Exterior Decorator - A TKE PowerTool for Punch!

Version 2.1.0

When one looks at residential architecture, one of the striking features that differentiates the more fashionable, exclusive homes from the rest is exterior detail. Most noticeable in older times, exterior detail establishes a homes credentials within a neighborhood, defines its character and may even say something about the family that lives in it.

Beside doors and windows, wall finish and roof, exterior details include items like columns, arches and keystones, lintels, extended window sills, cornerstones and quoins, and rake fascia. These sorts of decorations are often performed in stone or a stone substitute, but can be also executed with other materials, particularly when the idea is more decorative than structural.

Executing these items in Punch! is a little more challenging than the normal floors walls and roof, because they usually have to be fabricated in the 3D Workshop. Some are trivial to do there, and some are not. Most are not easily scalable from big to little, or from one width to a different one, or roof pitch.

The goal of the Exterior Decorator PowerTool is to provide a simple, easy-to-use way to create individual items in this class, and be able to create other scaled items that match as a group. In addition, some other kinds of common items (for example, 2D sheets to use as room flooring, wall covers, colorable ceilings (for Punch! versions before 7.5, when ceilings were white) and so on are created by this tool. There are bound to be lots of items that can be similarly created, and will become available in later updates to this product.

This PowerTool is very open-ended. I solicit any and all suggestions for extending the individual objects and adding others which can similarly be parametrically specified for inclusion in this tool. Email suggestions to TKE, and we will respond and perhaps incorporates your ideas. Sometimes we have been known to incorporate people's suggestions in our PowerTools and have an update available withing a couple of days, so don't hesitate.

Compatibility

Exterior Decorator, as of version 2.1.0, is fully compatible with all Punch! PowerTool-enabled versions through level 12.x, including AS5000-12 and Master Landscape Pro-12. See the Compatibility page for more details.

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