[Doug McLean]

Yeah, I think I will.

[Doug McLean]

Thanks @David Cutler .

It’s always fun to co-host the MCR.

Vince has really pushed the envelope in my opinion. Using the colour codes with another data table is brilliant.

[Doug McLean]

We do seem to get the fun jobs at Towne Millwork…lol

Helical stairs give Revu fits.

You cannot take a Polylength tool, apply a curve, and then give it a slope. Revu won’t let you as it grey’s out the tool.

As a Joiner we learn how to do this math in the 3rd year of our Apprenticeship, so I know the math.

Luckily, I don’t have to figure out the total rise and total run because I can just take those measurements.

@Vince hit it dead on, because I’m using Excel to do all the math here.

I may post the finished marked up page later.

[Doug McLean]

Doing a helix is one of the most challenging aspects of Millwork (or Architectural Metalwork).
Wood doesn’t like to twist. You can if you steam it, but even that posts its own challenges.

Designers like to think that this stuff is easy, but its not. It’s also expensive, because it takes a skilled tradesman to actually pull this off.

Back in the day, they would just sketch this out, and then a Finish Carpenter would lay these out on site and just start making it happen. There are tricks to doing these things. In todays world, with having to submit shop drawings for everything and CNC’ing parts, it actually makes it a bit harder.

Revit, ArchiCAD, Soildworks… they’re all awesome, but people have to try and build this stuff that designers are coming up with. It’s fun, but also challenging at the same time

[Doug McLean]

This is what the rendering looks like

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[Doug McLean]

Holiday here in Canada too.

Family Day in most of the country

[Doug McLean]

Try the Export to Word function.

Might work better

[Doug McLean]

Thanks Vince. (from Danna too!) (our other Estimator)
That worked

[Doug McLean]

I do have to go back and look at that trick you showed on how to search for specific elevation callouts.

[Doug McLean]

every so often, you find someone doing something that you didn’t know could be done.

Even advanced users don’t know all the little tricks

[Doug McLean]

I did think about making a new blank page, taking a snapshot and then rotating the snapshot on the blank page.
I shouldn’t have to do that though.

[Doug McLean]

I’m sure we’ll be able to post pictures of this one as it will be in a public space

[Doug McLean]

The waste is really in the core, IF you do it properly.

We can lay out the core in such a manner that we can keep waste down, but that all does depend on the veneer species.

What we’ll do is lay out the veneer on the parallelogram, so when we bend it all lines up nicely.

[Doug McLean]

Waste is a LOT higher. You start dealing with curved parallelograms

[Doug McLean]

About all I can say is that this is in a mall.