:\ProgramData\Bentley\MicroStation\WorkSpace\Projects\MicroStationTutorialFiles

If you use Windows XP, you can find it in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bentley\… folder.

Preparing Tutorial Files

I have prepared all tutorial files we will use. Download them here, extract, and paste them into the folder. The zip file contain two folders: DGN and CELL. Select both of them, copy, and paste them inside MicroStationTutorialFiles folder. When Windows ask you to overwrite those two folder, click yes. Those folder is still empty anyway.

Up to this point, you have set user configuration and tutorial project. It may look complicated, but trust me, it’s not :) You will love using workspace. Try to change the users and projects that available on the list. Then change it back to our tutorial project. Very good for navigation, right?

Workspace can help you to manage your files for different users, different project. But it doesn’t mean that you have to save all files in that folder. You can still save your files to your desktop, C:\data folder, etc.

Create New File

Let’s try to create a new file. On the upper right of MicroStation Manager, you should see new file button. Click it.

create new file

Give the file name My First Drawing. Do not click save yet. Check the seed file. If it’s not showing seed2D.dgn, click browse and select it. Seed file is a drawing you can start with. Other applications call it a template file.

new file

Click save. You will see MicroStation created a new file with that name. Select it, and click open.

I know, it’s a bit different with other applications. But it’s not difficult, isn’t it?

Set your Working Unit

MicroStation works differently in handling working unit compared to AutoCAD. I feel like I have to write about this at very early stage, so if you are an AutoCAD user, you don’t get confused.

While in AutoCAD you can work with any working unit, and change it later, you can’t work that way in MicroStation. You have to define your working unit at the very beginning. Before you start drawing. You can check your working unit by accessing menu settings>design file. Click on category working units on the left.

working unit

By default, in country using metric, MicroStation will define the master unit (MU) as meters and sub unit as millimeters. If it’s not your working units, change it now. After you finish, click OK.

That’s how you create a new file. I’ll stop right here now, and we will discuss more about working units.

To Understand Working Units

Have you copied the tutorial files to our tutorial project? Click open. You should see several files if you have copied them. Find working_unit.dgn and open it. Don’t laugh at the design :) Yes, it is a very simple drawing.

See the dimension. They show measurement in mm. Open design file settings, and change the MU to meters. Close the dialog and see what happen.

after working unit changed

The dimensions are showing meters now!

Now try to activate Place Smartline.

smartline

Click anywhere on your drawing area, an look at the AccuDraw. It’s showing measurement in meters. Click several times to draw lines. Right click to finish. When MicroStation ask you to choose right click button function, just let it be default value. Click OK.

accudraw

Try to change the working unit again. Now try to place smartline again. You will see the measurement showing different scale, even you create approximately line with same length! Now it’s using the new working units. So don’t forget to check your drawing unit first!

Saving File and Settings

Close MicroStation. Did MicroStation ask you to save your design file? No. You placed some lines before, when you open the file again, you will still see the lines. Even you didn’t save the file. MicroStation automatically save it to your file, every time you create an object. It can be a good news for you, or maybe a bad news for some of you. However, I still recommend you to save your file regularly by accessing file>save or press [ctrl] + S.

But now look at the dimensions. We have change the working units to meters (or you may have changed it to something else) but it still showing millimeters! You need to save settings separately with saving file. There are a lot of settings you can save. We will get to this later. You san save the settings by accessing menu file>save settings or press [ctrl] + F.

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Creating Revit Family from 2D Drawings

October 6, 2009 in AutoCAD, CAD, Revit

toilet If you have used Revit for a while, you must love the ability to create plan, elevation, and section view easily. Of course, you have to create your model properly. And it might be annoying when you realize that you don’t have the family for a certain component. Do you need to create 3D family so you can get the plan, elevation, and section? Not always!

Here’s the situation. Many times we don’t really need to have 3D model. You might need to represent some areas in a very nice perspective view. But many times you don’t. For example, how many times you need to show toilet in perspective view? For interior design, you might need it. But I never saw anyone do it for commercial buildings. So, as long as you can report it as a family, you can show it in plan, elevation, and section, it would be ok, right?

Now let’s say we have 2D drawings of a toilet seat. Let’s try to create a family from it. You can download the file here.

Open your Revit. Create a new family. Select Metric Plumbing Fixture.rft as template. Click open.

In your project browser, double click floor plans>ref level to activate it. This is how your family would look like in a floor plan.

Open insert tab on your ribbon. Activate import CAD.

import cad

Find toilet plan.dwg. Change these options at the bottom right of the dialog box: Positioning: Auto – origin to origin. Then click open

plan

Select the toilet, then click visibility settings on your ribbon.

visibility settings

We only want this drawing appear on plan view, but we don’t want it to obstruct any other view. So turn off Front/Back and Left/Right View.

display in plan

Click OK.

Using the same method, import toilet front.dwg to your elevations>front view. And toilet side.dwg to your elevations>left view. Don’t forget to change the visibility settings for each view. All of them using origin to origin for positioning.

That’s it! Now save your family, load to your project and try it.

Try to place to your plan, try to see it in your elevations, sections. And also try to generate a schedule. It works just like 3D family, minus 3D visualization. If you don’t need 3D viz, why bother to create a complex 3D model like it? ;)

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Architectural Technologist – NIST Unveils Plan for Smart Grid Interoperability

September 30, 2009 in CAD, Vectorworks

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Taken in part from an article on .facilitiesnet.com, this article looks a pulling together all information and plans for a smart grid in the USA

September 2009

An accelerated plan for developing standards to transform the U.S. power distribution system into a secure, more efficient and environmentally friendly Smart Grid and create clean-energy jobs has been recently released.

Produced by the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the approximately 90-page document identifies about 80 initial standards that will enable the vast number of interconnected devices and systems that will make up the nationwide Smart Grid to communicate and work with each other.

These standards will support interoperability of all the various pieces of the system—ranging from large utility companies down to individual homes and electronic devices.

I have a deep seated interest in this subject, so was pleased to find this article and will follow up on it over the next few weeks to keep track of it, I think its worth at least 1/2 cpd so far,

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