Dear Quentin,
Depthmap normally does not understand circles. This will happen even if
you have drawn your layouts in AutoCad. The best thing is to replace your
circles with polygons. You may have as many edges as you want and this
will produce results that visually look like circles and have no apparent
effect on the VGA analysis. It is just a matter of resolution and you
won't have a 100% resolution anyway in your VGA analysis because the
resolution is determined by the grid distance you have set.
I hope this has helped.
Best regards,
Kinda
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Kinda Al_Sayed
Teaching Fellow MSc Advanced Architectural Studies
Tutor MSc Adaptive Architecture and Computation
UCL Bartlett School of Graduate Studies
1-19 Torrington Place
London WC1E 7HB
> Dear all,
>
> I'm currently struggling with Depthmap (version 10.08). I mostly use it to
> do VGA analysis within buildings. Usually I draw my plans using Adobe
> Illustrator and export the final result in a dxf file. The buildings I'm
> working on have a fair amount of columns.
>
> Unfortunately, when I import the dxf file in Depthmap, the columns
> (basically all the circles that I've drawn in Illustrator) are simply
> neither visible on the screen, nor taken into account by the VGA . If I
> replace them by squares, it works perfectly but I'd rather have the
> circles.
>
> Maybe it has something to do with Illustrator because before, I was using
> AutoCAD but I don't have it with me for the following months. So, if
> someone could be of any help, I'd really appreciate it !
>
> Thank you very much in advance,
>
> Quentin
>
>
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