Working with Plies

Tom Foster
Tom Foster
edited April 24 in BricsCAD BIM

Inspired by

https://forum.bricsys.com/discussion/40322/connect-individual-plies

Is that anything like the following?

In SR91962 (2019, on v19.2.07) I wrote:
"What is a recommended method for adjusting Compositions' Plies at say a wall/roof slab junction, where the angle between the slabs is not 90o?

It's recommended to use Push Pull but that operates perp to the selected face, with result like 300-8.jpg attached.

DMEXTRUDE>Direction>2 points works but is laborious and makes only a parallel-edged push-back, not of the full non-parallel section of the solid, leaving un-push-backed wedges at the end(s)."

91962-300-8.JPG

This was accepted as a bug, and fixed in v21.2.02. Can anyone check - I don't have that ability at the moment.
In that SR, BIMDECOMPOSE was discussed as a workaround - decompose the Composition into individual plies within a Block, where with Bedit or Refedit, the off-angle ply junctions work properly with Push-Pull, as well as e.g. DMEXTRUDE>Direction>2 points. The question was - can the decomposed plies then be reassembled into a Composition? The answer was 'No plans for now'.

Comments

  • LucasRochaLR
    LucasRochaLR

    Does the method explained there fit your workflow?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBJu9Sgu-jE&list=PLONdQc9bizsfcLC_6bdKSiZgwbdbGFgd5&index=13

  • Tom Foster
    Tom Foster
    edited 3:26PM

    That's the standard, rectilinear case, where push-pulling plies individually, and propagating them, works as intended.
    My first Q was about non-rectilinear situations, which are definitely not uncommon - for example a sloping roof plane meeting a wall. My attached pic shows what happens - or used to happen until fixed in v21.2.02? and I was seeking confirmation it now works for that common non-rectilinear case.

    Beyond that, a second Q in that SR conversation, I asked about Propagate - whether all the elements have to be identical - does Propagate still work when the principle and the materials are same but e.g. slab thickness differs. Does Propagate recognise same topography, or only literal identicality? (in a way, topography is actually easier to encode and recognise, than identicality).

    Applying that second Q to the non-rectilinear case, I've no doubt that Propagate would recognise say a 25o pitch roof meeting a wall, and propagate that. But what about same roof at say 30o pitch meeting same wall? Again, same topography, different identicality. That was a Feature Request, which I doubt has been actioned.

    I'm not able to check these at present, but they are relevant to the Connect Individual Plies question.