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[Tom Rogers]

I have a house that has a garage wing that shoots out at a 45 degree angle.  When I generate the elevations I get the front that looks similar to the picture.  However I cant figure out how to generate an elevation where I would be looking straight on to the garage wall instead of seeing it at an angle.  How does everyone else do it? 

[Gary McKeon]

Have you tried taking a "section" cut on the exterior looking in the direction you want?

[Keith Almond]

As Gary said, take a section outside the building on the line you want, with background enabled. Make the line long enough too encompass all the rest of the building on an angle.

 

 

Having said that, I'd still probably still only "draw" 4 elevations and let the angled block show angled on the elevations.

[Tom Rogers]

 That was my thought but did not know if there was a better (or different) way of doing it. Most of the elevations work fine with angled section.  The right side did not look correct so I was wanting to try it differently. 

[Steve and Carla Farnam]

Tom,

 

I have a similar house with 45 degree angled garage. To generate the desired elevation view try > Front Elevation >

Then rotate the Front View to desired view and save as spd, should then generate the line drawing per the view.

 

Steve

[Tom Rogers]

Steve:

 

I thought that would work too but what I dId was hit the SE arrow (if you view it as a compass).  That shot it up to an ariel view from it and created a 3D view. 

[Keith Almond]

Is there a way to constrain the rotate to just one axis - using SHIFT or CTRL or to just rotate an exact 45°? I'm not at a Softplan machine, so can't experiment.

[Tom Rogers]

you can use the arrows with CNTR and SHIFT but you still will have to be able to line it up perfectly.  I am going to try to the section line.  Just still seems weird that it cant be done.  Feel like I am missing something

[Steve and Carla Farnam]

Tom,

 

I have been using the steps above to generate elevations from any angle by rotating the view, generated using the

Elevation>Views>Front Elevation and then generating the .spd file saved as an editable line drawing. I have been rotating the 

view using the mouse until desired view is set.

[Tom Rogers]

Okay Steve.  I see.  I was thinking of trying to rotate before the drawing file.  That might work better.I can try that.  Thanks.

[randolph cohn]

how about going to "MODEL" / section polyline  with "background" checked.

[Tom Rogers]

That was what Gary said first.  While I agree with all; you would think that there would be an easier way. 

[randolph cohn]

tom,

 

gary said "take a section cut"  > 

 

I said a > section / polyline where you can go in multiple directions

with one section line.

 

note: i've only done 2 direction with polyline.  not sure if it can do more

[Philip Frank]

You can rotate your elevation to an exact angle by using the "Binocular" tool located in the center of the "3D camera" window (see attached. Create a standard (Front, Right, etc.) 3D elevation that includes the exterior of the angled wall. Now choose the "Binocular" tool and you'll be prompted to "Select Surface to Look At". Click on the angled wall and your 3D elevation will be perpendicular to that wall. The wall will be centered in the display window and you may have to zoom out and pan right or left if you want to see the entire elevation.

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[Keith Almond]

Didn't know that! ... Phil, you're a genius.

[Philip Frank]

No different than any of us here on the forum. I like clicking on buttons to see what they do. Every once and a while you find something cool!

[Keith Almond]

Never thought about clicking on the binoculars .... Did click on the centre button on the MODEL > ELEVATION > DIRECTION dialogue box though and that gives a TOP elevation (which I hadn't thought about) ... It's not even obvious that it's a button.

 

[Tom Rogers]

Perfect Phil.  Same thing, just thought the binoculors were more of a picture than them doing anything.  Thanks