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sloping floors (and roofs...)
Just wondering if I can draw a room with a sloping floor, so that say one side is at elevation zero and the other side at about 4ft. I have a design for a house with no steps, uses ramps to get between split-level floors, thus being suitable for wheelchair users. I'd quite like to model it in 3D to see how it looks :)
roofs are a similar problem - having realised that rooms have ceilings even though you can't see them in aerial view, I can get my head round that. creating sloping roofs is not so obvious so I hope this will happen in a later version!
I did look at the tutorial which says to use "plan > edit room points" but I don't see that option in the plan menu. Ah well I only just downloaded and started to play, maybe doing the octagonal house as a first project was ambitious :)
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Re: sloping floors (and roofs...)
Austin,
If you look here, you will find several tutorials. I suggest you start with the plug-ins tutorial. It will show you -amongst others- how you can edit room points.
Sloping floors aren't possible, unless you use a workaround. The simplest way would be to use a large triangle. Sloping ceilings are supported; check the roof tutorial.
Also, the User's guide offers a lot of information, as does the built-in Help.
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Re: sloping floors (and roofs...)
Thanks for the info. I'll study those - I did look around a bit in the help and the forum. I guess "sloping floors" would go along with roofs as a feature in a later version :)
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Re: sloping floors (and roofs...)
Well, I more or less got the roofs right... they don't quite join up correctly, partly because it's not quite a regular ocatgon, so there are 2 slightly different (and no doubt subtly wrong) roof sections. Can I post screenshots?
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Re: sloping floors (and roofs...)
Hans, I have installed the appropriate plugins and I followed the slopingCeilingGuide, and was able to make a roof, but on one side (I think it was the side on the ground before rotation) there is a rectangle at right angles to the roof that won't go away. Only the side toward the roof is visible; from the other side it's transparent. The roof was created from a single sloping wall; it has no peak. ( /= ) How can I get rid of the rectangle?
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Re: sloping floors (and roofs...)
Leslie,
Since SH3D v4.0, you should change one step. Don't useTools --> Copy as new furniture. Instead use directly 3d view --> Export to OBJ format --> Export selection.
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