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New User Guide for Builders and Self Builders 03 Aug 2012 10:58 #339

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The following guide will give the Self Build user a list of tutorial videos that they will find of interest.

As a self builder, your use of Visual Building will depend upon the stage that you are at within your self build project. However, no matter what stage your project is at, you will still need to understand the fundamentals of Visual Building:

Introduction to the User Interface
Introduction to Basic Construction
The Project Tab
Wall placement using numerical input
Wall Editing Tools


Plot Evaluation
You may be at the stage where you are considering several different plots and want to see how to best fully utilise that plot. You can also see how to place multiple buildings within a plot. At this stage you should concentrate only the building shell, just to see how everything fits together, and so can ignore the internal building construction.

The following videos will help you in this stage:
Extend existing building
Stretch floorplan

Terrain Evaluation
If your plot is on a slope, you can examine the various possibilities of cutting into slopes or building up foundations.

The following videos will help you in this stage:
Split level floors
Terrain Features

Shadow Evaluation
Determine shadows cast from adjacent buildings and trees. This can be determined for different times of the year and geographic location.

Detailed Building Position and Facing
Based on the results of the previous stages, you can now start to plan your detailed building position, placement of doors and windows.

The following videos will help you in this stage:
Window Catalogue
Transferring Window Properties

Adding Roof
The following videos will help you in this stage:
Edit Roof Wood Construction
Creating a multi gabled roof

Specifying the Wall Construction
You may need to channge the wall specications and edit walls already placed:
The following videos will help you in this stage:
Multiple Wall Layers

Interior Planning and Design
Interior Design Kitchen
2D /3D Surface Area Edit
Placing stairs

Plan Layout
Elevation views / Plan layout

Printing Projects
Change 2D Wall Style
Printing

Exporting and Viewing 3D Buildings in Google Earth
Viewing in Google Earth

Shortcut Keys


You should also refer to the updated pdf documentation .
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