Surveyed Room Tool Commands – ARCHLine.XP

The reconstruction tool lets you create the layout of an existing building from a few information gathered in the field. The layout will consist of a number of rooms which are a special kind of 2D groups.

ROOM

ROOM name {<wall> | CHAIN chain } ENTER

It creates a room with the selected lines acting as the walls of the room. (They have to form a closed boundary.) The program automatically selects the chain if you use the CHAIN keyword. The name and the area of the room will be placed on the drawing.

name (str): the name of the newly created room

wall (obj): a line which will be a wall of the room

chain (obj): the chain which will be the boundary of the room

OUT

ROOM OUT {<wall> | CHAIN chain } ENTER

This command turns the selected lines into an outer wall of a room.

wall (obj): a line which will be a wall of the room

chain (obj): the chain which will be the boundary of the room

ROOM EXPLODE

ROOM EXPLODE {room | ALL}

This command unlinks the selected room (or all if the ALL keyword is used). This means the former room turns into a normal 2D group, it loses all of its room specialties.

room (obj): the room to be unlinked

ROOM DIAGONAL

This command lets you define the exact length of the not measured walls of the room. You can enter measured lengths and the program computes the missing data by using the triangular method. A dialog helps you to select the options.

ROOM DEFHOTSPOT

ROOM DEFHOTSPOT room coord1 coord2 //dialog// //dialog//

This command creates a hotspot in the selected room. The place is located as one vertex of a triangle. The base line is selected by its two endpoints, end the place of the third vertex is computed from the distances measured from the endpoints. These can be entered in dialogs.

room (obj): the room to add a hotspot to

coord1, coord2 (point): the endpoints of the triangle's base line

ROOM ADDNODE

ROOM ADDNODE <wall {coord | SPOLYGON st_point $polyline_def }> ENTER

It adds a new node to the selected wall of a room. By using the option SPOLYGON you can add a whole polyline.

wall (obj): the wall to be modified

coord (point): the location of the new node

st_point (point): start point of the polyline

$polyline_def$: definition of a polyline. See it in the chapter Definitions.

ROOM MOVENODE

ROOM MOVENODE <node coord> ENTER

It moves the selected node to another position.

node (obj): the node to be shifted

coord (point): the new place of the node

ROOM DELETENODE

ROOM DELETENODE <node> ENTER

It deletes the selected node.

node (obj): the node to be deleted

ROOM LENGTH

ROOM LENGTH <wall length> ENTER

This command changes the selected wall's length. The node which is closer to the selecting point will be moved.

wall (obj): the wall to be changed

length (real): the new length

ROOM ARC

ROOM ARC <[{RADIUS rad | DIAMETER dia}] node>

It creates a fillet at the selected node with the given radius (or diameter).

rad (real): the radius of the fillet arc

dia (real): the diameter of the fillet arc

node (obj): the node to create the fillet by it

ROOM CPOINT

ROOM CPOINT <wall {coord|{RADIUS rad|DIAMETER dia| PERIMETER per|ARC height} sel_point}}> ENTER

It creates a curved wall from a straight one. The two endpoints of the arc are the former endpoints and the arc can be defined with one point of its circumference or with the arc's radius, diameter, perimeter or height. In the latter cases the arc from the two possible is selected by a nearby.

wall (obj): the wall to be transformed

coord (point): a point on the arc's circumference

rad (real): the radius of the arc

dia (real): the diameter of the arc

per (real): the perimeter of the arc

height (real): the height of the arc

sel_point (point): from the two possible arcs the one will be selected which has the nearest point to this parameter

ROOM SHIFT

ROOM SHIFT <wall> ENTER

It creates a straight wall from a curved one.

wall (obj): the circular wall to be straightened

ROOM CONNECT

ROOM CONNECT wall1 wall2

This command unifies two rooms along the two selected walls. The rooms can be anywhere on the drawing but the walls should be equally in length. The room selected second will be deleted and the one selected first will be changed.

wall1 (obj): wall of the first room

wall2 (obj): wall of the second room

ROOM SLICE

ROOM SLICE thickness <room node1 [BACKWARD] node2 name ang pos> ENTER

This command divides the selected room into two parts with an imaginary straight wall. (This means no new object will be created.) The BACKWARD key is used for switching between on which side of the reference line the wall will be.

thickness (real): the thickness of the imaginary wall

room (obj): the room to be divided

node1, node2 (point): the endpoints of the wall

name (str): name of the new room

ang (real): angle of the text's direction

pos (point): the location of the new room's name and are text

ROOM JOIN

ROOM JOIN <door1 door2 //dialog//> ENTER

This command connects two rooms. The connecting is made by a door which is inserted into both rooms but which is one door in fact. The room which contains the door selected second will be moved to create a parallel connection between the two rooms. The thickness of the separating wall can be defined in a dialog.

door1, door2 (obj): the two instances of the door between the two adjacent rooms

ROOM HOTSPOT

ROOM HOTSPOT hp1_rem hp1_mov length1 hp2_mov length2 hp2_rem hp3_mov length3 hp4_mov length4

This command moves a room to its right place relative to another. The place is located by using measured lengths between hotspots in both rooms. You need at least two in both. You select the hotspots and enter the distances between them which is defined via measuring them in the building and the program automatically computes the right position of the room selected as 'moving'.

hp1_rem, hp2_rem (obj): hotspots in the room which remains at place

hp1_mov, hp2_mov, hp3_mov, hp4_mov (obj): hotspots in the 'moving' room (hp1_mov can be identically to hp3_mov and hp2_mov does so with hp4_mov)

length1, length2, length3, length4 (real): the distance between the two actual hotspots

ROOM NAME

ROOM NAME <room ang [AREA] pos> ENTER

It places the name (and the area if the AREA keyword is used) of the room on the drawing.

room (obj): the room to work with it

ang (real): the angle of the text's direction

pos (point): location of the texts

ROOM TRIANGLE

ROOM TRIANGLE <room coord> ENTER

It creates the triangular partition of the selected room and places a short sum of it on the drawing.

room (obj): the room to create its triangular partition

coord (point): the position of the summary

ROOM EXTERNAL

ROOM EXTERNAL //dialog// [<room>] ENTER

This command creates the outer walls of the selected rooms. The thickness of the outer wall can be defined in a dialogbox. When no room is selected the walls will be created to all of the rooms of the drawing. The walls won't be part of the room's group they form another with a special name, so they can be moved or deleted manually.

room (obj): the rooms to create the outer walls to.

ROOM BHATCH

It hatches all the outer walls of the rooms.

ROOM BREAK

ROOM BREAK <room> ENTER

It deletes the hatching of the outer walls of the selected rooms.

room (obj): the room to change its walls

ROOM XFORM

It turns every surveyed wall into single walls. Every room in the drawing has to dispose of outer walls. The program needs a confirmation because it's an irreversible transformation.

ROOM SHORTLIST

This command turns on displaying the id of the walls in every room.

ROOM DELVAR

This command turns off displaying the id of the walls in every room.

ROOM NUMLENGTH

This command turns on displaying the length of the walls in every room.

ROOM DELETEPAR