(And, aren’t we all?) (Make it so, Number One.) (But my friends call me Number Two.) It has that sort-of 1980s-Star-Trek:-The-Next-Generation look I’m after. LivingRoom06.png is the surprisingly appealing result (brick notwithstanding). Fixed the boo-boos I mentioned in my last post, then rendered again. But left them there to look all uniformly lit up and stuff like that which the official “LED Strip Light” does not manage to do. On a hunch, I selected all my original squished fluorescents and chose “Lights Off” from the context menu. I’m so ashamed.Įvery time I think I’m duh-uh-uh-uh-uhn…I try one more thing.Īnd this time I discovered root cause! It’s the friggin’ fluorescents. As easy-breezy as graphite-on-yellow trash paper, constrained only by the geometry of the object in which it’s placed, and the imagination of the architect.Ĭonrad, thanks, but, um, I lied again. Ironic that in my misspent, pencil-on-vellum, architect youth, if I designed something that was impossible to build, my go-to, tension-diffusing, self-effacing jobsite joke when talking to the superintendent was, “Well, I don’t know why it’s so hard for you to BUILD it was real easy for me to DRAW.” Then everyone belly-laughs, while the architect escapes getting punched out.Ĭadsoft: With Envisioneer, it’s too often the opposite: Easy to build, hard to draw. Please provide a usable, Dee-Zine-friendly, LED tape. Fine for cove lights or under-cabinet lights, maybe. “11w LED Strip Light 24 inch” is better than nothing, which is what Env 15 ships with.
Sure would be easier for me to forget all this Dee-Zine stuff, rotate that mantle back to orthogonal, and calculate its outside dimensions on a 2′ module for the light strip I want to recess an inch or so back from its edge.
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And Gad-forbid if I want to make any adjustments after I see the render!įlashback: In the late 1990s, when I was IT Director of a major Houston TX architecture firm I worked for at the time, pushing them to adopt then-nascent 3D CAD, the designers’ number one objection was that they didn’t want software to dictate what they could envision (small ‘e’).įlashforward (and poetic justice): 30-ish years later, that’s exactly the conundrum that ex-architect-now-IT-consultant me is faced with…while using a 2020 design tool named Envisioneer (capital ‘E’)! I still have a road ahead to get this mantle design done the way I Envisioned it. (All of which probably taking almost as long as it took to write this post! But it’s worth the investment at least if Cadsoft is listening.) And will likely have to be revised a few times after I see the render and view from more viewpoints. And the non-orthogonal mantle wraps around 3 sides of the chimney.
If they were true “Linear Light Sources” like I’ve been requesting, they would.īut since they’re multiple, equally-spaced, point light sources within a narrow rectangular outline, and 24″ long, like Cadsoft’s LED strip light imitations-within-the-limitations of Env 15, and mostly unaware of their virtual surrounding objects, I will need to calculate point light locations and add additional point light sources as needed for light strips on each of the irregular sides. When finished, rotate it back where I want it.īut what if…just what if…I could DRAW the light strip into my model and have it do what the FIXTURE needs to do to work with MY model? And have it adjust as I adjust the size and rotation of the mantel object? I can do it eventually by customizing the strip light to fit the rectangle, rotated back to orthogonal temporarily for convenience in placement. Need to see the render.Īnd upon whose upper face I want to add recessed strip LEDs behind a frosted lens to wash the chimney and tchotchkes placed on the mantle.īut I doubt I’ll ever get “11w LED Strip Light 24 inch” to follow my Dee-Zine. Then stretched, rotated, shrunk, stretched again, rotated again…until I got it…ermmm…maybe about right. Then rotated it something degrees off the orthogonal chimney (see attachment). In my case, I have created a rectangular Floor Surface, elevated it and used it as a fireplace mantel in my model. Stretch them, curve them, add nodes, convert them to surfaces…basically, emulate digitally what we could do with a roll of analog LED tape. It’s become really obvious as I’ve worked with “11w LED Strip Light 24 inch” that we need to be able to do all the things with LED light strips that we do with other objects. And hopefully now resolved, as mine appears to be. Thanks, Conrad! And this was just the sequel of the “Linear Light Source” topic, which I did not know at the time I’d not be able to continue to post to due to forum authentication problems also reported by others.
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