Overview of how RogCAD works:
The following few seconds of data entry in RogCAD's
preformatted editing area produces a simple house:
min max
x,y,z x, y, z
AUTOCUBE40: 0,0,0 20,30,8 (a cubic shape)
STANDARD:
1 10,0,12 (the two points defining
2 10,30,12 the peak of the roof)
LINEG1: (the lines connecting the
1,2 1,408 1,402 2,406 2,404 roof peak points to each
other and to the cube)
This pavillion was generated by a user typing the following numbers into RogCAD's preformatted editing area: First, define a string of autocubes for the left hand beams and for the horizontal beams: x1 y1 z1 x6 y6 z6 spacing endcube rot,col AUTOCUBE00: 0 -10 0 .3 -9 6.75 7 8 0,6 AUTOCUBE20: 0 -8 6.75 .3 0 7.75 7 28 0,6 AUTOCUBE40: 0 -6 8.1 0 6 8.75 7 48 0,6 Next, skew and tilt the autocubes to their proper shape and position:
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first last tranx trany tranz 202 358 0 -1 -.75 208 358 0 -1 -.75 204 354 0 0 5.25 206 356 0 0 5.25 203 353 0 0 5.25 205 355 0 0 5.25 402 552 0 1 0 408 558 0 1 0 404 554 0 -1 0 406 556 0 -1 0 2 152 0 1 .25 8 158 0 1 .25 4 154 0 1 0 6 156 0 1 0 |
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Rotate a copy of the left hand beams to create a mirror image: first last zangle tranx trany tranz 1 358 180 56.3 0 0 Define vertices of the roof sections: STANDARD: 1 0,-9,7 2 56.3,-9,7 3 0,0,13 4 56.3,0,13 5 0,9,7 6 14,9,7 7 28,0,13 Define the perimeter lines of the roof sections: LINEG1: 1,2 3,4 5,6 6,7 Define the planes for the roof sections: AUTOPLANE: 1 1,2,3,4 2 5,6,3,7
This boat was generated by a user typing the following numbers into RogCAD's preformatted editing area. (Note that most of this data is simply repeated from one line to the next. The only adjustments are the x and y radius, the z offset and the stretch.)
radius offset weight
start arc X Y X Y Z left, inc stretch
B1:
90.0, 160.0, 18.00, 43.00, 0, 0, 7.0, -90, 2.6, -3.6
T1:
90.0, 160.0, 18.00, 44.00, 0, 0, 8.0, -90, 2.6, -4.0
B2:
90.0, 160.0, 17.33, 41.00, 0, 0, 5.0, -90, 2.6, -3.2
T2:
90.0, 160.0, 18.00, 43.00, 0, 0, 7.0, -90, 2.6, -3.6
B3:
90.0, 160.0, 16.00, 39.00, 0, 0, 3.0, -90, 2.6, -2.8
T3:
90.0, 160.0, 17.33, 41.00, 0, 0, 5.0, -90, 2.6, -3.2
B4:
90.0, 160.0, 14.00, 37.50, 0, 0, 1.5, -90, 2.6, -2.4
T4:
90.0, 160.0, 16.00, 39.00, 0, 0, 3.0, -90, 2.6, -2.8
B5:
90.0,160.0, 11.33, 36.00, 0, 0, 0, -90, 2.6, -2
T5:
90.0,160.0, 14.00, 37.50, 0, 0, 1.5, -90, 2.6, -2.4
B6:
90.0,160.0, 8.33, 35.00, 0, 0, -1, -90, 2.6, -1.6
T6:
90.0, 160.0, 11.33, 36.00, 0, 0, 0, -90, 2.6, -2
B7:
90.0, 160.0, 4.67, 34.00, 0 , 0 , -2, -90, 2.6, -1.2
T7:
90.0, 160.0, 8.33, 35.00, 0 , 0 , -1, -90, 2.6, -1.6
B8:
90.0, 160.0, .33, 33.00, 0 , 0 , - 3, -90, 2.6, -.8
T8:
90.0, 160.0, 4.67, 34.00, 0 , 0 , -2, -90, 2.6, -1.2
See the Gallery page to see other examples of simple RogCAD output.
Artists, Architects and Designers
Let RogCAD get your perspective right before you do your artwork. You can use RogCAD in its most basic form (see first example on this page) to provide yourself with a simple perspectively correct wireframe model of your object, which you can then print out and paint over with your water colors. Just a couple minutes of assigning xyz coordinate values for the key vertices of your structure, then "connecting the dots" with RogCAD's line assignment routine will result in a simple rotatable wireframe model, with an unlimited number of camera realistic perspective options.