Trying to figure out what the best way of making a menu that allows me to alter master drawings. We typically only do flat 2d drawings of PVC Panels that can have windows, zips, turn buttons etc. These all typically follow the same rules only thing that really changes is the height and width along side a numerical value of how many zips, windows and so on that would fit with in the height and width. Having trouble finding extensions that help with this, will i need to create something from scratch or potentially retrofit current available extensions.
What i mean is we have the PVC panel itself, with a window cut out, Bottom bar for weight is always a 25mm hem, eyelets around the sides are usually within a 270-330mm gaps just depending on how the line up with other panels and finally strapping which is played around 1 every meter.
Is it the case with dynamic components make one full panel and edit it from that point or have each of the processes as separate parts and add them together?
You’ll need to split the thing into separate component parts but it can be treated as a single object. Not exactly the same thing but here’s an example. The box is made of of the five components typical of a drawer box and they are collected together into a nested component. Changing the dimensions scales some parts and moves others to make the drawer box conform.
Look at the shipped Dynamic Components in the Dynamic Components Training collection to learn how the different functions work.
You’ll have to create the dynamic component with different elements of the panel, for example there are parts where you can change the width but the height is a fixed value and viceversa, you’ll have to set those values for every piece of the window, after doing that you can create a dropdown menu to change the size of the window keeping the width or height of the pieces of it.
Do remember that resizing is a scaling operation. If you have holes through the objects, those holes will be scaled as well. Might turn into ellipses orat least they will become larger or smaller.
FWIW, in my drawer box component, the bottom fix dimension fields are for information out and not for input. You can do the same sort of thing and then use SketchUp’s report generator to gather that information from all of the panels in your model if you need.
