On 29.04.17 18:43, Mark Trickett via luv-main wrote: > Just watch what you are doing with care, and it can do remarkable > things. One of the critical things is to do the detail design in your > head first, cladding thicknesses, fasteners, joints, particularly the > complex ones. If you can envisage the detail of the build in your > head, then you can get that onto paper somehow. I did drafting as part > of a Mechanical Engineering degree. Putting in the detail is where you > find out whether the drawing is correct and functional.
Yes, you've hit the nail on the head there. I'd laboriously drawn it up on graph paper, but with strawbale-unit dimensions, and with a great fat strawbale skin. I'm too old to do another DIY owner-builder build, and that's the only way that strawbale is viable. Now it's back to standard building units and materials. So rather than do it again with pencil & paper, postscript allows me to automate detail right down to double studs around wall openings - while counting how many end up being used. Oh-oh, just remembered that the cladding comes in 1200 mm wide sheets - so replace the 450 mm stud spacing (one variable) and the stud_wall procedure moves the studs to sheet edges and centres. OK, there's a slow initial primitive-building & tweaking phase, but after that it should fly - in a most flexible folding swiss army knife fashion. Add vim folding markers in the comments, and I can have folding text in my manually generated postscript file. A good overview and rapid navigation both boost productivity. Thanks for the encouragement. Erik _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
