Domus.Cad 13 Release Notes
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1. 21 Alignment on a FIOOr ROOf E 21 EXTRUSION lada 21 Multiple selection Denial 21 WALES JOIN CUT AND FILLET a a E aT e a pr aT ias 22 nine eec A 22 ISI ia niei dier CE 22 Parabolic Fillets cccccccccscccccctacsccietecstatecsteccactsscesessevscsasestessasestsdseeustsesasesseusesustsesesvessestsestessasestsestsustsesasest sedsustsesosseuseessesesesesvetss 23 Domus Cad 13 Release Notes Filet LaL OE S EC d ERROR RD DD C 23 gHZJIEIILQep uds M M 23 SD VIEW OPTIMIZAT ION 552 2c icc ec eLo danna Ree DNA Se CIA Dl papa Ce 24 OTHERS FEATURES 24 SACA AA E AAA ONO 24 Safety back upin LENITER C 24 Levels of Cancel WImGOWS sccciccecccecsicsctsvstesctecsteccsedsvescesvedesctccsvececccsteccdsvedesetecsveceusssueucisuctevateccsssubeseuvcssust vescesescuedsievciextese 24 PAGING eoe CC M H 24 Number of decimal points vcsccccccccccsescecccaccsscesossetsovacestsscesssdscesossetssensssesscasesdessessstsevssestssevsssteusessstssenseseisceseudsssosssdivessestessesessse 25 Is odi go d Ter eme C H 25 iugo ajr SSS 25 COMES SO Characters lONGc ccccccccccccscecccccusssscesesscessesceseeseessvdsssessctsevdsesteseisestsuseesstsesseestesetsesdeuseesstsve2. 14 Polygons Slabs ANA TOO sacsssscscccesssascsacssescesscoacsecasevscosesscadeossosessoeseascoasssesseasseassseeseoscessceeadedssessesoeseascessssoedesssessiseeseoacesseooesee 14 Wallls Segments and MIT CE EotasSs 14 Ludi ic 15 Materials Order AAA 15 SA O SO 15 DOME me PRU MS 16 A A RR T e M NP TE 16 INAVISaUIOD erre ee Ier EEE ESSENCE NN 17 Standard Views eere EE eS HEN ER EE NN 17 NIEW SAVING sccccutccstescastuscesessececaecesesseussubessentesbeusssberscuseustesessecesscasesscussuseesescesbeaseabiuscuseustesescsssaseesesseussuseasencesbeasseseescnsoassesesceuste 18 Ko lic DCN EEK 18 SD View Keyboard geli uro PE M 18 3D Views and Palettes e Vista 3D X 18 jen o cl2ei nli 19 Alignment to a SEMEN iT P 19 Alignment 0 8 Wall T 19 Alignment on Door or WindOw ieceeeeeeeeesteeeeseseeeseevsese esee seb est eese be eib ese tee pe seb esL ee Hebe EP esee EH pe SEP ese eS epe Eb ese EE Pe rb eie eU uEE 20 Alignment ES rc SSS 20 Alignment onma I eee 20 Alignment onm a POLYGON NER
3. 11 Domus Cad 13 Release Notes To work on the Dimension in its entirety use the Dimension button This new operating mode does not apply to dimensions inserted using previous versions of Domus Cad Selection of a dimension Any click on one of the components of the dimension text or segments select all the dimension all the text and all the segments before after clicking on a segment or text Moving a dimension Multiple Selection allows you to move the whole Dimension keeping its axis parallel and its ends firmly fixed between two lines drawn perpendicular to the ends The Dimension Points remain unchanged NB the above is true only when moving using the mouse if you use the arrow keys then the Dimension can be moved in any direction like any normal Multiple Selection During this operation an Information Window gives interactive update on X difference Y difference length and angle For X and Y the difference is shown between the original coordinates and the present ones Length is the distance between the two axes calculated perpendicularly Angle is the axis angle which however remains unchanged during the move Moving the dimension points Clicking on an individual dimension point allows you to move it up or down the axis between the two dimension points on either side A dimension point at the end of the axis can be moved on one side as far as the next internal point whi
4. You can always recuperate the penultimate version of your Drawing When you come to save the version you have just finished working on the Save to Disk Command a first saves the new version to a temporary file called DOMUS cad file provv in the DOMUS cad Data personal folder b if the Save operation is successfully completed the new and old versions are swapped over the old version over writes any previous version already in DOMUS cad Data c the penultimate version is safely parked in DOMUS cad Data until over written by the next Save operation Safety back up in Windows The Save to Disk Command saves the current version and also creates next to it a re named copy of the previous version in the BackUPDomus folder In BackUPDomus you have a sub file called NameofProject Dir which contains the last ten versions of your project named Back NameofProject WorkTime dms These are regular Domus Cad files and can be opened modified saved etc Levels of Cancel Windows You can now deactivate Undo Redo by choosing Level 0 In the Undo Redo Preferences dialog window This Is particularly useful when Importing documents with a lot of elements e g maps In dxf and when your memory Is limited Just cancel the parts you don t want and Import faster Paging Before a mouse click would automatically select the Component highest up on Domus Cad s internal listing of Components for Paging If you were unlucky and this first component
5. Materials Domus Cad 13 Release Notes Materials Parameters Materials Present 24 Materials Present 20 Name Walls Cloth Color Gray Black fe d Concrete Drawing Green Line 3D View Cyan velow Pefecive Specular Yellow 3 Reflective TESSUS e nspari Light Green Light blue wall Texture Glass Wood 3D Y Enable Light Brown Aa Enable Pavment A Senape Es E Ambient coeff 1 0000 Other Ambient Coeff 1 000 Reflective coeff 4 0000 Id 21 Y 2 JL Plotter pen m89853 Remove Duplicate New Reflective Coeff 4 000 Id 15 Mac Os X Windows XP Materials order It s now possible to change the order of the materials The four buttons below change the order of the current material Textures Any material can have an associated texture The Texture button opens the following Texture Parameters Dialog Texture Parameters f Texture Parameters briks 6 Texture briks 6 jpa E OO MES Repeat X v Repeat Y Height 7d 7 cm Width a cm Angle 0 0000 EO Offset Dem Offset Y o em Window XP 15 Domus Cad 13 Release Notes Clicking on the Texture files a pop up menu allows the user to choose a texture A preview of the chosen texture is immediately shown ce 66 and buttons zoom out and in the preview 100 shows the tex
6. only have we moved one of the Dimension Points we have also changed the Style of Text Length of Vertical Lines Distance of Text Unit of Measurement and also Number of Decimals 213 Domus Cad 13 Release Notes 3 00 2 00 1 00 final result We could then change Type of Decimal Rounding 60 136 56 128 Qs 3 3 3 3 3 3 original situation 20 135 a 130 100 AH rounding to the nearest 5 ll 14 60 130 100 C M rounding to the nearest 10 Thus the parameters of the entire Dimension can be changed following a change made to one of the Dimension Points Except for the color the color used for the axis is applied ignoring Current Color Editing elements Polygons slabs and roofs There are two new buttons Shift Vertices back al e Shift vertices forward I These allow you to shift the vertexes around the outside of the polygon or slab Practically the numbering of each vertex is shifted forward or backward depending on the button pressed The Buttons have been given a and sign marking them clockwise and anticlockwise is not feasible as the contorted nature of some Polygons make it impossible to forecast the direction Vertexes will shift in It is now easier to deal with OPEN Polygons and also to change the direction of Textures see below Walls Segments and Roofs There are two new editable fields Distance and Angle 14
7. takes longer to load ObjRot Module This new module allows you to rotate a selected object by inserting Angle of rotation in sexadecimals degrees integer number A Axis of rotation X Y or Z Rotation on the Z axis corresponds to the object rotation you have in the Process menu Itis the Slabs which are actually rotated all other elements remain in position Should you want to rotate objects suce as Walls Stairs etc they must first be converted into two dimensions slabs with O thickness The original object is not moved the module creates a new rotated version which you position using the space bar 2
8. Domus Cad 13 Release Notes Domus Cad 13 Helease Notes All nights re J Interstu dio tectural amp Engineerin An outline of the differences between Domus Cad 13 and Domus Cad 12 Domus Cad 13 is for Windows 98 NT 2000 XP Mac Os X and Mac Os 9 Interstudio S r l all rights reserved Domus Cad 13 Release Notes Table of contents WHATS NEW iodo 4 DOORS AND WINDOWS 0002 iii caigan caniaii 4 O A OIT 4 ITO VASA C Bite 5 Inside Outsid of openings sssscesssssesssccadissscsecesctavesevscesesesasenssossoasesonssasocseasonssossoaedsessesesseaseanseaseaseseessesoasesssassessbasessessassssaseussese 5 A M H 6 Op ning COMI ARE M 7 Reveals and sill parameters RR 9 Minimum distanCe q 11 DIMENSION Si vtec este eee ee eae eee eae 11 Selection Of a dimensio AAA AR iM ERE 12 MARA NN 12 Moving the dimension Ponts RRRRRRRRR 12 DECORADAS kres ssv sts stos setot s stss sosti sos otov s tEn TESTE AE ESATE OE EEE SE TETES EOSS 13 Inserting dimension pOInts eec ee eee eer re Per ee eR eS ESSEN EYE EE VETE EHE odv s66 bov okv ots stav NER NES EEN PEEL eT eR EET EUN SES e V STE SoSo ESETE TE SEES 13 Updating DIMENSION pOHits eoe eerte eee Cove A A RENE e eS ERU Ee SET TESES Ue eue SETUP SER Ee ETE EVEN Te eo eie ewe Ua 13 EDING EL EMEN US eiciccsesacncseste
9. Dopo Alignment on a Floor Roof As above Extrusion The Extrusion dialog window has additional new parameters Reference Height The reference height of the generated extruded object on Domus Cad 12 it was always 0 Use slab thickness currently selected slab thickness is used If none the slab thickness equals zero in practice a surface Use slab colors currently selected slab colors are used If none the current color is used Multiple selection Extrusion Now the Extrusion command can be applied to a multiple selection in fact the name of the option is now in plural form Extrude Slabs from Polygons Until now to extrude a Slab from complex forms with holes punched out of them it was necessary to first create one single Polygon With Version 13 s Multiple Selection Extrusion all you do is bring the various Polygons together as in the example below The extrusion result is 21 Domus Cad 13 Release Notes Walls Join Cut and Fillet All the Join Cut and Fillet commands that in the previous version were applicable to segments only are now applicable to walls Join and Cut The Walls must be selected exactly Then click on the following buttons choose either Join and Cut Va or Join Cut and Eliminate c or use the Join and Cut Command from the Edit Menu The option must not be used on Walls containing Openings 1 Join and Cut d Wow ww c oO dw Fillet with arch Either press A
10. cimal point Height of objects The height shown in the Dialog Window refers only to Objects created in Drawing mode Objects created using Selection are given a height of 0 thus avoiding knock on modifications to the position of other Elements Line of Cut Now if you press Shift while tracing the Line of Cut the Line is forced into a horizontal or vertical position You can press Shift as often as wished during tracing to block or unblock the horizontal vertical position View end of Wall In previous versions of Domus Cad you could make the ends of Walls visible or invisible by doing Alt click on the wall end Now you can do more By clicking on the zu icon and then on the wall ends not only can you choose if ends should be visible or not but you choice is now permanent i e it remains the same even after for example fusion of walls has taken place AM During this option the cursor changes to M Codes 30 characters long Instead of the original 13 characters you now have 30 available for the following AREF codes for all Elements Names of Materials Names of Fills 25 Domus Cad 13 Release Notes Category definitions Sets definitions Import graphic formats The Command Import PICT will now import all graphic formats recognised by QuickTime including jpeg GIF TIFF BMP PNG Targa and many more The results can be viewed in Print Preview from there you can save the PICT in the abo
11. e modes 3D View On the bottom of the 3D View there is a new palette with new commands and operative modes Selection The first button activates the Selection Mode Clicking on an element on the 3D view selects the element in both 3D View and plan window The selected element is highlighted with handles on the corners If the element is an object it s highlighted inside a multicolored wire frame 16 Domus Cad 13 Release Notes Selected element Selected object e Shift clicking on others elements adds them to the current selection Multiple selection e Shift clicking on a selected element deselects it Usually it is possible to select the active layer elements only Command clicking on a element selects it independently of the layer of the element If it is different from the current layer that becomes the element layer Double clicking on an element open the Parameters Dialog of that element It is possible to change all the parameters of the elements directly on the 3D View Double clicking on an element with a layer different from the actual layer changes the actual layer and opens the Parameters Dialog of the element Navigation This button enables the Navigation mode as in the previous Domus Cad versions Standard Views There are 6 standard views a Front View The Camera looks in the Y direction Left View The Camera looks in the X direction Ts Domus Cad 13 Release Note
12. e reveals data are totally editable allowing you to resolve very complex situations Ticking the Simplified box gives you the predefined parameters available in former Version 12 of Domus Cad the window sill is calculated at exactly half the width of the Wall and its inside edge runs along the Wall s barycenter the reveals are always 8 cm any splayed reveal is drawn at a fixed angle so the thicker the Wall the wider the Door or Window opening The Simplified option produces a drawing as in Domus Cad 12 pe Depth of Window Sill This allows you to define the depth of the window sill irrespective of the Wall thickness The example below shows the classic solution as per the former version of Domus Cad the window sill is half the width of the wall 5 cm Simplified 10 cm Wall 3 cm Sill 10 cm Wall 8 cm Sill and even if we widen the Wall to 20 cm the window sill can remain at 8 cm Domus Cad 13 Release Notes 20 cm Wall 8 cm Sill There is no limit to the maximum width of the window sill it can even be wider than the Wall The possibility of the sill being wider than the wall is particularly useful for Doors and Windows set in a niche We get a sort of pillar which protrudes from the Wall but can be modified just like a normal opening The following example shows not a thicker Wall but a Window in a niche with a 15cm window sill The possibility of protruding window
13. es to open complex documents with lots of Textures even on slower computers should the Document have been filed with Textures open Zoom 4 These commands have been modified so that even if you press Alt at the same time the scale is enlarged or reduced only by 10 instead of 100 As you see the resulting change immediately this makes it easier for you to find the ideal scale interactively you no longer have to key in your guess of the desired scale in Choose Scale Metric calculation Each column has as before space for 13 characters For numbers codes exceeding 13 characters the first 12 characters are shown plus to indicate the elision example below e Layer 1 e Layer 1 Type AREF Categ Set Material Calc Line 123456789012 black num Line short aref short categ Short set black lun Line 123456789012 123456789012 123456789012 123456789012 lun Long codes are elided only when you Visualize on video or Save in Text Format If you Save in Table Format fields separated by tabs no elision takes place If you select Consider only Visible Layers or Consider only Active Layers the name of the Layer is now printed Category POROTON length 93 82 m Category STONE length 10 20 m Category BRICKS length 67 77 m Walls intersection The Intersection Point command is now available also for walls the intersection occurring at the walls axes Information pa
14. executing the Segments Alignment command gt E K After choosing the option the cursor changes to A to remind you to chose an alignment element The user can choose any element with the exceptions of objects and images The program then 1 finds the intersection between the Line and its new alignment if necessary by projecting the Lines and the alignment line until they meet 2 chooses the end of the Line nearest the Alignment 3 extends or cuts the Line at the intersection mentioned in point 1 The below example shows how it works SK Before After Bo c Alignment to a segment The alignment reference line is the axis of the segment Alignment to a Wall Segments are aligned either right or left of the Wall depending on their prevailing position 19 Domus Cad 13 Release Notes _ Before After Alignment on a Door or Window As for Walls both sides of the Openings are used Before After Alignment on a Stair As for Walls and Openings the two sides of the staircase are used Alignment on a Text The alignment is made to the base line of the text LJ Pi LJ testo Before After te 2 Domus Cad 13 Release Notes Alignment on a polygon Polygons and also Oval Circles Arches and freehand Curves Click beside the edge you want to use for alignment It will then appear as a heavy line The alignment line is the axis of the side clicked on
15. he program automatically decides where the opening s centre will be The centre is found by finding the barycenter of the Wall s shortest edge F d Centered on the wall A combination of options d and c All you have to decide is the outside inside of the opening at Ir x il d c centered with fixed width Click on a wall The door window will be positioned in the center of the wall wo ae d b Centered with fixed distance A combination of d and b options As above you only decide the outside or inside Some conventions used when tracing The above Tracing Modes work unless you have selected the Tracing for Center icon While tracing you can if wished fix the mouse s position to the Grid Points or other points in the drawing Once you have done this the new snapped position is perpendicularly projected on the wall to set the end of the opening Door Window modify All the tracing modes above can be used to modify existing openings regardless of how they have been inserted If an opening is selected the current distance from end wall and width are shown regardless of how the opening was conceived Multiple selection is allowed e g you can specify a standard width for all Windows Inside Outside of openings Tracing While tracing with the mouse a spot indicates the inside of the Door or Window This is valid for all tracing modes Selection If you change the visualization mode while selecting
16. ith arch and therefore has a minimal Maximum Attach Distance there is a possibility you may get unwanted fusions between the original Wall which undoubtedly had an ample Maximum Attach Distance and some very short walls see example below before after magnified view of the unwanted fusions This problem can only arise when using the Fillet with Given Arch Command never with the Fillet with Arch or Parabolic Fillet commands How to solve it Specify a low value for Maximum Attach Distance at least for the Wall which shows the problem In our example the left hand Wall has been given an Attach value of ONE centimeter As you can see there are no unwanted fusions Tile Fills Rotation The Angle parameter on the Tile Fills parameter windows is now active It s possible to create new fills rotating the tiles as in the example below 2 23 Domus Cad 13 Release Notes MAD IM ard ME Ur T 3D View optimization The 3D Interactive View is strongly optimized for faster 3D View updating after any model change The model is divided in many groups one for each layer and one for the lights When an element is added or edited only the active layer is affected so it s sufficient to update only a part of the model instead of the whole model as in the Domus Cad 12 version If the 3D updating slows down it is recommendable to subdivide the layer to two or mode layers Others features Safety back up in Mac Os
17. l threshold ht and area External Mat Internal Tracing mode Reveals O a By mouse semplified 0 b Fixed dist 10 gt C Default x k of EE O 0 Fixed Width 90 gu b c Fixed Width Dist mim O d Centered on the wall rz O d c Centered fixed width A d b Centered Fixed dist ok Cancel Major innovations regard Data input and modification New types for plans New types in 3D Parameterization of dimensions Tracing modes Fr F F a Manual Traditional mode up till now the only mode available A click of the mouse marks the beginning of a Door or Window The end is marked when the mouse is released HE Fr k F b Fixed distance from end Select the option and insert the distance required then click on the wall axis The program selects the end of the wall nearest to the click and puts the beginning of the opening at the distance required The other end of the opening is fixed in the traditional manner by dragging the mouse to the desired point HE Fr c Fixed Width The program draws the opening centered on the mouse click with the width required The opening can be dragged to the position required HE Fr x b c Fixed Width and Distance Domus Cad 13 Release Notes The Door or Window is automatically centered in the Wall and its width is determined using the mouse This works something like Tracing for the Centre except that in this option t
18. le the free end can even be extended thus increasing the original Dimension The coordinates are shown interactively near the Mouse cursor In the example below the Attach Point being modified is 127 from the point on its left and 154 from that on its right ly db 280 z 95 155 L 125 30 325 127 154 212 Domus Cad 13 Release Notes Deleting dimension points Dimension Points can also be deleted using the Alt Click like Polygons can have their Vertexes cancelled The measurements are automatically re calculated Inserting dimension points New Dimension points can be added using Ctrl Click Win Command Click Mac on the axis rather like inserting intermediate Vertexes in Polygons Immediately the distance of the new Point are shown from the Points on either side of it 280 z 375 30 325 Before AF 280 z 375 30 325 249 126 During 280 30 250 125 30 325 After New Points can be added externally to the Dimension by first selecting the Dimension then Ctrl Clicking Win or Command Clicking Mac where the new Points are required Updating Dimension points Following moving deleting or insertion of new Dimension Points the revised Dimension still keeps the original Global Operating Parameters such as Type of Decimal Rounding Style of Text Number of Decimals Measurement Unit Length of Lines Distance of Text and so on Our example below shows the original Dimension je 00 je 200 je 100 je Now not
19. lette The height of selected objects is now shown Fills Palette The Fills Palette always shows the name and position of current fill If the fill is an angled tile in the palette the fill is edged in green and its angle is shown next to its name 297 Domus Cad 13 Release Notes Materials palette In the Materials palette the name of the current material can be seen Print fills In the Fills Parameters Window you can now activate Always use Mixed Format when Printing This overrides No format BitMap format or Normal Format in the Dialog Window This function is particularly useful for Drawings with a multitude of complex Vectorial Fills which can slow you down considerably In such situations the temptation was to de activate the Fills completely or visualize them all in BitMap And after completing a lot of elaborate graphic work to your horror you realized you had hit the Print command without re activating Print in Mixed Format Now this new function allows you to relax work as much as you like without Fills and still be sure that the Fills will be printed in their correct format 3D View Quality For the moment this choice is possible for arched Doors or Windows but in future the choice will be extended to Meshes and other elements Low quality defines an Arch with 10 Medium quality has 25 parts High quality has 60 Naturally higher quality definition
20. new forms to the Geometry Menu HE without reveals EES stright reveals P inclined reveals EF stright niche P inclined niche HE invisible Rectangular As in the version 12 Arc The arch is calculated automatically according to the width of the opening The example below shows two Windows of the same Height and Depth but with different Widths thus they form a different height of arch The two windows below have same height and sill but different width Domus Cad 13 Release Notes Lowered center arc The two Windows have the same height and depth and in this example the same height of arch Similar to Lowered Arch The openings have the same Depth Height and height of arch but different Widths But while the Lowered Arch is done using a portion of circumference the Flattened Arch uses a semi oval curve Compare the figure below with the Lowered Arch above note the sides of the Window run into the arch below The Depth of the opening is taken into consideration but not the Height as the circle is calculated based only on the Width Lowered Arc Circular arch circle In the example above the two Window have the same Depth but different Heights diameters because they have been drawn with different Widths Oval The Depth or sill together with the Height and Width form a rectangle inside which an Oval is traced Domus Cad 13 Release Notes Reveals and sill parameters Th
21. or select Link with Automatic Arch from sub menu Automatic Generating in the Edit menu Again the two walls must be selected exactly When you link Lines you get one single Element a Polygon But when you link Walls the program generates internally a temporary polygon later cancelled on which builds a succession of little Walls As this temporary polygon is created along the axes of the two selected Walls axial tracing is also used to build the Walls of the arch You can use the temporary polygon to operate on the precision of the new walls by modifying Maximum Vertexes for Polygons in the Polygon Dialog Window 22 Domus Cad 13 Release Notes us Before After m Before After Parabolic Fillet Works same way both for Lines and for Walls press m or select Link with Parabolic Fillet from sub menu Automatic Generating in the Edit menu For further information see above explanation for Fillet with arch Fillet with given arch Works same way both for Lines and for Walls press A or select Link with Arch and Radius from sub menu Automatic Generating in the Edit menu For further information see above explanations for Fillet with arch and Parabolic Fillet except for following difference when the two selected Walls are joined by the new section of Arch a re fusion also takes place at the other two ends of the Walls concerned Now if one of the ends already contains a fillet w
22. s Back View The Camera looks in the Y direction f Right View The Camera looks in the X direction ls g Panoramic View P Centered View The Camera isn t moved and the observed point is moved exactly to the center of the 3D model View saving E Copy View The 3D view image is copied on the Clipboard E Copy View on a Layer The 3D view image is copied to a chosen layer Save 3D View as 3D Metafile Textures E Enable and disable the visibility of the textures 3D View Keyboard Shortcuts y Function 3D model Autoscale Navigation mode Front View Selection mode Textures activate deactivate domo 3D Views and Palettes e Vista 3D Now the palettes are active even if the 3D View is the front Window This allows the user to apply the palettes command to the selected elements on the 3D View see below some examples Change the active layer Group a multiple selection to an object Separate one or more selected objects Select a slab and click on the Generate Walls on slab command 18 Domus Cad 13 Release Notes Alignment of segments eX This new command on the Palette n 2 allows the user to cut or elongate selected segments on a chosen element This command is similar to the Join and Cut command The Join and Cut command can be applied to two segments or walls while the Adapt Lines to Alignment command can be applied to a multiple selection of segments 8 Selection of the segments After
23. sills works with obliquely set niches too 10 cm Wall 15 em Sill Width of reveals Different widths can be chosen for the left and right hand reveals as in the example below where the left hand reveal is 15cm and the right hand 5 cm 15 cm left 5 cm right The width of the reveal must always exceed zero though it can go down to 0 0001 cm as in the example below 15 cm left 0 00001 cm right p Ps Splayed reveals width As you can see in the example above it s possible to have a splayed reveal on one side and a straight reveal on the other side Not only the splayed reveal width can be negative as in the example below 10 Domus Cad 13 Release Notes 10 cm left O cm right 5 cm left 5 cm right Some notes By the combination of the various parameters it s possible to create many types of windows and doors Minimum distance The minimum distance of a Window Door from the wall extreme is now 1 cm 2 5 In the previous version it was 8 cm 3 1 5 Dimensions You can now modify dimensions in interactive mode Up till now the elements which make up a Dimension such as Segments Texts were treated separately With Domus Cad 13 you can work on the Dimension in its entirety To deal with the separate components of a Dimension use the Segment or Text buttons As in the previous Version 12 you can select move and change the various elements as much as you wish
24. ssesesseesesdessesssesseseesteseesessss 25 Import graphic CO WIL US RR Ecc cr cicacccrcicicicias 26 Calculation Cod S 26 Drawing PLOVICW sissiscsasseascsssssssssassnssssassonsesasssasosasesssssassossasssssassassesonssasoassedesssapoassesoassasoossesssseapsassesssseadoossaseoseassassesseseesoosseseesee 26 Polygon and Slabs SUbAIVISION Peer MM 26 Opening documents with Alt and Command keys Mac ese sesesesesoesssesosoesesesososessesososcesesososcssesososcssesososcssssososessesososesssse 26 LOOM A Er RUE EE RM 27 lugqeciuuiru saai eiS 27 Walls intersection T s 27 AAA A A O TIO 27 DIES E 27 Materials EPI Dir nde ISSIT 28 A O O 28 SDD Vi Sr AAA A O O A A OA A A OA 28 MALLA A A A A A 28 Domus Cad 13 Release Notes What s New Below is a brief description of the differences between this version and previous version 12 For more detailed information please consult the User Manual Doors and Windows Some interesting improvements have been made to the Doors and Windows Here s how the new dialog Window for Windows Parameters now appears Doors and Windows Parameters Window new elements AREF Height Type Rias LH qd5 yE g Sill O Bs GD View Show height length on doors Show height length on windows Show sil
25. the Door or Window the inside will be indicated by a small square on the end of the opening s central axis This is particularly helpful for openings with straight reveals Domus Cad 13 Release Notes Modify A new function enables you to invert the opening s inside outside This is done not through a Menu Command but by direct use of the mouse you simply click on either end of the opening s central axis Type New types of opening are now available through the Menu Type n rectangle n arc n lowered center rH lowered arc a circle O oval or using the Attributes palette The number of type of openings is now 6 The first 3 were present in the previous version The new types are Straight Niche nclined Niche nvisible The type can be chosen by the pop up menu on the Door Windows Dialog or using the Attribute palette Niches Domus Cad 13 Release Notes Straight or oblique they are contained by walls whose internal and external finish are chosen through the Dialog Window Niches are positioned using the same modes as described above for doors and windows Invisible Openings If the user has chosen a highly customized kind of opening e g with curved reveals or protruding window sills it can be useful to start from a totally empty space Qn Sehen dci RN s EET A 2 5 Invisible Window Opening geometry As well as the original rectangular shape we have added several
26. ture with its real dimensions Height and Width fields are the real dimensions of the texture If the box on the right is checked the real dimensions are forced to be proportional to the texture pixels dimension The Angle field rotates the texture with reference to the horizontal default direction The default 0 direction is as follows below Walls base line Floors and Roofs first side Stairs steps width Repeat X if checked the texture is repeated in the X direction Repeat Y if checked the texture is repeated in the Y direction X and Y offsets allow the user to perfectly align the texture with the element geometry If X and Y are O and Repeat X and Repeat Y are deactivated the texture is applied in the left bottom corner of the surface The texture can be enabled or disabled by the Enable check box in the Materials Dialog Window A button on the 3D View activates or deactivates the visibility of all the textures in the 3D View To insert new user textures simply insert images in the DOMUS Cad Data gt DOMUS cad textures folder Some of the supported formats are jpeg tiff gif BMP Targa PNG and others Some examples of a texture applied to a wall follow below Texture not repeated Repeated along X Repeated along X and Y Rotated At present RayShade Renderer doesn t support textures which are not repeated Quesa Mac Os X partially supports repeated textures QuickDraw 3D Mac Os 9 and Classic support all th
27. ve mentioned formats Calculation Codes You can now work on an Element s Calculation Code without involving the Category Code You will find the new Calculation Option in the Parameters Menu The Dialog Window shows the type of Element you are working on in the example below we have a Line Domus Cad deals separately with a series of Calculation Codes for each of the following types of Element Walls Doors and Windows Lines Texts Slabs and Roofs Stairs Polygons PICTures Objects SO your criterion for calculating a Line could be Length for a Polygon Single Surface for a Wall Both Surfaces for an Object Content and so on Drawing preview In creating a Drawing Preview the program now automatically converts to Natural Scale thus avoiding the risk of saving on disk a hugely enlarged view with consequent creation of an over sized PICTure and a NewGWorld Error message Polygon and slabs subdivision The Divide With Attach Points command previously valid for segments and walls is now applicable to polygons and slabs Selected polygon each side is subdivided in four parts Opening documents with Alt and Command keys Mac A safety check has been added when opening documents Now if you hold down Command or Alt the 3D view Window does not open the interactive update function is de activated as is the Texture function This makes it easier 26 Domus Cad 13 Release Not
28. was a frame around the page you were unable then to select anything else on the page But now 24 Domus Cad 13 Release Notes ifa Component is already selected the Mouse choose it without searching for the first Component memorized clicking on a Component different from the selected one results in a search where the program will always propose the first Component on the internal list however you can choose another Component via Menu clicking outside of all Components cancels all selections Number of decimal points The following modifications have been made n all Dialog Windows and Palettes angles are shown with four decimal points n the following Dialog Windows and Palettes Coordinates Palette Offset Parameters Dialog Window Dialog Window for editing static Elements Dialog Window for editing dynamic Elements Decimal points shown for numerical values depend on the unit of measurement chosen e g for millimeters 2 decimal points for centimeters 3 for meters 5 for kilometers 8 decimal points n the Stairs Parameters Dialog Window the tread is shown with an automatically defined number of decimal points in the same way as described above The Information Palette shows the number of decimal points you have specified plus one That is if you specified for your unit of measurement centimeters no decimal points the Information Palette will show all values with one de
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