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RailClone => RailClone Pro (*) => Topic started by: Sketchrender on March 04, 2015, 04:06:04 PM

Title: Railclone Pro brise soleil Help
Post by: Sketchrender on March 04, 2015, 04:06:04 PM
Hi

I am new to RC Pro.
I have a curved building , and need to place  brise soleil along it.
I can place the one I want but I am having trouble adjust the width of BS off the Facade.
Can somebody help Please.

Thank you

Philip

Title: Re: Railclone Pro brise soleil Help
Post by: Paul Roberts on March 04, 2015, 04:33:36 PM
Hi Phillip,

Thanks for contacting us. I hope you are finding RailClone useful. You may find the generator's Y Offset property useful for adjusting a style in relation to its base spline. To edit it try the following:


I hope that helps, if you're able to provide more details about the issues you are encountering or a sample file that would help me to diagnose the problem, I'd be happy to help further.

Many thanks,

Paul
Title: Re: Railclone Pro brise soleil Help
Post by: Sketchrender on March 04, 2015, 05:44:35 PM
Thank you

I am right in thinking and I have played with it, but that just offsets the BS off the wall.
The default BS is 600mm say , I want for example a 2.4m deep BS, with about 16 fins angled?
Is this possible?

Thank you

Phil
Title: Re: Railclone Pro brise soleil Help
Post by: Paul Roberts on March 04, 2015, 07:06:11 PM
Hi Phil,

Thanks for clarifying. Are you using the Brise from our libraries? If so I'm afraid they are all a fixed size, created using an L1S generator.

You have two options if you want to create a larger version. Either extract and remodel the geometry so that it's 2.4m wide, or create a more complex style that's fully adjustable. The first option is the simplist if you're new to RailClone. To do this:


A fully adjustable style takes a little more work and familiarity with RailClone. If you wanted to take a look at how this might be done, I've converted the same style as an example. To start with, instead of enlarging the geometry, break it into smaller pieces like this:

(http://lonelymonk.com/forum_images/ec3b5b62d879407ba600bdf14e891054.jpg)

These pieces can then be reconstructed using RailClone using A2S arrays. In the attached example I've used two arrays - one for the fins and one for the brackets. It is often a lot easier to break down a style into multiple arrays rather than try and fit it into just one.

(http://lonelymonk.com/forum_images/8bc22c4591444da2a9330a126dba6069.jpg)

In addition to the standard inputs, this style uses a couple of useful tricks:


I hope this helps, I've included both examples in the attached file. Please let me know if you have further questions.

Kind regards,

Paul
Title: Re: Railclone Pro brise soleil Help
Post by: Sketchrender on March 05, 2015, 09:25:26 AM
Paul

Thank you very much, the file you attached is the beta version I think.
I am on the 2.3.4, could you re save it as my version as it tells me to get the latest version.

I only purchased it the other day so it should be the latest build, but not the beta.
There is no way of adding to the seed Library file is there?

Copy an existing element and changing the size ect?
Thank you

phil

Title: Re: Railclone Pro brise soleil Help
Post by: Paul Roberts on March 05, 2015, 12:03:49 PM
Hi Phil,

My apologies, please find attached a file that should open in your version.

We do not recommend editing the library files directly as your changes will be overwritten when installing an upgrade. However it is possible to copy the files to a new locations to create a duplicate, and edit them. Once you've copied the files, add the new location to the library browser by following these steps:

You can read more about customising the library in the documentation here.

I hope that helps, please let me know if you have further questions.

Cheers,

Paul