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Standard cornice
First lets get the cad drawing which have the section of the cornice and import it to DIALux evo
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Cad section for a cornice Follow the step below to import the cad drawing
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Make sure you are on the construction mode 2- Go to cad import 3- Click on import DWG 4- Adjust the unit to match the cad system 5- Move the cad to a convent location inside your space. You can also check other properties like changing the color of the layer or embeding the file in the project. When you select the embed the file you are actually saving the cad inside your project so you dont need the external cad reference any more
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Now the second step is to create a the object of the cornice Go to furniture and select Extrusion volume
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Follow the cad lines, when you finish all the points right click and select close polygon.
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Now you have created the section of the cornice in the plan view of DIALux, so the next step to rotate the object to be in the right position. Select the object and go to the position and rotate 90 in x axis
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you can move the object to right location, lets say for this example it is the ceiling of a room. You can move it easily in the side or front view
You can scale the object in the plan view to cover the required space 7
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Now you can copy and paste the object multiple times to cover all the boundary of the room, then move rotate and scale according to the required length, you can see form the plan view below
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While moving or rotating, if the any of objects moves in the z axis, you can easily adjust that by the awesome align tool Go to copy and arrange tool then select all the objects of cornice and click on light align top z then all objects will follow the most top object.
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There is now one step left to refine the shape of all corners There are two types of corners, inside and outside as you can see form below photo
You dont need to do anything about the inside corner, but the outside corner will look weird as you can see below
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The object after subtraction To cut the extra shape, follow the steps below I. Zoom to the outside corner
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Make sure the corner triangle covering the cornice, if not use copy and arrange tool to align it to the top of the cornice
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Select both object and go to copy and arrange tool, then select subtract tab as could be seen form below. From copy and arrange tool in the construction mode. 1) Select subtract tab 2) Select the object to remain 3) Make sure the object to remain in red color in 3d view 4) Click on subtract button
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