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| Posted by okh at Mar 3, 2017, 2:55:24 PM |
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Re: Problem with wall thikness and room surfaces. okh I did not complain about the lack of 3D Sorry if I gave that impression. Not the intention and I never thought you did. My comments were of a general nature as a follow-up to the ensuing discussion. As for inside-outside-middle measurements you will find several discussions about this in the forum. For inside measurements one solution is mentioned in Puybaret's reply, just draw the room first and double-click with wall-tool to create walls with correct inside measurements. The Advanced Editing Plugin can be useful to get the room right, but also for connecting walls, moving points etc. Still, doing the calculation between inside/outside/middle is pretty straightforward when you work with straight angles. For instance that in a rectangular house the outside length is the middle length + wall thickness and so forth. Some calculation when drawing is hard to avoid, in any software. Btw, some can find it helpful starting with a solitary first wall in the upper left corner modified to accurate co-ordinates and dimensions and later use Wall-tool-ENTER to insert accurate values (e.g. inside measurement + wall thickness) helps getting subsequent walls accurate. Double clicking inside and outside walls with the Create Dimensions tool occasionally also helps double checking that everything is correct. So while your point is understandable, it may not be something you miss after while. As mentioned, the strength of SH3D is indeed that it only takes minutes to learn the basics. Getting to use it efficiently with shortcuts, key-combinations, plugins and other features, well, in my case that took a while longer. Do not know which video you watched, but the many YouTube SH3D instruction videos vary quite a bit in quality. There are some worth watching, but some of them seem to miss key SH3D features. Which software is better is of course a matter of personal taste. Blender and Sketchup are very different from SH3D, but SH3D is arguably faster and easier for room planning when using a combination of mouse and keyboard. The commercial (architectural) packages are pretty expensive and will be a total overkill for many. ok |
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