fast workflow to create walls with MEP openings
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Re: fast workflow to create walls with MEP openings
You can also work with clones of sketches. That may be a useful approach if many of the holes have standard dimensions.
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Re: fast workflow to create walls with MEP openings
great explanation I had to do it slightly different to get it working ...Roy_043 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 19, 2021 8:38 am
- Create an Arch_Wall by clicking two points.
- Since the wall trace is a sketch with a single line there is no need to make the sketch visible.
- Create an empty "Hole" sketch.
- Click in the Map Mode field of the "hole" sketch and press the "..." button.
- Select the Wall trace in the tree.
- Add ":Edge1" to the first field in the task panel.
- Change the "Around y-axis" field to 90°.
- Press "OK".
- Edit the "Hole" sketch.
- Part_Extrude the holes.
- Arch_Remove the holes from the wall.
- Create an Arch_Wall by clicking two points.
- Since the wall trace is a sketch with a single line there is no need to make the sketch visible.
- Select the wall trace in the tree
- Create a sketch.
- in map mode pop up click deactivated
- close sketch
- Select the sketch in the tree
- Click in the Map Mode field of the "hole" sketch and press the "..." button.
- Add ":Edge1" to the first field in the task panel.
- in Attachment mode: select Normal to edge
- in Attachement Offset: Change the "Around y-axis" field to 90°.
- Press "OK".
- Edit the "Hole" sketch.
- Part_Extrude the holes.
- Arch_Remove the holes from the wall.
Re: fast workflow to create walls with MEP openings
Thank you @Roy_043 and @Bernd for this workflow
IMHO these are definitely the everyday helpers that allow you to use FreeCAD in a professional environment.
Cheers!
IMHO these are definitely the everyday helpers that allow you to use FreeCAD in a professional environment.
Cheers!
Re: fast workflow to create walls with MEP openings
For thei we would need to make a new tool out of workflow presetet. Just select a sketch and a wall, click the tool and whoom done. Would be not to difficault.
Another possibility could be to extend the existing minus tool to work with sketches, but since this workflow is based on the wall trace and not the wall this could make problems ...
@Roy_043:
Which way would you prefere if this workflow should be simplificated by some tool?
Re: fast workflow to create walls with MEP openings
There was a simple Macro
EDIT ( link to more recent post with updated Macro)
Macro to Attach Normal to Edge
I planned to incorporate that in the experimental SketchArch add-on to become one of the available attachment mode options
Re: fast workflow to create walls with MEP openings
My first thought was to look at a hole as a special kind of window. Linking holes and pipes seems like a good idea, but is probably complex. But it is hard for me to judge the current development of the Arch WB. Paullee and Carlopav are independently working on experimental features and I have not been following those.
Re: fast workflow to create walls with MEP openings
It seem currently Arch has only very basic Pipe tool at the moment
Maybe Pipe object should have a Host, and works similarly like Window has a Wall as Host and punch hole in the Wall ?
MEP should have more tools like ventilation duct, cable tray etc. ?
Maybe Pipe object should have a Host, and works similarly like Window has a Wall as Host and punch hole in the Wall ?
MEP should have more tools like ventilation duct, cable tray etc. ?