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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 . |