Custom Block Editor‌ Sample Clauses

Custom Block Editor‌. The Custom Block Editor is a key component of VisualDOE program that allows you to create blocks of special shapes or blocks or with unusual zoning configurations. All blocks, including custom blocks, are a collection of rooms that have certain properties in common, including the floor-to-floor height, number of floors (floor multiplier in DOE-2 terms), the vertical position (height above the ground), roof construction, ceiling construction and floor construction. You can think of a block as a typical floor in the building, although this is somewhat of a simplification. There are only a few rules. Custom blocks require a little more work to create than standard block shapes, but they enable you to model buildings with extremely complex shapes. Standard blocks have been a feature of VisualDOE since version 2.0 was first released in early 1996. The custom block was added later to enable you to model almost any building shape or zoning configuration. You create a custom block by dropping the custom block icon (hexagon) on the plan view. After a custom block is created, it can be subsequently edited by choosing Edit | Custom Block. You create custom blocks by adding rooms to your model one at a time. You can draw rooms using either the polygon tool or the rectangle tool. You can also enter the coordinates of the vertices that define the room. Finally, you can import polygons from an external DXF file that you can create with your CADD program. Once you have created one or more rooms you can use other tools to modify them. Within the rooms you can position the daylight reference points. You can select a vertex and drag it to a different position. You can select two adjacent rooms and combine them into a single room. And, you can select and delete a room, as long as you do not violate the construction rules. See the topic on the custom block toolbar for more information. You create a custom block by dropping the custom block icon (hexagon) on the plan views. After a custom block is created, it can be subsequently edited by choosing Edit | Custom Block. You can also convert a standard block to a custom block by selecting it and choosing Edit | Custom Block. When a standard block has been converted to a custom block, you can merge rooms, delete rooms, relocate vertices, and perform other custom block functions. Once converted, however, you loose the convenience of being able to change the overall dimensions of the block and have all the rooms change shape accordin...