Wikihouse
on my recent thought tangents. One since stumbling upon this site through a referring article. Went to download sketchup plugins for design work with template, but unless I were misunderstanding the plugins, felt that something were amiss in terms of ease of use in the design plugins. Sure, existing designs may be great for work already accomplished in terms of re duplication, but still felt that working towards the goal of creating new designs that weren't strongly resembling replicas of any other previous generation would require more intensive work. For example, creating customized ribs for different cross sectional design geometries requires extending the idea of s-joint placements (both mirrored and staggered) for the given rib stack, then determining the location of secondary and primary placements (which are specified according to general design principle...but neither stated in the clearest sense for instance...distribution of placements according to load/bearing weight principles). Generally other physical attributes of geometry could be more easily lifted and reapplied. In any event, the extension I were hoping in some future plugin, might allow, for instance, a user to work with a more crude 4 gon cross sectional shape, and then from this extracting cross sectional ribs which should form a basis for a structure (or at least part of this).
Or in other words, providing auto generation design tool, which allows users to work with simpler design elements and then having engineered this design to a wikihouse type structure. In this way the user doesn't have to become encumbered by the design elements which I would argue are complex enough to make assembly more chore driven. And eventually, I could see this extension working in the higher order of n gon cases and likewise, to three dimensions simply applying cross sectional analysis on an iterative basis along a given plane axis. Then the user could roughly play around with a given three dimensional design form and let the script engineer and approximate the design structure to wiki house specifications.
Cool site in any event.
on my recent thought tangents. One since stumbling upon this site through a referring article. Went to download sketchup plugins for design work with template, but unless I were misunderstanding the plugins, felt that something were amiss in terms of ease of use in the design plugins. Sure, existing designs may be great for work already accomplished in terms of re duplication, but still felt that working towards the goal of creating new designs that weren't strongly resembling replicas of any other previous generation would require more intensive work. For example, creating customized ribs for different cross sectional design geometries requires extending the idea of s-joint placements (both mirrored and staggered) for the given rib stack, then determining the location of secondary and primary placements (which are specified according to general design principle...but neither stated in the clearest sense for instance...distribution of placements according to load/bearing weight principles). Generally other physical attributes of geometry could be more easily lifted and reapplied. In any event, the extension I were hoping in some future plugin, might allow, for instance, a user to work with a more crude 4 gon cross sectional shape, and then from this extracting cross sectional ribs which should form a basis for a structure (or at least part of this).
Or in other words, providing auto generation design tool, which allows users to work with simpler design elements and then having engineered this design to a wikihouse type structure. In this way the user doesn't have to become encumbered by the design elements which I would argue are complex enough to make assembly more chore driven. And eventually, I could see this extension working in the higher order of n gon cases and likewise, to three dimensions simply applying cross sectional analysis on an iterative basis along a given plane axis. Then the user could roughly play around with a given three dimensional design form and let the script engineer and approximate the design structure to wiki house specifications.
Cool site in any event.
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