Making leaf-like city layout plan

[eldon]

To help you envisage the required scale on paper, here is a suggestion.

[ReMark]

Mir: How is your small town layout coming along?

[Mir Ali]

Mir: How is your small town layout coming along?

 

Thank you sir. I've been actually busy with some other assignments and stuff. I would to like learn something though. How do i change the areas units from sq.ft to acres in properties panels?

[ReMark]

You can use this lisp routine.

 

DDArea.lsp.txt

 

Download and remove the ".txt" at the end of the file name before loading the routine.

[Mir Ali]

Thank you so much ReMark ! you rock sir.

[ReMark]

I only provided you with a copy of a lisp routine. I did not write the routine nor was I the first person here at CADTutor to make the routine available to other forum members.

[Mir Ali]

I've come up, yet again, with this irritating obstacle in run of drafting. As i was going for placement of plots and amenities, i can't seem to align the plots along a line...

[Mir Ali]

Never mind fellas ! i figured it out by setting out the shape along the angle ! thank you

[ReMark]

One option would be turn use the SNAPANG command to set your crosshairs at the same angle as the line you are working with. Another option would be to rotate your UCS to match the angle of the line. A third option would be to use the ALIGN command to align the objects with a particular line in your drawing. Keep in mind that the ALIGN command gives the user the option to scale or not to scale aligned objects. In your case you would NOT scale the objects. Is that enough choices for you because there are at least one, maybe even, two more ways to accomplish the same task.

[eldon]

Another way is to use Polar Tracking.

[Mir Ali]

Thank you so much for your interest! i would like to learn one more thing, i have to keep a check on the percentage of roads that i provide in the design, would like to a way to measure the total area taken by them.

[ReMark]

Well the area command will give you one part of what you need. The other (percentage) you'll just have to do the math.

[Mir Ali]

But the area command won't allow me to take measurement along the curve. I tried using ddarea command but not use because the desired area is not in the shape of an object.

[Mir Ali]

Hi everyone! I need to provide some apartment buildings in my project, I'll appreciate if someone could help me with blocks of these. I want to provide apartments with floor area of 240 sq.yds and 120 sq.yds

[ReMark]

I think you would be better off creating them yourself. You make one block for each then populate your drawing with them.

[Mir Ali]

I think you would be better off creating them yourself. You make one block for each then populate your drawing with them.

 

ReMark, i would love to but the thing is, i've little knowledge about the building's floor plans as i am a student of Urban Planning. I would really appreciate if someone could provide me these. Besides the 2D plans aren't that difficult to work with, i've googled a little but came up with some detailed drawings of the buildings.

[ReMark]

Are the building going on your master plan for the leaf-like city? If so, they do not have to be detailed at all. All you would need are some boxes grouped in various arrangements to represent the apartment complexes.

 

Here's an idea. See the apartment complex below? Trace the outline of it and make that your first block. Mirror it the tracing and make that your second block. Divide the complex in half, for smaller units, and make blocks of both halves. Now you have four blocks.

 

[Mir Ali]

I've traced the image that you have posted. And the result is:

 

I believe there are going to be measurement problems, i am working in architectural units. With 1:1, besides, as i said earlier that i've little experience with drafting, i can't seem to understand that floor plan. Yes i will be pasting the apartments line-structure on the plan that i've been working on. Thanks!

[ReMark]

I don't understand why you would need a floor plan for an apartment complex when designing the layout of a small town/city. I would think that all you would need is the gross footprint of the building and not a "detailed" layout of the individual apartments. You'll need to come up with a better explanation of what you are doing and why you are doing it.

[Mir Ali]

Well yeah, ReMark, you are right. I dont need a detailed layout plan rather i just need a birds-view of the apartment buildings. Better still i can just assign the space for apartments as "space for apartments, lol. Basically i am not required to provide for the layout plan of the proposed buildings, just allotting the space would suffice. I want to know other possibilities within 2D drafting to make the plan a little detailed.