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Over the years TurboCAD has offered a variety of solutions for the process of creating walls and then inserting door or window symbols. In this article we will briefly examine the history of the methods used for these tasks. We will start from the basics of creating lines and arcs through to the existing drag and drop methods used today in TurboCAD Professional v8.

The narrated streaming media videos show the progression of how the program has developed to reach its current functionality. We will also present a layering technique that can be easily used to view both 2D and 3D representations of the doors and windows within the same wall.

In the beginning (way back in the DOS days) walls had to be created by drawing single lines and then using the parallel line tool to create the wall thickness. The modification tools such as Meet 2 Lines and Shrink/Extend Line were used to clean up the lines so that they appeared as walls. In order to insert a door you would have to Trim out the unwanted lines to illustrate the entry.

Then came the TurboCAD Wall tool that offered some intelligent behavior in that it allowed you to draw walls that automatically cleaned up the intersections without the need for the T-meet. Further, if walls were moved, the gaps would automatically clean up and if a door block was dragged and dropped into the wall it would automatically orient itself to the angle of the wall and a gap would be automatically created (negating the need for trimming out unwanted sections).

In V8 there were some dramatic improvements to the Wall tool in that the same wall would appear differently depending on your viewing angle. The Wall-Opening tool was introduced to be able to have both 2D and 3D representations of the door. In plan/world/top view the walls would take on the appearance of the traditional 2D walls, but in 3D the walls would appear in a 3D opening.

Now with the release of the 1st Windows Product the whole procedure is automated (to a degree). You can drag a 3D window into a wall and automatically get both the 2D and 3D representation simply by changing views. The 1st Windows plug-in works seamlessly for windows but still needs to have 2D representations for doors.

If you create a layer for the 2D representation and a layer for the 3D representation, you can quickly turn those layers on or off depending on what you want to see. Gone are the days of creating gaps in walls manually – it can now be automated via simple drag and drop procedures.

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Blue Man in New York
This month I again had the pleasure of training a second group of students from Blue Man Productions, but this time in New York. This class was given in downtown Manhattan at a CompUSA training center. Lorry Henning of Blue Productions said about the course “I thought it was really well set up. I liked being able to work at my own pace and to take the materials with me so that I could continue to practice on my own. Having Rob in the room to help explain things out loud really served to compliment the CD-ROM tutor.

In the evening I had the pleasure of going on a tour of the Astor Place Theatre just off Broadway. I got just a small hint of all the planning that has to take place in order to produce high quality entertainment like this. No wonder they are using TurboCAD across all their departments to communicate set and prop designs.

HUD in Washington
On the way back from New York, I had the pleasure of training the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in the fine capital city of Washington DC. The course was split over two days and by the end of the second day the students were making great progress modifying their own drawings that that they will use in their work situation. They are using TurboCAD for internal facilities management and event planning.  RB.

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TurboCADCAM maintenance patch has already been released and can be downloaded from the following page.

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