You can create buildings on a mesh in different ways, unless the selected mesh exceeds the
user-defined area limit.
Define the height [F]
- in the VCB, if you like, before you create a building from scratch
- in the menue (for selected meshes/faces)
- or afterwards for a selected building (mouseover) via VCB.
- or afterwards for selected buildings via context
FROM SELECTED FACES / SURFACE / MESH WITH PAINTED BUILDINGS- paint buildings with the buildingtool modifier
- paint buildings with the building brush (
AREAL3D materials)
- select
a part of a mesh or some faces
and apply the building material to the selection
or
paint areas with building material
- select the area including the painted faces
- create buildings via
create from painting > from toolbar (with more parameters in the following menue)
> from selector's context menue with prepared height option = 5 / 15 / 25 for quick workflow
(no further menue)
FROM SELECTED FACES / SURFACE - select any face / surface / area
- define desired height (floors) in menue or VCB
- create buildings via
create from selection > from toolbar, if selection was made with sketchup standard selection tool
> from toolbar or selector's context menue, if selection was made with selector
FROM SCRATCH - THE MODIFIER - use the building modifier and ,click' buildings from faces / surfaces
> you can create buildings "from scratch" from all materials
> create a building from the top-face of an AREAL-wall group
Within the modifier you can even 'paint' buildings (left+move) on any surface
and then (or later) left-click to create a building.
FROM VOLUMES - THE TRANSFORMER AREAL3D-volumes can also be converted to buildings. Just select the volumes and
convert them to buildings from the selector >> buildings-context menu.
This tool is w.i.p. at the moment.......
INFO: There is a build in area limit for the buildings, so wider ranges (face areas or surface area) will be ignored. You can define the limit in the
general options.
Note :
Please be aware of the fact, that buildings can be created from any face or surface, flat or sloped.
In very rare situations, where lines painted by other tools on a surface do not create a desired surface, try to use intersection or redraw the lines to create clean meshes at the desired areas
or clean the meshes befor you continue to work with this tool.
You also can delete a desired part of the mesh and close it again with a 'clean' mesh.
