I’m managing a set of modular dwelling designs and all their commonplace elements in SketchUp. I’ve a case the place the consumer might wish to change the cladding on a selected home design and preserve the whole lot else the identical. This new cladding requires a taller profile for the top-hat wall battens . I’ve tried choices of modelling the wall battens as dynamic elements and as commonplace elements duplicated and ‘made distinctive’ for every size. Each strategies have their professionals and cons.
What I actually need is to in some way preserve the extrusion size of all these battens however change the profile to the taller top-hat. Is there a means to do that?
(I.e. in case you have been in Revit you’ll merely go into the profile edit mode, edit profile, save adjustments and volla, all of the battens could be taller whereas the varied lengths would stay unchanged.
Thanks prematurely.
if the objects haven’t any embedded ranges that forces them to change into distinctive, having been constructed with similar size dimension that’s latter scaled then any exchange chosen cases will replace
in different phrases have the identical scale ratio
exchange chosen from 3 elements with similar intial size.skp (47.1 KB)
easy objects, bulk swap like your purlins
for distinctive objects (or totally different scales) you should use the present method and reference the dimensions at a decrease stage then use the swap command by way of proper click on menu
this one works one after the other, greatest for classy objects (doorways. home windows…)
I feel know what you imply. Substitute element can work if I’d already had the time to create all of the attainable batten choices for that mannequin then certain I can simply swap them by way of exchange element. Or alternatively simply have full batten units in tags which might be switched off.
I assume I used to be attempting to think about a quik technique to exchange the profile to save lots of work within the first occasion.
This technique is modular so among the initiatives could possibly be fairly massive with 10’s of various little bits of top-hat all odd lengths. If afterward a brand new consumer comes and says we wish the opposite cladding on this mannequin, I hoped to discover a fast means of getting the profile change however simply seem in all these lengths.
I’ve simply opened your instance mannequin. Thanks for creating that. This works actually properly if the objects are simply otherwise scaled variations of the identical profile. In my case the 2 high hats are notable totally different extrusion profiles. Utilizing the precise profile signifies that after I minimize the mannequin at any level and create element drawings at any scale then the sections are true to scale proper tow to the width of the highest of the batter and the width of its base (which is especially related for screw placement).
By constructing extremely correct fashions it helps reveal and resolve real-world development detailing points throughout the mannequin earlier than we construct.
would Profile Builder or ValiArchitects Cladding extension be higher choices for you?
