I was wondering if anyone has or could ( because I don't know how to ) share some stone hatch patterns -- Addy, J.P. SGT/USMC The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps! Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States, 1945
http://www.hatchpatterns.com there are some freeware and some available for purchase. Also there is a caldding company called Cultured Stone that produce a thing called STONECAD which as a load for free. but you have to register to download. or they can send you a CD www.culturedstone.com/technical/stonecad.asp Hope this helps alan http://www.cadalot.co.uk
Try www.compugraphx.com Watson makes some very good hatch patterns. Daryl CAD consultant and part-time Autodesk support for a reseller
Nothing I hate more in CAD plots than some clumsy hatching, except maybe the "Look Ma, I drew this entire set of drawings with one lineweight!" school of drafting. I actually rework the brick hatch patterns for specific jobs, and use associative hatch to size/space thinks like windows etc. like a dynamic coursing chart.
My hatches are generally designed to start at the lower left corner of a facade/roof, and you probably know that you get that to happen by changing the origin for before hatching. I work for all kinds, and probably could get away with doing less for the same fee, but take some pride in my drawings. That's exactly it. If you spec custom window and door sizes, you can tailor them to the coursing using associative hatch. Another use is for modeling masonry masses at the design stage. You can slide the lines up and down until it looks right, and lines up with a course. (I don't get to do much of that, to tell the truth, but did it recently on my Uxbridge project. There I also used it to find top of steel numbers for masonry supports.) In this case it's not the bricklayers you have to worry about. If you give them a set of numbers that makes sense to them (=easy to use), I generally find no problem in getting the to use them. (They are motivated.) The trouble is in getting the general, and the concrete and steel trades to take the numbers seriously, as the bricklayer has to generally work on top of what those other trades leave behind. What's an energy rim?
.... Never heard of it. It's "on edge" sitting on top of ceiling joists? Here they typically squish the roof insulation as it approaches the perimeter and use a 'baffle' to maintain clearance for roof space ventilation from the eaves. Plumbers do seem to get the "final edit", don't they?
University of Minnesota, Crookston? Where do you work? Minnesota would explain familiarity with good insulating techniques....
Batt is typical, but other stuff gets used too, and yes this is a problem area when working this way. Same as here ; )
