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Travelodge container hotel opens in Uxbridge, UK

Travelodge, the budget hotel company, have completed their first recycled hotel made out of shipping containers. The 86 containers used in the Uxbridge hotel were prepared in China with plasterboard walls, electrics and bathrooms already in place before being shipped to the UK, stacked and assembled like lego pieces. The containers are simply bolted together and once installed at the site, windows are fitted, the modules are decorated and furnished, and then the exterior of the building is cladded.

The steel containers used were two different sizes and allowed for 120 rooms and a Bar/Cafe to be installed. The containers are fully re-useable and can simply be disassembled and shipped off to the next location if necessary.

Verbus Systems - a joint business venture between consulting engineers, Buro Happold and constructor, George & Harding has developed its unique modular construction system over the last four years. The design innovation is being considered a revolution for temporary accommodation at festivals and major sporting events due to the ease and speed in which the buildings can be taken apart and reassembled.

A traditional 100-bed hotel costs Travelodge around £5 million to build. Construction using shipping containers reduces costs by up to 10 per cent, making the bill for a hotel of the same size around £4.5 million. Using Verbus Modules also shaves approximately 25% off construction time, meaning a 100-bed hotel can be built in 30 weeks, instead of 40. Travelodge plan to build half of all future hotels this way and a second container hotel is already under construction at Heathrow and due to complete at the end of the year.

Customizing the ribbon is similar to customizing a toolbar, but you need to be aware of the special structure of the ribbon.

1. Choose Tools tab> Customization panel> User Interface, or just type cui on the command line.

Tip: If you display the tab you want to work on and type cui on the command line, you can see that tab as you work– just move the Customize User Interface dialog box. In fact, if you click the title of the panel you want to work on and click the Pin icon, you can keep even the bottom section open as you work. (Unfortunately, the bottom section collapses when you click Apply.)

1. In the Customization in All CUI Files pane, expand the Ribbon Panels item.
2. Expand the panel where you want to add your command. You’ll see several rows. Expand one or more rows that you might want to look at. Here you see the Draw-2D panel open with several of its rows. To the left, you can see the expanded panel itself.

Note: One new concept is the sub-panel. Sub-panels are a way of compartmentalizing commands for layout purposes. On the Draw-2D panel, there’s a sub-panel after the LINE command to separate that command from the rest. Also, each panel comes with a panel separator. Rows below the panel separator don’t show until you click the panel name; they’re in the lower, expanded section.

Caution: Remember to back up your original menu file in case you make a mistake! The file is acad.cui. The location may vary, so use the OPTIONS command and click the Files tab. Open the Customization Files item to find the location. When you find the file, use Windows Explorer to back it up. Another option is to use Windows Explorer to make a copy first, rename the copy, and load the copy. Use the CUILOAD command to first unload the main acad.cui file, then browse to your copy and load that.

1. Decide which changes you want to make. I added a custom command and moved existing commands around to better suit how often I use them. Don’t make the panel too wide, because you need to leave room for the rest of the panels. If you make a panel too wide, others will be condensed and you won’t see all of their contents.
2. To move existing commands, drag them from one location to another. (Sometimes this doesn’t always seem to work on the first try; try another location, or delete the command and drag it from the Command List to the new location.) To delete a command, right-click and choose Remove.
3. To add a different or custom command, locate it in the Command List at the lower-left corner of the dialog box. Then drag it to the desired location.
4. To delete a sub-panel, drag its contents to another location, right-click it, and choose Delete. Sub-panels do a nice job of setting off buttons, but they create blank space that you might want to use.
5. When you’ve made a few changes and want to see how they look, click the Apply button and wait while AutoCAD reloads the menu.

Note: The panel preview at the upper-left corner of the dialog box isn’t completely accurate, so don’t rely on it completely. For example, my preview showed the LINE command with a large icon, but it shows as a standard-sized icon on my ribbon. You can set the size in the Properties panel.

1. When you’re done, click OK. Here you can see my new menu. I’ve added a custom 1LINE command (line \\;) which ends the LINE command after one line. I’ve also moved the existing buttons around and banished some to below the panel separator.

Oslo-based studio Various Architects have designed a mobile venue for a five-screen cinematic performance, to be set up in different locations around the world.

The venue consists of inflatable outer walls surrounding a central aluminium stage-structure.

Designed to accommodate a performance that incorporates five cinema screens and live dancers, the 90 x 60 structure has a capacity of 3500 standing spectators.

The mobile venue will be built in 2009 and will tour with the production “ID - Identity of the Soul” by Arts Alliance Productions.

Here’s some more information from the architects:

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The Mobile Performance Venue (MPV) will represent Arts Alliance Productions and their performance “ID - Identity of the Soul” worldwide in 2009. ID is a five-screen cinematic performance based on Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s epic poem Terje Vigen and Mahmoud Darwish’s poem A Soldier Dreams of White Lillies. Associative images of the poem, interspersed with filmed images of an actor presenting it are projected onto five 12mx7m HD-video screens. Live dancers perform in front of, behind, and between the screens throughout the show.

The client brief for the project is for a lightweight and easily transportable venue that meets their technical requirements for projection screens and surround sound system, while also creating a unique and iconic structure. The current design (end of schematic design phase) makes the MPV the largest mobile venue in the world.

The dynamic oval form is 90m x 60m, ranges from 10m to 17m tall, and has 3900m2 of covered space. The central performance space (2000m2) will hold a standing audience of 3500 people.

Optional configurations include optional stadium seating and conversion of the central screen to a stage for live performances. The project is divided into 20 structural segments which allow varying configurations ranging from 2000 to 3900 m2 total area if needed.

The public plaza is formed by an arcade of open hexagons at ground level that mark a clear entrance to the otherwise closed form. This plaza contains all of the necessary front-of-house functions such as ticketing, cloak room, and restrooms.

A mezzanine area above can be used for refreshments, catering, exhibition, or VIP functions. The back-of-house skin has a more complex and closed pattern. This serves to protect the projectors, sound systems, personell, and dancers behind the screens.

Sustainability is a difficult and complex topic for a project of this size that requires transport. Our main goal was to make the structure as lightweight and compact as possible to reduce shipping weight and volume. One example of this is the self-supporting PVC skin of hexagonal inflated tubes and cushions that form the front-of-house and back-of-house spaces. The specified fire resistant PVC fabric is durable and 100% recyclable.

An extremely efficient ‘bicycle wheel’ truss provides lateral stability for the project and full or partial coverage of the performance space. Supported by standard aluminum staging components this structure is also lightweight and recyclable.

Optional mesh or solid pvc covers would provide shade in hot dry climates or rain protection in wet ones. The central oculus can also be covered with an inflatable cap. Water tank foundations remove the need to transport heavy weights. The entire project can be transported in 30 standard 40’ containers (20 if roof is omitted). The structure requires 2 weeks for assembly and one week for disassembly. This estimate is conservative, but represents an extremely low shipping volume for a structure of this size.

The following design principles have driven the development of the concept:

In this tutorial, I’ll explain the steps for creating a new toolbar using the Customize User Interface dialog box. This dialog box is new for 2006 and the method of customizing toolbars, menus, etc. is very different from previous releases.

1. Choose Tools>Customize>Interface, or type cui on the command line.
2. Click the drop-down list at the top of the Customize User Interface dialog box and choose custom.cui. This is a partial customization file and lets you create a toolbar without fiddling with your main menu file.

3. Right-click the Toolbars item in the main panel of the dialog box and choose New>Toolbar.

4. The new toolbar, named Toolbar1, appears under the Toolbars item. It is selected, so immediately rename it.

5. To see the toolbar in the drawing area, click Apply. It’s very small, because it doesn’t have any buttons yet.

5. The easiest way to add a button is to drag a command from the Command List panel at the bottom-left section of the dialog box. However, the AutoCAD commands don’t all appear because you are now working with the Custom partial customization file. From the drop-down list at the top of the dialog box, choose All Customization Files.
6. Unfortunately, this collapses the new toolbar that you created on the list. To find it again in the top pane, double-click Partial CUI Files, then double-click CUSTOM, then double-click Toolbars. You should now see your new toolbar.
7. From the Categories drop-down list in the Commands List pane, make sure that All Commands is chosen.
8. Scroll down to a command that you want to add (they’re alphabetical) and click it. Tip: You can type the first letter of the command to jump to the first command starting with that letter.
9. Drag the command up to your toolbar, until you see a small left arrow pointing to your toolbar. Then release the mouse button. This adds the command to your toolbar.

5. Continue to drag commands. You can drag them above or below the first button.

6. You can create your own button if the command you want to use doesn’t have one. For example, the ALIGN doesn’t have a toolbar button. To create a button, select the command in the upper pane of the dialog box. Then click the Edit button in the Button Image section.

5. Use the Button Editor to edit an existing button or create one from scratch. To edit an existing button, click one of the buttons in the Button Image section. Use the tools at the top and pick a color along the side to draw. Use the Eraser tool to erase.
6. When you’re done, click Save As and save the button as a BMP file. Remember the location! Click Close to exit the Button Editor. Here’s my ALIGN button.
7. To assign the image to the button, click the Small Image item in the Properties pane. Click the Ellipsis button and browse to your BMP file.
8. To create a new, custom command, click the New button in the Command List section.
9. In the Properties section, complete the command name, a description, and the menu macro. Choose an image or create one in the Button Editor.
10. You’ll see the new command on the Command List. Drag it to your toolbar.
11. Click Apply to see the toolbar. You may need to move the dialog box. If you like it, click Close. Otherwise, make any desired adjustments. Here’s my final toolbar, enlarged. It contains buttons for the EXTRUDE, REGION, and ALIGN commands and a custom command that uses the ROTATE3D command to rotate the selected object around the X axis.

Customizing the ribbon is similar to customizing a toolbar, but you need to be aware of the special structure of the ribbon.

For some basics on using the Customize User Interface dialog box, see my earlier tip, “Create a custom toolbar in AutoCAD 2006 or later.” If you’re interested in creating custom commands, also see “Tutorial: Create a custom command.” This tutorial builds on those skills, but is complete in itself.

1. Choose Tools tab> Customization panel> User Interface, or just type cui on the command line.

Tip: If you display the tab you want to work on and type cui on the command line, you can see that tab as you work– just move the Customize User Interface dialog box. In fact, if you click the title of the panel you want to work on and click the Pin icon, you can keep even the bottom section open as you work. (Unfortunately, the bottom section collapses when you click Apply.)

2. In the Customization in All CUI Files pane, expand the Ribbon Panels item.
3. Expand the panel where you want to add your command. You’ll see several rows. Expand one or more rows that you might want to look at. Here you see the Draw-2D panel open with several of its rows. To the left, you can see the expanded panel itself.

Note: One new concept is the sub-panel. Sub-panels are a way of compartmentalizing commands for layout purposes. On the Draw-2D panel, there’s a sub-panel after the LINE command to separate that command from the rest. Also, each panel comes with a panel separator. Rows below the panel separator don’t show until you click the panel name; they’re in the lower, expanded section.

Caution: Remember to back up your original menu file in case you make a mistake! The file is acad.cui. The location may vary, so use the OPTIONS command and click the Files tab. Open the Customization Files item to find the location. When you find the file, use Windows Explorer to back it up. Another option is to use Windows Explorer to make a copy first, rename the copy, and load the copy. Use the CUILOAD command to first unload the main acad.cui file, then browse to your copy and load that.

4. Decide which changes you want to make. I added a custom command and moved existing commands around to better suit how often I use them. Don’t make the panel too wide, because you need to leave room for the rest of the panels. If you make a panel too wide, others will be condensed and you won’t see all of their contents.
5. To move existing commands, drag them from one location to another. (Sometimes this doesn’t always seem to work on the first try; try another location, or delete the command and drag it from the Command List to the new location.) To delete a command, right-click and choose Remove.
6. To add a different or custom command, locate it in the Command List at the lower-left corner of the dialog box. Then drag it to the desired location.
7. To delete a sub-panel, drag its contents to another location, right-click it, and choose Delete. Sub-panels do a nice job of setting off buttons, but they create blank space that you might want to use.
8. When you’ve made a few changes and want to see how they look, click the Apply button and wait while AutoCAD reloads the menu.

Note: The panel preview at the upper-left corner of the dialog box isn’t completely accurate, so don’t rely on it completely. For example, my preview showed the LINE command with a large icon, but it shows as a standard-sized icon on my ribbon. You can set the size in the Properties panel.

9. When you’re done, click OK. Here you can see my new menu. I’ve added a custom 1LINE command (line \\;) which ends the LINE command after one line. I’ve also moved the existing buttons around and banished some to below the panel separator.

Conclusion: The ribbon has some great things going for it. I liked the Dashboard (which is now completely gone), especially for 3D work, because it put a lot of related commands together in one place, along with controls for adjusting settings. The ribbon does something similar. The Home tab is supposed to contain 80% of the commands you need for everyday work, but I still don’t like the tab concept. By their very nature, tabs hide tools that I need to use. I’ve seen this in Office (I absolutely can’t write my books in Word 2007 because of the poor controls for styles–but I’m digressing.)

The Quick Access toolbar

The only toolbar in the 2D Drafting & Annotation and 3D Modeling workspaces is the Quick Access toolbar. This is also a copy of the Office 2007 setup. You can customize the commands on this toolbar; right-click it and choose Customize Quick Access Toolbar.

Tip: Right-click the Quick Access toolbar and choose Toolbars>AutoCAD to see the entire list of toolbars and display those that you can’t do without.

Conclusion: The Quick Access toolbar is necessary because its tools are no longer visible on the ribbon. These are basic tools like starting a new drawing, opening a drawing, plotting, undoing, and redoing. The Undo and Redo buttons no longer show their history, which is a loss.

The Menu Browser

Beneath the A is a complete menu. It’s just organized vertically instead of horizontally and so it takes up less space. The menu itself hasn’t changed much, so you can generally find the commands you need in their familiar location.

However, the menu browser has added a few tricks:

• A search box where you can search for commands

• You can see open documents (which you can also do with the new Quick View Drawings feature, see below)

• You can see your recent actions and easily repeat them

• You can sort recent documents by name, date, or type, and see thumbnails

• At the bottom is a button to open the Options dialog box (this is also very Office-like)

Conclusion: I like the menu browser. It’s one more click to open it, but it fits the entire menu into the space of an “A.” The search feature is also helpful.

Quick View

You can quickly switch between open drawings and even their layouts, using the thumbnails as a guide. The Quick View Drawings button is on the status bar; just click it to display the thumbnails. Then click the thumbnail to display the drawing or layout.

Conclusion: An easy way to switch between drawings, and even directly switch to the layout of your choice.

Quick Properties and Rollover Properties

When you select an object, the Quick Properties window pops up, showing a few of the most important properties. Hover the cursor over the window and it expands slightly to show a few more properties. You can use the window as a quick Properties palette, to view or change properties. You can turn it off and customize which properties appear in it. You can even customize which objects display the QP window when selected, using the CUI command.

When you hover the cursor over an object without selecting it, the Rollover Properties window appears, which is a baby version of the Quick Properties window. This one is just for information; you can’t change the properties.

Conclusion: Some people will find the Quick Properties window annoying, but I’ve grown to like it. The same goes for the Rollover Properties window. It might get in your way, but it can be helpful, too.

ShowMotion

ShowMotion is a new take on the old VSLIDE and script combination. You can create shots, which are views of your drawing. You can then play them back, to create a presentation that displays the various views of your drawing.

Shots can be still, cinematic, or motion path. A cinematic shot offers some preset motion choices such as panning and zooming in or out. A recorded walk lets you walk through a model by dragging.

Conclusion: This is a nice idea, but the transitions between shots are not smooth, as you can see by looking at the video. You can fade into a shot or cut to it, but it doesn’t seem to matter. I also find the walking hard to control. Maybe I’m just not cut out to be a movie director.

View Cube

The View Cube is a new way to quickly change your view in 3D models. You can just click on the view that you want, or you can click and drag the view cube to make finer adjustments. Do you remember the tripod and compass, which was the first interactive way to change your viewpoint? No one uses that any more, because you can’t see your model as you use it. The View Cube replaces the tripod and compass, but is much easier to use.

Below the View Cube itself is a drop-down list that contains named views and saved UCS’s, so you can quickly restore one. You can right-click and specify settings, set a “Home” view, and switch between parallel and perspective views.

Conclusion: This is one of my favorite features of AutoCAD 2009. Simple and easy to use.

SteeringWheel

Yes, that’s one word. The SteeringWheel is a multi-function navigation device that follows your cursor. It’s really a menu of navigation commands. It comes in various configurations, large and small, as well as variations — full, view object, and tour building. Each wedge contains a different command:

• Zoom: A regular real-time zoom

• Rewind: Rewinds through previous views, showing thumbnails of each so you can pick the one you like

• Pan: A regular real-time pan

• Orbit: A regular constrained 3D Orbit

• Center: Lets you specify a pivot for orbiting

• Look: A regular 3D swivel

• Walk: A walk-through

• Up/Down: Slides the view along the Y axis of the screen (which is like being in an elevator).

To use a wedge, you click and drag.

Conclusion: I haven’t found the SteeringWheel to be highly useful. I can access Zoom, Pan, and Orbit more easily using just the mouse and the rest of the tools I don’t use very often. The mini-wheels are way too small for my eyes and I’d never remember which tool is where. I like the Rewind tool, though, and would like to see it on the status bar.

Action Recorder

Yes, you can now record actions and save them as macros. This is a long-requested feature. You can even add (afterwards) user prompts and messages. You can also edit the macros easily. You need to plan your macros carefully, to make sure that the drawing setup is the same that you’ll have when you use the macro. For example, if you use a palette to give a command, will it be open when you play back the macro? Sometimes, using command-line commands works better, so that the results are reminiscent of scripts. That’s because the macro recorder doesn’t record what happens inside dialog boxes. But of course, you don’t need to type out the exact commands and options when you record a macro, as you do with a script.

Here’s a macro that changes the current layer to OBJ and creates a circle with a radius of 3.2. You’d need to make sure that you have that layer available when playing back the macro. Note that the macro records the absolute center that I specified. But because I can change that to a request for user input, I can use that macro to create a 3.2-radius circle on layer OBJ anywhere in my drawing.

Macros are saved as ACTM files (another Office-2007-like feature), so you can share them with others.

Conclusion: It will take some thinking to make macros useful, but they have lots of potential.

Layer Properties Manager palette

The Layer Properties Manager is now a palette rather than a dialog box. This means that you can leave it open, auto-hide it, and dock it. You can access it more easily and layer changes occur instantly. No clicking OK!

Conclusion: I love it! (OK, to come clean, this was a feature that I asked for, although I’m sure others did too.)

Other new AutoCAD 2009 features

There are many more new features that I would consider to be minor, but one of these may just make your day:

• Export layout to model space: Exports objects on a layout to model space of a new drawing

• Geographic location: Sets a geographic location for a drawing. You can import data from Google Earth.

• Dynamic Xclip: Lets you grip-edit an xclip boundary

• eTransmit purge: You can purge drawings before eTransmitting them

• Find and Replace: You can find and replace text in blocks and xrefs, and you can use wildcard characters (such as * and ?)

• Wblock more easily: You can select a block and type w to start the WBLOCK command

• DWFx underlays: You can use DWFx files as underlays. DWFx is like DWF, but based on Microsoft’s XML Paper Specification format, which is included in Windows Vista. This lets Vista users view DWFx files without having any special software.

• DGN support: There’s now support for both V7 and V8 Microstation® DGN files. You can use DGN files as underlays, and import from and export to DGN format.

• AutoCAD 2009 is certified for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista

Scale Lists Revisited
In November 2007, January 2008, and March 2008, I described the many problems presented by AutoCAD 2008’s scale lists. The good news is that AutoCAD 2009 has addressed some of these problems:

• Inserting a drawing no longer brings in all the scales associated with that drawing, only those ones that are in use.
• If you open a drawing with more than 100 scales, AutoCAD 2009 prompts you to ask if you want to reset the drawing to the default scale list.
• If you open a drawing that has an attached xref containing more than 100 scales, a Command line message advises you of that fact.
• The scale list control contains a toggle that allows you to hide those scales that are inherited from xrefs. This toggle is on by default, meaning that you will not usually see the dreaded _XREF_XREF scales.
• The MEASUREMENT system variable, which is used to identify whether a drawing is metric, is no longer completely ignored. It is checked during a scale list reset, reducing the likelihood that metric users will see inch-based scales.
• The Scalelistedit dialog box now allows you to use the Delete button on multiple scales, even if one or more of the selected scales can’t be deleted. This makes it much easier to manually delete unused scales.
• The In a Bind About Scales bug is fixed, meaning you can remove unwanted scales without harming your xrefs.

These fixes largely are measures to hide problems rather than completely remove them, and therefore fall a bit short of the complete overhaul I was hoping for. However, Autodesk deserves credit for significantly reducing the harm caused by the AutoCAD 2008 scale list implementation.

Some Polylines Are Snappier than Others (2009)
Submitted by Chris Cowgill
As you recover from the shock of the new and start using AutoCAD 2009 for real work, you may notice that your object snaps don’t work on some polylines. This may seem random, but it’s not. For the problem to occur on a given polyline, three conditions must be met:

• It must be an old-fashioned “heavy” polyline, not a lightweight one. In Properties and Quick Properties, such a polyline is described as a 2D polyline rather than just a polyline. The List command describes it as a polyline object rather than an lwpolyline. This should not be confused with what Properties calls a 3D polyline, but List calls a polyline.
• It must have continuous linetype generation turned on. That’s the property of a polyline that tells AutoCAD to draw its linetypes based on the polyline as a whole, rather than on each individual segment.
• It must have a continuous linetype, whether that is based on the object’s layer or not.

That may seem like an unlikely combination, but it is more common than you might think. There are still third-party products and LISP routines that create or expect heavy polylines, so some users set the PLINETYPE system variable to 0 as soon as they receive a new AutoCAD. Similarly, many users set the PLINEGEN system variable to 1 in their templates or startup routines, because most people want their linetypes to go around corners in polylines. Such people are likely to have large numbers of drawings containing large numbers of polylines that meet all three conditions.

Workaround: There’s no way to persuade AutoCAD 2009 to snap to such objects, so you will need to change them such that not all of the three conditions are met. It’s unlikely you will want to change the linetype of the objects, so that just leaves the first two conditions to play with. You can convert the polylines from light to heavy using the undocumented Express Tools command Convertpoly. Alternatively, you can turn off continuous linetype generation in selected polylines using either the Properties palette or the Ltype gen option in the Express Tools command Mpedit.

Semitransparent Ribbon (2009)
One of the things that Autodesk’s Ribbon does better than Microsoft’s is offer you several options about minimizing the ribbon, or even doing away with it altogether. The main way in which you can choose between your ribbon minimize options is by picking a little oval button on the ribbon tab title bar. It’s a three-way toggle. Pick it once and the ribbon shrinks to show only the tab and panel titles. Pick it again and the panel titles vanish too. Pick it a third time and you’re back to a full ribbon again.

What’s wrong with this? Nothing, as long as you do it only between commands. If you do it transparently (i.e., while a command is active), it leaves the ribbon in a strange state.

Minimizing the ribbon during the Line command.
 

If the ribbon is in its tab-and-panel-title state, don’t be tempted to pick the little button to get at something in the ribbon. It won’t work properly, and you will end up with just a little sliver of ribbon visible. Instead, hover over a panel title to make the contents visible.

Workaround: None really, other than “don’t do that.” If you do happen to do it, just wait until the command is over, then pick the button again until the ribbon is fixed