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Re: Splitting sloping walls?
hansmex, >The shortcut involves the keyboard of a calculator not always: i put a new wall (90 degrees off) to the wanted splitpoint, make this "helpwall" big as needed and store the wanted height for this splitpoint that way. it's not funny but it works.
too bad anyway, i was hoping to get an aswer like "hold down ALT+SHIFT then click mouse button into wall" :-)
It's not an architectural program, i know... Not YET ;-) macfrog
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macfrog,
That's an ingenious but simple workaround.
I spent the last (half) hour reading on all kinds of geometry websites, trying to figure out if I could make a simple spreadsheet model that would allow inputting basic data, and resulted in giving the correct measures for the split wall.
Unfortunately this is far beyond my mathematical insight. Maybe, after all, I should have paid more attention during high school...
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Applying Intercept theorem (théorème de Thalès en français) between the walls length on the floor and their height should help you.
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Thank you Hans for the drawing. I was sure you were able to understand the first theorem I learnt at school!
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Hello,
i just want to let you see the reason for this thread:
keep in mind: for changing a wall's texture of a given room, i have to split walls on room limits. so, moving a wall forces me to split the aligning wall (again, and again)... so far for the calculating method, hans
screenshot below:
it's the upper level of a house with 10+ sloping walls, almost NEVER splitted in the middle. as you can see, the roof is missing macfrog
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I like your model and can think about the hard work you have done to complete it but where is the problem???
is it solved already or are you trying to say that the things the experts said dint work or are you showing us the result after applying the solutions?
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hi wrosun,
the "problem" was already solved before i started this thread. in first msg i wrote "i got a workaround" and i was asking for something easier i might have overseen. i posted the picture just to let anybody see i donot ask for no reason; especially hans is very helpfull and spend some night with other peoples problems. oh, and thanks for liking my model :)
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...intercept the meaning of the theorem...
Thanks Hans for your theorem interception, very useful. I think you mention something about doing the math in your much used roof guide. So as a hint, I took the liberty of putting a pointer to various calculations in SourceForge, feature-requests 684.
Maybe it is worth making a list of the most useful calculations for all of us who where not subjected to French maths in school? For instance, how to calculate the values indicated here, and probably a few more that I did not think of: ok
Note that (heightAtEnd - heightAtStart) / bothWallsLength is a factor that could reapply elsewhere on walls with the same slope. This factor is also equal to tangent of 21.8°. Thus, if you know the 21.8° angle of the slope, you can also use:
intermediateWallHeight = heightAtStart + distanceFromStart x tan(slopeAngle)
If you want to calculate that angle, just reverse the formula:
You might also wonder how to compute the 4.85 roof length. This time, it's Pythagorean theorem that will give you the answer because angles between walls and the floor are right:
4.85² = 1.8² + 4.5² = (3.4 - 1.6)² + 4.5²
If you replace 1.6 by heightAtStart, 3.4 by heightAtEnd and 4.5 by distanceBetweenStartAndEnd, you get:
Hope this will help
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