Sunday, December 5, 2010
Switching Categories
Switching categories wasn't covered directly, but we discussed it in the modeling tools section since it was pretty critical to achieving the second modeling option (model first, assign categories later). No one raised any major objections to this. Execution wasn't discussed in detail, but basically we talked about the category-ness parameters being removed and the new category-ness parameters being assigned. All other parameters are unchanged. There's more to discuss, but that's the skinny...
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This is a big one as some types of elements cannot be modeled in the out of the box template. An example of this is side coiling or operable walls, since they do not really need a wall to host in. I have modeled them as Generic, then swithed them to Doors. When I did this, not all the door parameters are correctly added.
ReplyDeleteA great example. We do "hidden" doors for corporate board rooms which are only doors in names. For construction purposes they are pivoting walls. These are typically "hosted" but are a pain to model as they are always custom. Being able to switch the category to "door" and keep a simple line-based wizard driven modeling tool in the project would be awesome for design purposes.
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