AutoCad :: Creating A 3D School Map
Dec 8, 2011
For my school project, I've been assigned to update the school maps. I use AutoCAD 2012, but I also have Revit and Inventor on my school computer. The problem that I am having is that the maps I were given are in 2D (they're basically blueprints of each floor). My teacher wants me to make it more modern-looking, meaning he wants me to be able to show depth and make the map more 3D. If you're not sure what I mean, he wants me to make it look something like this [URL]....... except that it would be for one school building, and the room numbers and names have to be visible for all three floors.
Having learned only basic knowledge of CAD and Revit, I am stuck on how to create the "layered" school map. Is there any way to do it on CAD, or should I use another program? Can I use the current 2D blueprints, or do I need to create a new set of diagrams? (the 2D blueprints look like [URL].......
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May 17, 2013
I played around with the 2010 Block Editor, it must be 5 times more efficient that where it is in 12. Using 2014 like the new Block Editor?
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Dec 14, 2011
Is there a way to use iLogic to replicate the old-school method of replacing drawing references? (ie, where you'd temporarily rename the originally referenced file, open the drawing, and then point it to the new file after Inventor says it can't find the original)
Longer version:
I have an iLogic configurator that manipulates skeletal models, copies them out as new files, and swaps them into template drawings. The original skeletal model can be configured in several different ways (different features, surfaces, etc), so I have several template drawings set up for each model depending on the configuration.
The problem that I'm encountering involves the order in which the drawing is loaded and then has its references replaced. When first opened, the drawing loads the original skeletal model which doesn't have all the geometry of the "new" model for which the particular template drawing was intended. This makes most of my section and detail view constraints go belly-up. After subsequently replacing the model references with the "new" model with the correct geometry, the section and detail view constraints fail to resolve themselves, and my once-perfect detail drawing is ruined.
If I instead force the drawing to open with the new model from the git-go (via the workaround discussed above), everything loads perfectly. However, I haven't yet found a way to handle this automatically with iLogic.
FWIW, I am currently using the following code in a subroutine:
DESTINATIONDOC=ThisApplication.DOCUMENTS.Open(TemplateDrawing, False)
DESTINATIONDOC.SAVEAS(filePath&Left(PN,6)&".idw", False)
DimSTRNEWREFNAMEAsString
DimOREFFILEAsFILEDESCRIPTOR
[Code]....
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Oct 19, 2005
Anyone no of a good plug-in or program that would allow a simple way of making this?
Since our studio has gone completey digital i would like to find a way of making these school composites digitaly?
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I am not talking about the fancy 3-d apps that create these awesome metallic-loking 3 -d images,like this:II'm talking about linear art, flat and 2-d, like the old school comic books like Superman, Wonder Woman and Spider-Woman. That's what I am looking to do:I know there was some plug in that let you do them just like that, (after you typed in the name, you selected the letters and with some app, you manipulated them to look like old-school comic book lettering...)( I remember creating them old-school titles myself) with no fancy gradations, shines or bevels, it was just the lettering, and the effect of the 3dish thing...anyone knows what the plug in is, or if anything like that can be done with either Illustrator Cs4 or Photoshop Cs4?This is an example of what I did myself:But that was years ago when I had Illustrator 10, and after a long time with no acces to the net or computers, I'm back in the swing of things, but I can't remember the name of the program or plug in that allowed you to do those imges!
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I just put up a video page for my school. It's not really targeted at the public yet. It's main for our school and church - Homework, assignments, previews, etc. But it's been fun learning with it and expiramenting. I did it all my self too, even took the pictures in the gallery (which needs expanding).
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way to do this? Layers? Masks?
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I have got a job to take school pictures where I will offer 3 portrait shots and 2 class shots for selection and I am looking for an easy way to add contact thumbnails onto a sheet that also contains a price list and order form as well as other details etc.
I have around 350 of these to do and have made up a sheet that contains all the other details as a PDF and as a In Design Master sheet and as a jpg file.
I am predominately a photographer and know little InDesign except what I have taught myself but not much. How to automate it and save me a whole load of time?
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I'm trying to draw an object in 3D view, but I'm having trouble creating a circle in the Z direction. I know how to make circles on the X-Y plane but I can't figure out how to make one in the Z direction!
I'm making I attached a picture so you can see what the object looks like, and more or less the "3D circle"! I also attached the actual AutoCAD file that I'm working on. (The dimensions are 1:10)
I'm using AutoCAD version 2012.
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(visual studio 2010 c# and AutoCAD 2010 )
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using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Interop;
using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Interop.Common;
AcadApplication gbl_app = null;
[Code]...
and I get the following error
System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80010001): Error al crear una instancia del componente COM con CLSID {6D7AE628-FF41-4CD3-91DD-34825BB1A251} desde IClassFactory debido al siguiente error: 80010001.
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Jan 6, 2014
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Feb 17, 2012
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In ACAD2008LT you could create a new layer while in a property filter view (in the Layer Properties Manager) and could type in the new layer name from that filtered view. If, after entering the new layer name, it matched the current property filter, it would remain in view, if it did not, it would automatically be moved to the appropriate filter or to the 'All Layers' view. That seems very logical.
In ACAD2012, as soon as I create a new layer while in a property filter view, the default layer name 'layer' does not match the filter parameters (say '*-Dim') and the new layer immediately moves to 'All Layers' before a new name can be entered. I have to then switch filter views back to 'All Layers' and find the new layer now named 'layer' and rename it there, trying to match the desired property filter name.
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Mar 19, 2013
PublicSharedSub CreateTextStyle(ByVal TextStyleName AsString, ByVal FontFileName AsString, ByVal OblAng AsDouble)
Dim DataB AsDatabase = Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument.Database
Dim MyTransaction AsTransaction = DataB.TransactionManager.StartTransaction()
Try
Dim MyBlockTable AsBlockTable = MyTransaction.GetObject(DataB.BlockTableId, OpenMode.ForRead)
Dim MyBlockTableRecord AsBlockTableRecord = MyTransaction.GetObject(MyBlockTable(BlockTableRecord.ModelSpace), OpenMode.ForWrite)
Dim MyTextStyleTable AsTextStyleTable = MyTransaction.GetObject(DataB.TextStyleTableId, OpenMode.ForRead)
[code]....
and i call it from sub:
Call CreateTextStyle("330", "romans.shx", DTR(330))
but error comes up
at Autodesk.AutoCAD.DatabaseServices.Transaction.GetObject(ObjectId id, OpenMode mode, Boolean openErased, Boolean forceOpenOnLockedLayer)
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^C^Cnetload "C://Program Files//my stuff//myProgram.dll” adp
(adp will lanch the program)
I get the following:
netload Assembly file name: "C://Program
Files//mystuff//myProgram.dll” adp
Cannot load assembly. Error details:
System.ArgumentException: Illegal characters in path.
at System.IO.Path.CheckInvalidPathChars(String path)
at System.IO.Path.Combine(String path1, String path2)
at ?A0xe1e1f031.NormalizeLoadFilename(String fname)
at Autodesk.AutoCAD.Runtime.ExtensionLoader.Load(String fileName)
at loadmgd()
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