On 29.04.17 18:43, Mark Trickett via luv-main wrote:
> Just watch what you are doing with care, and it can do remarkable
> things. One of the critical things is to do the detail design in your
> head first, cladding thicknesses, fasteners, joints, particularly the
> complex ones. If you can envisage the detail of the build in your
> head, then you can get that onto paper somehow. I did drafting as part
> of a Mechanical Engineering degree. Putting in the detail is where you
> find out whether the drawing is correct and functional.

Yes, you've hit the nail on the head there. I'd laboriously drawn it up
on graph paper, but with strawbale-unit dimensions, and with a great fat
strawbale skin. I'm too old to do another DIY owner-builder build, and
that's the only way that strawbale is viable. Now it's back to standard
building units and materials.

So rather than do it again with pencil & paper, postscript allows me to
automate detail right down to double studs around wall openings - while
counting how many end up being used. Oh-oh, just remembered that the
cladding comes in 1200 mm wide sheets - so replace the 450 mm stud
spacing (one variable) and the stud_wall procedure moves the studs to
sheet edges and centres.

OK, there's a slow initial primitive-building & tweaking phase, but
after that it should fly - in a most flexible folding swiss army knife
fashion.

Add vim folding markers in the comments, and I can have folding text in
my manually generated postscript file. A good overview and rapid
navigation both boost productivity.

Thanks for the encouragement.

Erik

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