dcscca Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Anybody have ideas how to model this wood and cable wire fence? (see attached pic) I've failed completely so far. I tried checking the pony wall button in the Wall Types tab of Fencing Specification and defining the upper and lower portions separately, but my choices seem to have no effect - I don't get a two-part fence to play with. I also tried using the Railing feature rather than Fencing, thinking I'd insert the cables separately after creating a railing /fence with an open space between the top of the panels and the top of the posts, but I can't figure out how to control the post height independently of the paneled section height. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcscca Posted July 9, 2015 Author Share Posted July 9, 2015 Whoops - the "attached pic" wasn't quite so attached in that last post. It's attached this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kbird1 Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 it is possible to get close , with more manual work to make the lower wood 1x6 and 1x3's rails you could do it no problem I think , I did this one with the Library cable rail AND the library Rail item ..ie I used two fences/railings and then two slabs to make the top 2x4 rail and 2x6 top cap. I did this in 2016 trial to make sure it works Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kbird1 Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 I like your Fence , so decided to add it to my Library along with the one shown above , so here it is for all to use : Cedar and Cable Fences.calibz these are made in X7 so only 2016 will be able to import them . (but see instructions below) let me know if it doesn't work as expected and I'll try to fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcscca Posted July 9, 2015 Author Share Posted July 9, 2015 Mick, thank you so much for your efforts - and great job, those fences you made are gorgeous! I tried to install them from your .calibz, but my HD Pro 2015 won't load them :-( ... I guess you must be using the HD 2016 version? I bet others will like having those models, in any case... and if/when I upgrade to 2016, I will import those for sure. In the meantime I created something that is not as elegant but more or less works (pics attached)... I did use your earlier suggestion to manually input several of the components instead of trying to get the built-in Fencing or Railing functions to do it for me. I used a soffit for the top rail, and the horizontal cylinder from the Geometric Shapes library for the cables. My result is not as elegant as yours, but I think it's nice enough to help the neighbors visualize what we'd like to do for a new fence down the property line.... Thank you again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kbird1 Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 I didn't notice you had 2015 sorry , I actually used X7 (same as 2016) to make the fence Symbol , Pro can't make Symbols unfortunately, but not sure my two fences are worth the $99 upgrade price The 1st one I posted is actually two fences stacked on each other , the trick is to check the box for retaining wall as well as railing for the lower part , this allows a second fence to be built on top , (normally it would be a stone fence for eg. with wrought iron on top) so bottom fence was 24" high with solid panels set to Rails>horizontal and the upper fence was set to 48" high with panels set to Cables , and the raise bottom rail setting at 24" too and I used 2 Slabs set to Cedar color for the top caps. the two fence technique is explain more in this Tutorial http://www.homedesignersoftware.com/support/article/KB-00996/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcscca Posted July 9, 2015 Author Share Posted July 9, 2015 Thanks again, Mick - that trick about how to place a fence on top of a fence was exactly what I needed. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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