hings using BIM AEC oriented apps (only 3 around, the ones already mentioned). Keep in mind that GH is a graphical editor and Rhino is NOT an AEC BIM app nor it would ever be.…
e buttons that need pressing and then call Button.PerformClick() on them. But that requires a .NET exe.
I think you're out of luck in this case, there do exist automation tools on Windows that can start apps and press certain buttons, but I do not know which ones are good and which ones can be controlled via command-line arguments.…
Added by David Rutten at 6:16am on August 24, 2014
te and anything you can remove is a benefit (I also find it looks much better, but this is personal taste).
Of course, there are far fewer things going on at the screen on a phone than in a computer. It's very possible this doesn't translate well into an interface for a software like Rhino. I've also had no problems using Windows 8 and a few simple 'metro apps' but these are simple apps that don't compare the complexity of CAD software.
Even Microsoft hasn't gone full metro in the desktop. They did however remove a lot of superfluous shadows, bevels and effects and it looks much better than in Windows 7 in my opinion.
In every new version of Windows I always resented they just added new effects and decorations to the UI without adding much to usability and only slowing down the system. I've found it strange that for the first time that I think they are moving in the right direction Microsoft receives the biggest backlash ever for it. Apparently I have a very heterodox view on good UI and when people were complaining on the superfluous decorations of previous windows installments they didn't really mean it, they just had an axe to grind with the company.…
ystem so screen objects get scaled properly:
http://www.danantonielli.com/adobe-app-scaling-on-high-dpi-displays-fix/
The tweak requires adding a line to the Registry and then adding a text file named <application exe file name>.exe.manifest to each directory containing the executable program you want to have re-scaled. The contents of the manifest.txt file are shown here:
http://www.danantonielli.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/manifest.txt
Overall this looks pretty simple to do. The feedback seems to all be positive. Looks like it's time to get out the old checkbook.....…
ere (http://blog.maideinc.com/). I also posted up our future designs to bring over commands from Rhino to the iPad, so you can customize your own menu's.
Let me know if you guys have any feedback on how we planned to do it.
Cheers,
Oleg.
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Added by Oleg Kostour at 3:53pm on December 24, 2011
, HVAC, blah blah).
BIM is NOT a parametric process at least having in mind graphical editors the likes of GH (or stuff the likes of Generative Components): it's a holistic data management approach. Some concepts used in BIM apps (for instance in AECOSim etc) the likes of "walls"/"openings" etc are "parametric" in the sense that allow auto perforation of this with that. On the other hand AECOSim is feature driven (since Microstation works in that "mode" as well) ... a thing that complex things even more with regard what is actually "parametric" and what not.
BIM is as good as the meta data structure is (especially the spec related aspect - Goggle MasterFormat and the likes). BIM AEC apps are notoriously incapable to work (without a lot of lines of code) with proper RDBMS. On the other hand Bentley Systems ProjectWise ... well ... but that's another animal (by no means a topic for the inexperienced).
In descending order or importance a contemporary AEC practice should use:
1. A general information "controller" like ProjectWise (who said/did what/when/why).
2. A Specs (say CSI - not the TV soap opera) management app.
3. Several Meta data RDBMS.
4. A BIM suite of apps.
5. Optionally some parametric thingy.
PS: For AEC ... when inviting the parametric thingy to the party you have only 2 options:
ProjectWise + AECOSim + Generative Ciomponents (my choice).
?? + Revit + Dynamo.
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simple, there are many symetries in 3 main planes. So I used arcs rotated 45° from the main planes and I generate a pentagon which was mirrored and rotated many times.
At the end there are 24 pentagons and 8 hexagons so 32 faces, 54 points/vertex and 84 edges.
It could generate some others tessalation styles
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paths for the 93 line segments in my example - all counter-clockwise around each hexagon:
(re-posted; more explicit with three colors instead of two) …
Added by Joseph Oster at 11:45am on October 31, 2017