Re: [papercreters] Re: 16 sided house

Greetings,
The layout is easy to get from autocad, but not the amount of material
needed. A spreadsheet that would give those numbers would be very useful.

Bright Blessings,
Garth & Kim Travis
www.TheRoseColoredForest.com
Bedias, Texas

On 11/8/2012 8:19 AM, JayH wrote:
> You wouldn't need to keep the center post.
>
> I only mentioned the center point as a very useful reference point while
> doing layout to get all the corners exactly in position properly. For
> layout on the ground, a simple stake driven in the center to tie a
> string compass too is more than sufficient, as long as the string is
> free to rotate around the stake and not wind itself on the stake
> shortening itself as you work your way around the building marking
> things out.
>
> Whether you use a center post to hold up the roof is a completely
> separate issue for whatever style of roof you choose.
>
> I'll see what I can dig up this weekend looking for that spreadsheet.
> The hard drive crashed on the computer I built that spreadsheet on, but
> I have backups. The trick will be finding it on the backups and loading
> onto another machine where I can get to it.
>
> Either that or I can just recreate the entire spreadsheet.
>
> Like I said, the math isn't exactly proving Einstein's theory of
> relativity. It's straight forward calculations. A little trigonometry,
> but mostly just basic algebra. The big advantage of the spreadsheet is
> that it takes all of the extremely tedious math and make it simple,
> fast, and accurate. In seconds you can play around with the design
> parameters for various different structures and see how the building is
> affected, particularly in the quantities of materials required.
>
> Of course, now that you mention your roof, I find myself contemplating a
> spreadsheet that would help people with the same kinds of calculations
> concerning reciprocal roofs. I suspect such a calculator would be
> enlightening.
>
> --- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:papercreters%40yahoogroups.com>, Garth & Kim Travis <gartht@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > Greetings,
> > The spreadsheet sounds wonderful. Some of the information I already
> > have, since I design using autocad. But, I am not really proficient in
> > using the program, so a spread sheet would be nice.
> >
> > The center post is gone. Now I know I don't have to use one, the house
> > will be so much nicer for here in the south. A cupola, that opens as
> > heat chimney and that is mirrored for diffused lighting in the middle of
> > the building is far more useful than a large fireplace, to us.
> >
> > We will be building in a rocket stove along the north wall, to keep us
> > warm, but cooling is so much more important for our climate.
> >
> > Bright Blessings,
> > Garth & Kim Travis
> > www.TheRoseColoredForest.com
> > Bedias, Texas
> >
> > On 11/7/2012 9:59 AM, JayH wrote:
> > > Dag nabit.
> > >
> > > Now you went and got me frustruated.
> > >
> > > Why? Because I had built a nice custom spreadsheet from scratch a few
> > > years back for the explicit purpose of doing all the detailed math
> > > calculations for constructing a building of any type of regular
> > > equilateral polygon.
> > >
> >
>
>
>
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