Depending of the roof design, sometimes is necessary to align the cladding lines: Just select the node in the middle of the covering and drag it to align.
The Roof Covering can display different details in plan views (cladding, soffits, flashings, gutters, etc.) depending on its location relative to the current storey. For instance, in the covering’s Home Story, you might want to show all details. When the current plan view lies above the roof covering’s home storey, you probably don’t want to
The plan view symbol of the Cadimage Wall Covering can show or hide trims and sills. If you don’t want to show these items on a particular covering, go to the Display Options > Plan View Symbol page and turn them off.
In plan view a wall can be set to visible on all relevant stories. For each storey, the wall will display with the doors and windows that belong to that storey. Other openings will not be shown. The wall covering will match the wall symbol, and will show only the openings that belong to the
The Coverings tool for V16 has been updated & released as a hotfix for V16 This fix includes a lot of elements hidden from the user interface… but the end result is that the Coverings tool is a lot more stable We recommend you download & install the update for a better experience with the
The Cadimage Roof Covering can add profiled claddings, gutters + downpipes, soffits, edge boards and flashings to an ArchiCAD roof. Sometimes you may want the ridge and barge flashings to differ (say a tiled hip with a folded metal ridge flashing). At other times you may want the rib and hip flashings to match (both
Use the dynamic hotspot in the middle of the roof covering to align claddings on different roof planes. Click to select one of the roof coverings. A dynamic hotspot will appear at the ‘center’ of the polygon. Click on the hotspot, and choose the last option in the Pet Palette. Move the hotspot to align
With the new interface for V16 a few items have been moved to a new location One of these is the Cladding Reference Origin which you will be familiar with in V14 and V15: This is still in the Cladding Settings but now contained within the drop down menu to its own settings page: There
When using Cadimage Roof Coverings, you can edit the edge type for each edge of the roof with a handy little dynamic hotspot. Pull the hotspot up (270) to change to an Apron Edge. Pull it down (90) to create a Barge Edge. Pull it Over the roof (0) to create a Standard (Hip /
When using Cadimage Coverings with renovations, demolished windows or doors will be excluded from any Coverings attached to Existing Walls. If you want to add Coverings to the Existing building also, you need to set the covering to be demolished for it to include the Demolished openings and exclude the New openings. Walls can have