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modeling a house

Exactly DrWily55, all in good fun. My wife is the best half of this relationship but the toys are a whole different thing
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Just to let you know the door in the house are completely detailed down to all parts including tumblers in the key locks.


Been working off and on with this house for over 3 years.
 
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Folks:


We must talk with Jason Turk to have a new topics categories:


ProevsOUR woman


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Jesus,is a joke Jason


I promise.I never do that again.Don`t delete me.NO000000000000000000


Cristelino
 
Yes, all in good fun. Speling I hope you didn't take my comments the wrong way. Just trying to make things clear about us Americans. I appreciate you sharing your work and experiences in that application. This thread has been a lot more interesting than I thought. Many good tips by all.


Right down to the tumblers. That is cool. I think that proves just how good this software "could" work in this type of application. The detail you could get down to. Wonder if they can do that in AutoCad. Is that a cuss word in here?


Have a good weekend all. And don't hide from the better halves too much. Don't want to get them riled up.
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Speling,


could you give us some idea on the amount of time it takes you to roughly model a building such as the ones you showed here ? (rough model, refined model) I've once started to model our own house (to have a base for renovation) but haven't taken this too far. I already had a hard time to get the real dimensions into a site plan ! As you know there is not a single house that is square, horizontal, vertical, ... all over.


Alex
 
I'm just an occasional user of Pro/ebut a couple of years ago the wife wanted to remodel our master bedroom closet. She wanted me to build a couple of cabinets and a grid or "cubby hole" type shelf unit she could place indivdual pairs of shoes into. To be sure that I maximized the space for both units, I modeled up the closet with semi-transparent walls. I then built cabinets and shelves in Pro/e and assembled the entire group. She could then easily see thatI had the same design in mind as she did. I "stick" built the cabinets with drawers just like I would have in the woodworking shop. I created a BOM and layed out cutting patterns to maximize the use of the paint grade plywood.


It all came together and looked just like it did in the model. Time wise I could have sketched it faster...but headache wise in getting the final layout to actually fit and meeting the wife's requirements was well worth the extra time. With Pro/e I also calculated the weight of the units to see how many "men and boy" it would take to move them. It was all great fun.


I've now come across an architectual program (Chief Architect) that has saved a lot of time and on a high level can do the same thing visually (it won't calc the weight)... but there was a learning curve with it.
 
My eyes and/or my brain tells me there's something "crooked" about this house, but I can't pinpoint what it is. Could it be that the facade isn't parallel to the rest of the house ? How else can I explain the slanting shadows ?


Alex
 
I agree with Speling. It seems that whenever someone shows a part they're working on, the vultures begin to circle and beg for the part. I'mknow that in a few rare cases, one can learnfrom existingpart butIMHO, one must learn by doing, not by copying or memorizing. That's what this forum is for - I believe most people would ratherexplainhow to do it than give you a part.


I too have used existing parts tounderstand a feature butfeel a bit uneasy asking for every part that's posted here on this forum - seems a bit unethical to me and I don't want to waste other people's time accessing this forum just to see another post of "pls send me a copy". Just my .02 and happy a New Year to everyone.
 
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