Browse Forums Building A New House Re: My Virtual Home - support, ideas, tips and tricks 21Jun 22, 2007 6:36 am The survey pegs (start and end pegs) get moved to a known dimension.
Normally you would choose one dimension of the house (overall width or overall length) and set your survey pegs to that. MVH then does the scaling for you. Hope that helps Perry Re: My Virtual Home - support, ideas, tips and tricks 22Jun 22, 2007 10:13 am Thanks for the reply. I tried last night and got the scale right based on the dimensions on the floor plan. However when trying to place rooms on the floor plan based on the dimensions provided they did not line up with the floor plan.
Do most people use a floor plan image as the starting point or do you just start adding rooms? I have seen some very impressive designs using My Virtual Home in this forum, however I am unable to get the same results. Also I noticed that when I changed the camera view the floor plan and the rooms moved seperately. Is there anyway to attach the room to the floorplan image? Regards, NoviceBuilder Re: My Virtual Home - support, ideas, tips and tricks 23Jun 22, 2007 11:39 am Hi NoviceBuilder,
I've used MVH with both a floorplan, and without. Matt is a more experienced user than me, however I'll do my best for you. If the room dimensions as you measure in MVH on the floorplan are different to the published plan, then there are some possibilities: 1. Your floorplan isn't to scale - sometimes the plans published on the internet are not to scale 2. Perhaps you are looking at inside dimension in MVH and outside dimension on the plan? 3. Your survey pegs are slightly off. I've not had too many problems - is your plan a "real" plan drawn to scale? Regarding your second question, you can lock the floorplan in place once you've scaled it. You'll find it makes the process a bit easier. Cheers Perry Re: My Virtual Home - support, ideas, tips and tricks 24Jun 22, 2007 11:45 am Yes I tried using the floorplan as a guide but because MVH seems to measure room dimensions to the centre of walls and not the stud outers, the figures are slightly out. You need to compensate for this.
In the end I built my own plan up from individual rooms with known dimensions. Re: My Virtual Home - support, ideas, tips and tricks 25Jul 05, 2007 5:25 pm How do get MVH to do split levels? Re: My Virtual Home - support, ideas, tips and tricks 26Jul 05, 2007 6:36 pm I've found the split level stairs but how do you use them? Re: My Virtual Home - support, ideas, tips and tricks 28Jul 05, 2007 7:22 pm Yep, I can build a 2-storey house.. but I want to do a split level.
Specifically I want to draw this house.. http://www.clarendon.com.au/html3/desi_tri/sprw/flor.html Re: My Virtual Home - support, ideas, tips and tricks 29Jul 06, 2007 6:23 am Hi CM - Isn't that design a two storey? I know it says "tri/split level", but I'm only seeing one set of stairs to an upstairs floor.
Sigh. It's early. I must be missing something. Perry Re: My Virtual Home - support, ideas, tips and tricks 31Jul 06, 2007 11:10 am buh bow....
There is the first limitation I have found..... No Split level designs allowed. Re: My Virtual Home - support, ideas, tips and tricks 32Jul 06, 2007 11:18 am Ahhh cr@p!
Guess we'll just design each level individually. Re: My Virtual Home - support, ideas, tips and tricks 33Jul 06, 2007 2:28 pm ...and there I was, thinking it could do everything!
I was prompted yesterday to download an update. I couldn't see anything much new. I wish the landscape feature was available! Perry Re: My Virtual Home - support, ideas, tips and tricks 34Aug 05, 2007 9:13 pm My Virtual Home is a pretty powerful but frustrating to use program. I've been using it long enough now to learn a lot of tricks to make it work better. Built 1776 is quite stable and can produce some impressive results.
Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ To walk through this design the MyVirtualHome Homeshare Code is UJ00-3HMF. The design took about 4 hours worth of time to put together, but you can see clearly from the results what the program is capable of producing. Re: My Virtual Home - support, ideas, tips and tricks 36Aug 05, 2007 9:50 pm Law18 rooms must all properly join before the roof can grow properly. If you have any narrow gap between rooms the external walls will by default have a 600mm eave, which if projecting into an opposite eave will fail to grow. Make sure all rooms line up properly with no gaps. Re: My Virtual Home - support, ideas, tips and tricks 37Aug 12, 2007 10:26 pm Thanks HomeReview,
I just need to take a bit more time doing the plan to ensure the rooms connect up. I probably should have done the small part of the hallway first as it is the only part causing me all the grief. HomeReview do you know how to put in parapet walls above the roof line? Re: My Virtual Home - support, ideas, tips and tricks 38Aug 13, 2007 11:37 am Also keep in mind that you should be careful when making rooms that are not square. I call it MVH Cancer, where walls look like they line up but they don't, then when you go to adjust the room sizes it stuffs up the design. Sadly, if you get MVH Cancer the only practical way to fix it is to delete the rooms in question and rebuild them. Re: My Virtual Home - support, ideas, tips and tricks 40Aug 13, 2007 9:03 pm Fixing it up manually is quite dicey. You would be better off deleting the rooms in question and rebuilding them, painful as it is recreating the colour scheme and room configuration. 4 3750 Just be careful with building stability during construction, that is when the structure may be weakened, refer to your engineering drawings for stability methodology. 1 7231 Thank you so much. This has been very helpful. We definitely wish to settle and get these people out of our life. They are trying to charge us interest on late… 7 14282 |