multi-cladding in one single wall

Two Things:

1. sorry if I am perceived as lazy, but where is Matthew's 'fix'. I knowsomeone who's problem could be solved if I found it.

2. Cadimage Accessory Tool is very interesting when it comes to cladding walls. Basically it creates a Pressure Equalized Rainsreen Wall Assembly

cf. http://www.homeenergy.org/archive/hem.dis.anl.gov/eehem/99/991108.html

It lacks the parameters to detail the materials between the structural wall and the outside finish, but as many jurisdictions in Canada are looking at this solution and some - like British Columbia - are making it mandatory, the Accessory tool shouldn't be overlooked.

For the Wall Section detailer the Accessory tool affords you the advantage of creating a modeled wall where components of the assembly terminate at different heights. And thuis can be done without excessive transofrmation of the wall section from live model view to static 2D drawing. Cladding can extend below the floor line and terminate at the soffit. Editing the Wall Cladding is done graphically.

Have alook at it and keep encouraging Tony Krepler and company to add some more functionality to it. In my estimation it has great potential to stop being strictly a visualization tool and cross over into the realm of being the detailer's 'must-have accessory'.

The Roffing accessory doesn't seem to work all that well for asphalt shingled roofs - too many pieces of flashing and support that can't be turned off, but again it ismiles ahead of anything I've come across. Until the ArchiCAD wall can understand internally the difference between a ridge and a valley on a pitched roof assembly, the modeling of a roof for construction purposes is a daunting thing.