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- For drawing a hip roof select the Hip Roof icon
and draw the garret polygon that includes the roof, click on the vertices and close with the Return or Space bar.
The internal part of the roof is created automatically.
#58
The Quesa 3D interactive view doesn't work. I close Domus, switch off the computer, switch on again, but I notice that instead of the "Quesa interactive" line being ticked, the line below it is ticked: Quesa OpenLG I click on Quesa interactive, but nothing happens: the image remains fixed and the modifications are not visible.
Interactive Renderer and Quesa Open GL are very similar, because are both based on the Open GL accelerator of the graphic card.
Quesa Open GL supports cast shadows too, so it has more features. So, if the problem is that changing from Quesa Open GL to Quesa Interactive the rendering doesn't change, it's normal. If the problem is that the rendering doesn't change when you add something to the project, check the 3D parameters window, the Interactive option must be activated.
#59
I have some lines on my drawing that I just can't cancel. Even if I choose "select all", it's impossible to select them.
How can I eliminate these lines?
Follow the steps below:
- Select, pressing the Command key, the part of the drawing that is correct.
- Cut it with the Cut command from the Edit menu or with Command-X.
- Delete the Layer with Clear Layer command from the Layers menu.
- Press Command-V or chose Paste from the Edit menu to paste in what you cut.
#60
I don't know what key I hit by mistake, but suddenly all copies take place "on the spot", without the usual 45° shift of the duplicated image.
How can I get this shift back?
You have to enable the duplication with offset.
Choose Process Offset from the Edit menu or press the F key. The F key is a short cut to enable or disable the offset operations.
#61
I want to add my own photos to the "material" function - to make some walls with glass brick that I need for my project.
When one uses bricks to make a wall, they have no visible join.
What glass block module (how many blocks) should be used, so that the repetition is not visible?
There isn't a general rule. If you are working on a new building, probably a very simple block gives the better result. If you are working on an old masonry building, a large block is necessary to better render the variations of the old wall.
#62
How to configure the photo to have it in scale when used?
I have a similar problem with a vehicle that I managed to download - can't get it to scale...so it's unusable!
You can select it and rescale with the Deformation command from the Process menu.
#63
If I make the white background transparent, part of the white elements of construction also become transparent...and you can see cloudy bits through certain parts of the building.
Can this be avoided?
In this case place a little white rectangle between the background and the rendered image.
#64
How to insert a rendering in a photo?
The first step towards inserting a rendering in a picture is to place the Domus.Cad camera in the same position as the real life camera.
Place the observed point in Domus.Cad on the point corresponding to the center of the photo.
Set the camera angle parameter the same as the lens of the camera.
Set the Domus.Cad light direction parallel to the direction of the light in the picture. The sun light generation tool can help you.
Set the 3D view background color to white.
After that you should obtain a 3D view that is consistent with the photo perspective.
Save the image on a free layer.
Select the image and with the PictRot module of the Plug In menu change the image to make the white color transparent.
Select the image and group it in an object. Place the object on the top of the photo.
Resize the object, with the mouse, so that it is perfectly superimposed on the photo.
#65
How to use the scissors?
Some general principles regarding the Scissors tool:
- The Scissor applies only to the current element. For example, if the current active element is Segments, the scissors only cut segments.
- You don't have to select anything. The command is applied to all elements in the current layer and the current type, whether they are selected or not.
- You have to cut the whole element, not just a part of it. For example, if you have a polygon, you can't cut just one side, you must cut the whole polygon.
#66
Problems in importing blocks from http://cben.net
Click on the link, a text window with strange characters appears. Save the Windows with the Save as command.
You should have a saved file similar to xxxx.dwg.txt, delete the ,txt extension so you have .dwg extension only. After that you can import the file in Domus.Cad.
#67
How to use specular color and coefficient?
All materials have a diffuse color and a specular color, which can be different. If so, the color of the material changes depending on the position of the light.
The specular coefficient changes the aspect of the material, giving it a more plastic or metallic appearance. With RayShade an high specular coefficient generates a mirror effect.
#68
How to add a texture to the texture list?
In your Domus,Cad folder you should have a DOMUS-Cad Texture folder. On Windows the Texture folder is inside the Domus.Cad Data folder, on Macintosh there is an alias on the Domus.Cad folder
Any image added to this folder will be accessible via the internal texture menu in the Materials Windows of Domus.Cad.
If , on a Mac, the texture folder alias doesn't work, you can access the Texture folder directly inside the Domus.Cad Package.
To do that, follow the steps below:
- Ctrl click on the Domus.Cad icon and on the pop up menu choose the Show Package content command
- Open the Content folder
- Open the MacOs folder
- Open Domus-Cad Data folder
- Open the Domus-Cad Texture folder
- Drag your Texture to the Domus-Cad Textures folder
#69
How can I make a parapet wall for the circular ramp of a car park?
You can follow 2 methods.
1 - Use the Superrot command. Draw the section of the wall as a polygon at the right distance from the Y-axis, select it and choose the command Superrot. Insert the parameters, including the difference in height between the start and end of the ramp.
2 - Use the angular offset in the Offset parameters. Draw a little wall with the right starting height at both ends. In the offset parameters, input an angular offset and Z offset. Duplicate the wall several times to complete the parapet wall.
#70
Is it possible to paste a 3D perspective onto a photo of landscape, in order to show the project's integration into its environment?
There are several interesting dxf and dwg models that you can import in Domus.Cad.
To superimpose a Domus.Cad rendering onto a photo in Domus.Cad follow the steps below:
- Import the photo in Domus.Cad
- Generate the rendering with a white background
- Save the rendering to a free layer
- Select the rendering image and choose the PictRot command from the Modules menu
- Set 0 rotation, million of colors, 72 dpi and white transparent. Confirm
- Now you can move the rendering onto the photo because the background is transparent.
#71
Wrong scale in importing dxf-dwg files
Regarding the wrong scale in importing DWG and DXF file, it depends usually on a wrong unit of measurement.
Inside AutoCAD there isn't a unit of measure like in Domus.Cad, but a unit of design. In printing, the user specifies the length of the unit of design, so the unit of measurement corresponding to the unit of design isn't inside the DWG file, but in the designer's head.
In importing a file, Domus.Cad asks for the unit of measurement and if you choose a wrong unit of measurement, the resulting drawing is wrong too.
If the designer used meters and you import the file with centimeters, each meter is interpreted as a centimeter and the drawing is 100 times smaller. In this case, the text seems very big, but it is because it isn't possible to reduce the text to less than 1 point, so a 1 point text in a 100 times reduced design seems very big.
#72
How to export a 2D drawing
To export a 2D drawing there are 2 methods.
The first is the Layers->Export Active Layer -> in DXF/DWG Format. This command exports the current active layer only.
The second is the File->Export->Page in DXF/DWG format. This command exports the content of the current drawing table. Before using this command you have to create a drawing table with the View->Paging procedure.
It isn't possible to export all the Domus.Cad project, because the internal organization of Domus.Cad is different from AutoCad. In Domus.Cad you have a project with several different things on the same file. Several drawing tables can correspond to this project.
#73
The 3D DXF/DWG file shows all the lines that should be hidden in AutoCad™
Domus.Cad exports the model as 3D polylines, facets and meshes. The polylines work fine with the most part of the modeling software, with the exclusion of AutoCAD™ and 3D Studio™. Use facets and meshes to solve the problem
#74
I am doing the tutorial. When I click Generated Technical view, the work window becomes empty. Nothing is visible.
Did you click on the icon on the 3D palette or did you choose the Process->Technical Views -> Section Elevation?
The first time that you want to generate a technical 3D view, use the menu command and define the section plane.
If the section plane is outside the drawing, note that the direction of the section plane looks towards the drawing.
If the window appears white after generation, maybe the drawing is outside the window frame. Chose Process ->Autoscale or double click on the little home icon on the bottom left corner of the main window to fit the window with the drawing.
#75
How to make doors transparent.
To make the doors and windows completely transparent chose View -> General view Parameters and click on Transparent door/window opening.
If you want windows and doors to be partially transparent, you must define a partially transparent material and apply this material to the elements.
#76
I don't understand how the memory fills up so fast. I searched all over for a virus, without success. But I did find that Domus has a file called Back Up, which I emptied, immediately gaining 2 GB! I thought that, like Word or Excel, it was the actual document you were working on that got saved, without making a separate copy every time.
Isn't it possible to save docs without making copies?
Every time you save your work Domus.Cad makes a backup copy in the BackUp folder. In this way you can recover an old version in case of problems.
You can control the number of copies inside Domus.Cad Preferences dialog.
#77
Lately I have difficulty with putting furniture in my drawings. When I choose a piece of furniture, it appears in the bottom left of my screen in a "fade" Grey color. I then move it to the place I want it, but once I click on it, it disappears. The same happens with windows also.
You have to press the space bar or the Return key to fix a library object on the drawing.
When you import the object you can see it grayed in the bottom left corner of the window. Drag it where you want and press the space bar or the return key.
By dragging with the mouse and pressing again the Return key, you can insert several copies of the same object.
#78
I have downloaded Domus CAD 15 for my Mac Powerbook. It's a great package and I've made quick progress in building a small residential model with two floors, a few walls and doors; doesn't have a roof yet.
But today the 3D View stopped working. It was working yesterday just fine as I added more details and now it won't display anything. The 3D window appears and the plan view reacts if the 3D buttons are clicked, e.g., TOP VIEW, ROGHT VIEW, etc. But no image.
Please give me any hints on what to check or point me to a forum or chat group of Domus users who might help.
When you click on one of the 3D view buttons (top, left, right etc), Domus.Cad calculates an auto-scale to fit the 3D view with the 3D model.
If the 3D view appears empty, it means that, for some reasons, Domus.Cad isn't able to calculate the right 3D scale.
Usually this happens when there are some objects or elements very far from the main parte of your model.
Another reason may be that your model isn't inside the minimum and maximum distance.
Double click on the camera button and set the minimum and maximum distance to appropriated values.
The minimum and maximum distances are represented on the plan as 2 lines perpendicular to the camera-point of interest direction. You can move these lines picking and dragging them with the mouse while the 3D view changes at the same time according to your movement. If you cut the drawing with these lines, the model is sectioned in real time.
I suggest the following steps:
- Click the Camera button
- Execute an Autoscale command from the process menu or double click on the Home icon on the left-bottom palette. You should see on the screen all your drawing, the camera, the observed points and the minimum distance line (the maximum distance line can be far).
- Move the camera, the point of interest, the sectioning minimum and maximum lines.
- If the 3D view is empty, control the z value of the camera and point of interest.
- Eventually control the View -> General view parameters, if the layers containing your model are disabled it isn't represented on the rendered and technical 3D views.
#79
The Getting Started Example begins a roof with two rectangles, which are assigned a material but appear semi-transparent in the documentation. I cannot find a way to change the transparency of rectangles; they are not included in the PARAMETERS menu with other elements.
Do you have patterned or hatched rectangles in plan?
If this is your case, just assign a "No Fill" to the rectangle. You can do it before drawing the rectangles of after.
Before: select the rectangle icon and the pen icon. Click on the Fill tool on the attributes palette and choose No Fill.
The No Fill option is assigned to all the rectangles, circles, polygons and curves drawn after the choose.
After: select the rectangle icon and the arrow icon. Select the rectangle, Click on the Fill tool on the attributes palette and choose No Fill. The fill of the rectangle is removed and it appears transparent.
#80
The User Guide example creates roof slabs, adds upper-level wall segments and then cuts each wall segment to fit under the slope of the roof. Roof design and modification is critical for me; my current project involves re-designing some roof sections on an existing home to accommodate architecture changes to the interior.
Basically there are 2 ways to design roofs: as a serie of sloped slabs or as a complex hip roof.
There are 2 procedures to adapt the top or the bottom part of the walls to the roofs. This procedures work on a single slab-roof, so if a wall is under 2 different slabs, it is necessary to cut it with the scissors tool and adjust each part to the corresponding slab-roof.
You can modify the angle of the roofs and re-adjust the bottom or top parts of the walls in any moment.
The height and reference height of the extremes of the walls can be modified also with the corresponding icons on the 3D Palette.
#81
I have imported a dwg of a building plan which I have drawn up on vectorworks. The drawing is fine except I can not get it ungrouped or separated so that I can work with the lines and shapes which I have already created. I simply want to use the 2D plan which I have already drawn in vectorworks and make it into a 3D building in Domus so I can create walk throughs of the building and some nice 3D images, similar to those on your website.
In Domus.Cad there are 2 ways to import a dwg file: from the File menu, with the Import DWG/Dxf file command, and from the Layers menu, from the Import DW/DXF on the Active layer command.
The first command imports a DWG file maintaining the original structures of layers, names, colors etc. To modify the elements you have to go on the layer containing them.
The second command imports a dwg file in a single layer and it is the right command if you want to import a file inside another project, maintaining the structure and organization of the project.
If the DWG file contains DWG blocks, they are imported as Domus.Cad objects, so the elements inside are grouped in an object, To edit the element inside an object, select it and execute the Edit->Separate Object command or the correspondent button on the palette #2.
#82
Working with Domus I could not enter "Coordinates Palettes", designing the walls, I could not put the distance I need between two of then, for example, or to fix the length of each one.
You can use Domus.Cad entering coordinates, distances and angles in several ways.
You have to click in one of the button of the coordinates palette, usually in the bottom of the screen.
Clicking on the Rel button you have the following window
Where you can move or draw using exact measures.
The same for the Dist - Ang button
If you select and element and click in one of the button above you access the Edit Window. In the case of a selected segment it is as the figure below
Where you can edit the element measure, position and angle in several ways.
83#
How to make a grid for the concrete structure in basement, with all the columns? I have looked and read all but I could not find the key.
You can use "walls" for basement, columns and beams. The wall tool is a general tool and the Slab/Floor tool is more general of what the word means.
You can create a basement using a slab-floor tool.
I'm not sure if it is what you are speaking about, but attached there is a little example of what I mean.
The result is
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