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05-07-2007, 11:10 PM #1Registered User Promoted
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Arranging Auditorium Seating
Hi Guys, please can you help. I am trying to find a "quick" solution in arranging chairs in a church plan in a "Semi Circle" around a podium.
I've tried using "transform/Replicate Object" but this has got me pulling out hairs...
any ideas...
thankyou
Warren
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05-08-2007, 03:03 AM #2
Warren:
Are you doing all the seating at once or in sections ?
JUst a thought ....
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05-08-2007, 03:26 AM #3
Are you using X1?
The new multi copy tool function would be great for this...........
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05-08-2007, 03:54 AM #4Registered User Promoted
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I am using v10.04.
What I did was replicate a single chair 10x in YAxis so
I had 1 column of chairs, I then grouped them and replicated them and rotated each column by 5 or so degrees to the first row of chairs were sitting armrest to armrest. but as you move further from the first chair to the last chair in the column the spaces between the columns increase. for example the first row contained 10 chairs the last row I can fit in 33 chairs. but it is quite time consuming to rotate each chair by 1 degree and then line them up armrest to armrest.
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05-08-2007, 04:00 AM #5Registered User Promoted
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You need and array command about a central intersecting point.. to create a "fan" of chairs.. go suggest it... maybe in X2
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05-08-2007, 04:00 AM #6
I had done this years ago in autocad, using a polar array - perhaps that may be the way to go if you have acad, then import all the chairs?
Good luck...John
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05-08-2007, 04:04 AM #7Registered User Promoted
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I tried to raise my hands to prevent all this stuff going over my head but it is now embedded in the wall behind me...
I have never used ACAD before, but can the file be imported into CA..?
I thought this was going to be tricky. thanks for the replies...
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05-08-2007, 05:05 AM #8
What version do you have?
It is easy to do...........
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05-08-2007, 05:17 AM #9Registered User Promoted
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Originally Posted by Boonew
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05-08-2007, 05:31 AM #10
v10.04? There is a free update on to v10.08
However, I don't think this is going to be all that easy. What you will need to do is place 1 chair in each row and then replicate a number of copies at a given angle relative to a central point. Each row will require a slightly differnet angle.
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05-08-2007, 05:44 AM #11
Joe has the idea.
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05-08-2007, 05:53 AM #12
Sorry,missed the 10.04..
I used an arch to place a row for reference,deleted the arch.Blocked the seats and used the transform/replicate tool...........
Allen Colburn Jr.
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05-08-2007, 05:54 AM #13Registered User Promoted
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Louis I guess that's why your a Chief Guru, how did you do that...?
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05-08-2007, 06:00 AM #14Registered User Promoted
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Originally Posted by Allen42acj
you can see the seats on the left are replicated columns.
on the right the first row and last row I slipped in some extra seats using arcs as references...
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05-08-2007, 06:01 AM #15
Boonew,
Allen just gave you the answerRon Wentworth
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