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Drape Tool
Is there any video or information about what the "drape" tool does and how it is different than other tools? I understand it works with CAD to "drape" a picture or elevation over a grey model?
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RE: Drape Tool
There are a number of Drape tool functions that were discussed in recent Q&A Webinars. Assuming you have a Pro Account here on the School site, you can watch those webinar recordings here.
I would specifically recommend the recordings from 09/17/2009 and 10/15/2009.
In general, the drape tool was conceived as a way to help project landscape plans onto terrain models. the thing to keep in mind when try to use the drape tool for projecting CAD elevations onto a vertical face of a building, is that the drape tool only knows how to project edges onto faces along the Blue axis direction - so you would probably need to rotate the building and elevations before draping the edges in order to see any kind of result.
also, the drape tool doesn't do so well with CAD files that contain nested groups and components, so you would likely want to explode all of those artifacts within the CAD files before draping them onto the building.
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