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Although 3D animations offer a number of benefits, they are time-consuming, thus costly; and require expert knowledge to achieve results required. With the use of EON FastView, the non-animation expert can achieve interactive walkthroughs and design reviews within minutes, saving time and cost and offering a more flexible design tool due to its interactive nature. Once the design alternatives are ready to be reviewed or presented, the 3D content can be shared over the Internet or incorporated in a multimedia presentation using pre-designed templates.
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This document provides a summary of behaviors for the wall object in current ArchiCAD and Constructor, GraphiSoft.
The Appendix is quoted directly from the help file in Constructor. It provides detail information of a wall object including its constructions and behaviors.
Five tasks are to be investigated in this report, including:
1) Is a wall segment delimited to have a single floor plane?
2) Is a wall also delimited to a single roof plane?
3) Can a wall have non-horizontal changes in construction (through its cross-section)?
4) Does the wall object support internal framing layout?
5) Can a wall be a lofted surface, with a bottom curve and top (or intermediate curve) that is lofted between?
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Printing to a PDF file:
Set up your line weights first. I like to use hairlines for the on screen display and for most quick linework for printing (very thin lines). Line thicknesses are established in the pens and colours dialog box. You can select a pen colour, and adjust the thickness for printing or for on-screen display. There is another dialog box for determining whether or not you will see hairlines on screen or true line thicknesses. I just use hairlines on screen: easier for accuracy in making things and easier on my eyes.
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A building’s architectural design and its physical structure are closely interrelated: on the one hand, the architectural design of the building defines the structure; on the other hand, the structural design of a building reflects the overall architectural design. As structure became a visual and aesthetic part of the design in modern architecture, structures must be as light as possible while maintaining complete integrity. Also, the structure must be optimized for performance and price.
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TurnTool is a real time 3D graphics solution targeted at the growing market for 3D on the Internet. Integrate your 3D visualizations in web pages and other applications for interactive viewing and manipulation – responding to user input from mouse and keyboard. Knock your audience off their feet in amazement! The TurnToolBox for ArchiCAD is a plugin for Graphisoft’s architectural application ArchiCAD.. It makes it very easy to create breathtaking interactive 3D visualizations. Note that the TurnToolbox plugins exists for other 3D applications as well.
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The site was in a very appealing location, within one of the housing hotspots of the Midlands. The private location in a leafy green setting was perfect for a high quality development of four 2.5 storey 2500sqft detached houses. However, our design proposal would be a backland development, additional houses built within an already built up area, on the edge of Sutton Park. “We were confident that we could design a scheme that would give maximum site coverage whilst retaining the leafy setting.
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The Floor Suite system includes a number of custom made objects for laying out and scheduling mid-floor framing and an ArchiCAD Add-On Tool which enables the user to operate easier with the objects, create schedules and export these data into an XMLfile.
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Tutorial title: Service Modeling with SoaML Abstract: SoaML (Service oriented Architecture Modeling Language) is a new OMG standard for Service Modeling adopted in December 2009, with both a UML profile and a metamodel for modelling of services. This tutorial introduces the concepts and practical use of SoaML with corresponding tool and methodology support. The tutorial is provided in two parts. Part I provides an introduction to SoaML for Service Modeling and Service oriented architectures and Part II shows how SoaML can be used and extended in a wider context including a link to business modelling with BPMN 2.0, modelling of service variability, and support for semantic web services and agent modelling. It is also shown how SoaML can form a foundation for future enhancements, like support for P2P/Grid/Cloud etc. that can be build upon the SoaML metamodel and UML profile. The SoaML standard has been developed with support from the
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ArchiCAD 9 arrived with what at first I thought were minor improvements. But they add up to quite a lot, especially for 3D work, visualization, and working on a laptop with a cramped screen (figure 1). The latter situation may occur often now that ArchiCAD supports terminal server technology that makes it possible to work over the Internet from a remote location.
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About this guide
This guide describes how to set up and use your new NEC C Series monitor.
Who should use this guide?
We’ve written this guide for anyone who wants to learn about using the NEC C Series monitor.
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