[Feature] Drawing Walls = Drawing Rooms Automatically

[paullee]

A mock-up / proof-of-concept :
(SketchArch Add-on)

Now drawing Wall = drawing Space. When Walls added (Base on Sketch) enclosed a space, it could be automatically detected.

Inspired by discussion of concept of TAD about drawing Space (vs drawing Walls) and and technology available in Topologic (based on OpenCascade as FreeCAD).


Workflow :-
- Turn on Detect Room attribute in ArchWall
- Rooms (regions) enclosed by Walls defined in a Sketch are detected and shown as Faces

Further Usages :-
- Automatic room area calculation and dimensioning
- Automatic room volume calculation
- Repeating modelling for ArchSpace could be avoided
- Specification (e.g. of construction, material, finishes) for each room surface
(Though a wall might have been modelled to span a few rooms)
- The feature enable automatic creation of ComplexCell for spatial analysis and manipulation in Topologic

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[cad1234]

Very helpful !!

[bitacovir]

Interesting. Now this rooms can be smart objects? Entities to:
- storage more properties
- assigning new properties through category or classification system (not manually)
- create a system of properties linked with regulations. This way, if a room does not match with some conditions (minimum air volume, minimum height of ceiling, minimum area of windows) a warning is shown.

[paullee]

Interesting. Now this rooms can be smart objects? Entities to:
- storage more properties
- assigning new properties through category or classification system (not manually)
- create a system of properties linked with regulations. This way, if a room does not match with some conditions (minimum air volume, minimum height of ceiling, minimum area of windows) a warning is shown.

Yes similar ideas, code.regulation compliance was one .I wanted to do long time ago - but this region / city specific probably not beneficial to many people

And expect some of these goals be assisted with Topologic ... far from able to use that

[carlopav]

Bravo!!

[paullee]

Maybe also automatically creation of floor slab and roof / top slab?

[sww1235]

Yes please! This looks amazing!

A couple of questions:

can you lock certain spaces, so if they are manually split and combined after being auto detected, the manual changes won't be erased when more walls are added?

How are space boundaries on floor and ceiling found? Or is this only 2d for now?

[paullee]

can you lock certain spaces, so if they are manually split and combined after being auto detected, the manual changes won't be erased when more walls are added?

How are space boundaries on floor and ceiling found? Or is this only 2d for now?

Thanks.

It is one of the intention to manually assign the 'boundaries' or a region - e.g. a region containing 4 rooms (and 1 corridor space) - may be you can add an issue to avoid it being forgotten.

Currently it is a proof-of-concept, with a 2D place cut by the 3D Wall solids.

[ragohix769]

Outstanding idea!

[ABeton]

This is a very interesting idea, good job!!

Would it be possible to define things like wall finishes or floor finishes for these enclosed regions by using multimaterials? I have been drawing interior wall finishes by hand mostly, but with this perhaps each region could automatically create a multilayer wall inside it(thermoinsulation, plaster etc.). What do you think about this?