interiorcad 2012 - Custom Part Path Operations

interiorcad 2012 - Custom Part Path Operations

Introduction

Basically, Custom Parts consist of extrudes. Since this means it is a path object, the path can be altered after the object's creation.

Path Editing

A double click can be used to edit the path:

Tools like fillet and chamfer can be used to edit the path:

Weiler Operations

Thanks to the excellent 3D capabilities of Vectorworks 2012, 2D objects can be drawn and placed in 3D easily. Such objects can then be used to create cutouts:

Of course such operations can be used while editing the path also.

Advanced Weiler Operations

Lines can be used to bisect a Custom Part. The resulting objects are two independent Custom Parts:

And finally, Custom Parts can be used to clip each other:

Unsupported Weiler Operations

Weiler operations creating holes in a Custom Part are currently not permitted, and thus rejected:

Conclusion

The Custom Part is based on an extruded path. The path can be edited using techniques of Vectorworks. Still, the Custom Part PIO looks like an ordinary 3D object of Vectorworks. What's still missing are the features that make such objects interiorcad objects. We will shed a little more light on this later.