First look at a TRIFORCE Open Joist floor:



https://www.openjoisttriforce.com/

There has been some call for this product line so I am working on the algorithms so that it can be configured properly.  It is a bit more complicated due to the directional nature of its trimming panel (only one end can be trimmed).

**Tutorial 18** - Moving Walls with Floors (9:17 min.)

Version 0.9.9r - 11.10.2024

• Added a "Sheathing" tab to the Global Settings.
• Added floor sheathing and ceiling gypsum parameters to the Sheathing tab of the Global Settings.
• Fixed a minor bug with the perimeter offset (wall mode) in the floor draw menu.

Two releases in one day, I'm running out of letters.

Version 0.9.9q - 11.10.2024
- Added a perimeter offset parameter within the edit menu for floors drawn in "Wall" mode.
- Added two "Wall Mode Options" to the Floors tab of the global settings: Perimeter Offset and Move Walls.
- Connected the "Move Floor Edge" tool to the Medeek Wall API so that moving floor edges (Wall Mode Only) can also move walls.
- Updated the Draw Flooring tool so that floor coverings can be applied to slabs, slab-on-grade foundations and floor trusses.

Version 3.7.6 - 11.09.2024
- Enabled the following method within the Medeek Wall API: wall_move
- Updated the Medeek Wall API to allow the instance name of a wall as an input.
- Added additional wall validation logic to the API.

I'm updating the API so that one can either enter in the actual group of the wall assembly or just the instance name of the wall assembly.

In order to regen a wall:

QuoteMedeek_Engineering_Inc_Extensions::MedeekWallPlugin::Wall::MedeekMethods.wall_regen 'instance_name'

Where the instance name is the wall assembly name (ie. RECT_WALL_ASSEMBLY_2024110823301222 ).

QuoteMedeek_Engineering_Inc_Extensions::MedeekWallPlugin::Wall::MedeekMethods.wall_regen 'RECT_WALL_ASSEMBLY_2024110823301222'

I will also be adding a new API method for moving walls.  Note that this method essentially fires up the move wall tool but without the interface or tool, a positive delta-y (float) moves the wall inward and a negative delta-y (float) moves the wall outward.

QuoteMedeek_Engineering_Inc_Extensions::MedeekWallPlugin::Wall::MedeekMethods.wall_move 'instance_name', delta-y

An example call might look like:

QuoteMedeek_Engineering_Inc_Extensions::MedeekWallPlugin::Wall::MedeekMethods.wall_move 'RECT_WALL_ASSEMBLY_2024110916480984', 48

Note that the delta-y is the amount to move in or out in inches.

Here is an example of moving a wall with the `wall_move` method using the Medeek Wall API:



There is not a lot of people using the API, at least not that I am aware of, but what this does it open up the possibility for the other Medeek extensions (and any other extension) to interact with these walls and adjust them as required.

As requested here is the edit menu with an offset parameter added to the Perimeter Options:

Version 0.9.9p - 11.08.2024
- Added a "Wall" draw mode to the floor draw tool.
- Enabled "Perimeter Options" within the edit menu of the floor tool.

Tutorial 17 - Linking Floors and Walls (11:09 min.)



I apologize I got so interested and focused on the wall draw mode for floors that I completely forgot about the updates I made to allow for drawing floor coverings on slab etc...  I will drop those updates into the very next release which will probably be this weekend.

Version 0.9.9o - 11.07.2024
- Added a Material X-Offset parameter for the floor covering material.
- Added a Material Y-Offset parameter for the floor covering material.
- Added a Material Rotation parameter for the floor covering material.





I will probably add in the same offsets and rotation parameters for the underlayment as well, but I will hold off for now until it is requested.  I really want to get back onto the floor opening tool.

Version 0.9.9n - 11.06.2024
- Enabled "Openings Options" within the edit menu of the floor covering tool.

Tutorial 16 - Floor Coverings with Openings in Walls (7:59 min.)

Tutorial 15 - Floor Coverings with Walls (11:47 min.)

Please post any ideas, suggestions or other thoughts you may have on the Floor plugin and what direction you think I should go on specific features.  I will also try to post my own ideas and future plans and concepts I am working on or considering.

Quote from: Daniel Gates on November 03, 2024, 05:51:56 PMEverything you do is awesome and ultimately bringing so much value to your extension, but if you could add a forum chat "next step/improvement" here to inform us of what you are thinking of doing next and if you want to chat some idea over, we can all get together beforehand to help you hopefully save time and resources before you even do any coding?

Please add a new thread within this board for any suggestions or questions you may have, you should be able to do that once you are a registered user. 

Version 0.9.9m - 11.04.2024

- Added a "Wall" draw mode to the floor covering draw tool.
- Enabled "Perimeter Options" within the edit menu of the floor covering tool.



When drawing floor coverings you can now toggle between polyline, face or wall mode.  Wall mode will allow you to select any number of Medeek walls (in logical order) which will define the boundary or perimeter of the floor covering.  At first I was going to make this a fire-and-forget type of draw mode but instead it makes sense to retain the association even after the initial floor covering is created.

If any of the walls are deleted or somehow the "link" is broken the floor covering assembly will resort back to its "point" mode and the save points generated by the walls.  So it will or should fail gracefully in these cases.  Also note that there is a wall side associated with each wall assembly, this can easily be changed from EXT to INT or vice versa as needed.

I will make a new tutorial video showing this increased functionality and it should further help explain how this new system works and how to use it.  I've been testing this feature for almost five days now so I think it is fairly robust but I am sure there may be specific cases that may defeat my algorithms.  Bottom line, this is brand new so proceed with some caution.