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ARCHITECTURAL USE?

ed_long
ed_long Member Posts: 5 PRO
edited May 2015 in Community Support
I do have some products I need to design and model but I am also a pool builder and am wondering if there is any reason this cannot be used for architectural/pool/landscape type work or if anyone is here that is doing that. I only discovered onshape last night.
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  • andrew_troup
    andrew_troup Member, Mentor Posts: 1,585 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    (In haste): try this, which cuts out the trimming of circles and goes straight for the jugular: lay out the rough profile using a succession of 3 point arcs, snapping the endpoints together. Now pick pairs of adjacent arcs (window selection is a speedup here) and apply tangency constraints.
    Et voila.

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  • 3dcad
    3dcad Member, OS Professional, Mentor Posts: 2,482 PRO
    Just use it as you wish.. the only problem might be the collaboration with architects running archicad.

    I have used this type of software for my house, patio, factory premises, layout design, furniture, office, kitchen, bathroom, .. etc
    You will get nice section views easily to build swimming pools and 2D drawings should be on their way..
    //rami
  • pete_yodis
    pete_yodis OS Professional, Mentor Posts: 666 ✭✭✭
    3dcad said:
    Just use it as you wish.. the only problem might be the collaboration with architects running archicad.

    I have used this type of software for my house, patio, factory premises, layout design, furniture, office, kitchen, bathroom, .. etc
    You will get nice section views easily to build swimming pools and 2D drawings should be on their way..
    I tend to think a MCAD package has really fleshed out it's geometry creation tools when it could be used to model something like a house.  It would need something like structural frameworks (think weldement functionality in SolidWorks speak), 3D sketching, Wiring/harnessing, Piping, maybe some CFD for heating and air conditioning analysis.  Not like I would be a total geek and model my house I would like to build - or anything... :D  Here's to using Onshape in the future to model exactly this.
  • ed_long
    ed_long Member Posts: 5 PRO
    I usually draw freeform pools using a polyline (arc) in CAD. Or will put out say 3 circles and connect them with reverse radius's using fillet/4' or 6' radius command. I cannot seem to get 3 circles merged or get the fillet tool to tie them together with a reverse radius. Picture a 3 part peanut. I also do not see an opportunity to complete my circles with a numeric input for diameter or radius or see any dynamic input info telling me how far I am dragging it out. I will watch the tutorials more, I really want to harness this software.
  • andrew_troup
    andrew_troup Member, Mentor Posts: 1,585 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Answer ✓
    (In haste): try this, which cuts out the trimming of circles and goes straight for the jugular: lay out the rough profile using a succession of 3 point arcs, snapping the endpoints together. Now pick pairs of adjacent arcs (window selection is a speedup here) and apply tangency constraints.
    Et voila.
  • ed_long
    ed_long Member Posts: 5 PRO
    let me give that a try. Thank You!
  • 3dcad
    3dcad Member, OS Professional, Mentor Posts: 2,482 PRO
    Has anyone succeeded moving model from archicad to sw / inventor / geomagic / onshape / any mcad ?

    I would really need this function right now, they seem to have few export formats; not sure if any of them helps:
    http://helpcenter.graphisoft.com/technotes/setup/software-technologies/file-formats-in-archicad/
    //rami

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